Plant population affects yield and fruit size of pumpkin

HortScience

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1076-1078

  Reiners, Stephen ^a   Riggs, Dale I M ^b,c  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^b Albany Regional Office ^*  (United States)

^c Stone Wall Hill Farm   (United States)

Author keywords

Cucurbita pepo; Plant density

Indexed keywords

CUCURBITA PEPO; PEPO;

EID: 0032694594     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.34.6.1076     Document Type: Conference Paper

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