Evaluation of tomato transplant production methods for improving establishment rates

HortScience

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 229-232

  Ciardi, Joseph A ^a   Vavrina, Charles S ^b   Orzolek, Michael D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chilling injury; Cold hardening; Ethephon; Hydretain; Lycopersicon esculentum; Pretransplant nutritional conditioning; Soluble carbohydrates

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0031971059     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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