Optimum Weed Removal Timing in Drilled Salad Onions and Transplanted Bulb Onions Grown in Organic and Conventional Systems

Biological Agriculture and Horticulture

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 191-201

  Bond, W ^a   Burston, S ^a   Bevan, J R ^b   Lennartsson, M E K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b Henry Doubleday Research Association   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC FARMING; WEED CONTROL;

ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 0032441254     PISSN: 01448765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01448765.1998.9755231     Document Type: Article

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