Responses of 'little leaf' vs. normal cucumber to planting density and chlorflurenol

HortScience

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 816-818

  Nerson, Haim ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cucumis sativus; Mechanical harvest; Pickling cucumber

Indexed keywords

CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 0031880672     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.33.5.816     Document Type: Article

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