Germination and post-germination growth to carrot seedling emergence: Predictive threshold models and sources of variation between sowing occasions

New Phytologist

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 505-516

  Finch Savage, W E ^a   Steckel, J R A ^a   Phelps, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carrot (Daucus carota L.); Crop establishment; Germination; Hydrothermal time; Seedling emergence; Thermal time; Threshold models

Indexed keywords

GERMINATION; GROWTH; MODELING; ROOT VEGETABLE; SEEDLING EMERGENCE;

DAUCUS CAROTA;

EID: 0031878825     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1998.00208.x     Document Type: Article

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