Effects of suboptimal low temperatures on plant architecture and flowering in muskmelons Cucumis melo L.

Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 640-646

  Ventura, Yvonne ^a   Mendlinger, Samuel ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD TOLERANCE; FLOWERING;

CUCUMIS MELO;

EID: 0031751728     PISSN: 14620316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14620316.1998.11511027     Document Type: Article

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