Distribution of urea-derived nitrogen supplied to apple leaves

HortScience

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1079-1081

  Khemira, Habib ^a,b   Righetti, Timothy L ^a   Azarenko, Anita N ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

15N; Fertilization; Malus xdomestica; Urea

Indexed keywords

LONCHOCARPUS CAPASSA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MALUS XDOMESTICA;

EID: 0032695249     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.34.6.1079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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