Diurnal temperature variation of the root and shoot affects yield of greenhouse tomato

HortScience

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-51

  Gent, M P N ^a   Ma, Y Z ^b  

^a Connecticut Agric Exp Station ^*  (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DIF; Earliness; Fruit size; Lycopersicon esculentum; Root zone heating

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0031894598     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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