Effects of soil water potential on the nitrate content and the yield of lettuce

Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 235-243

  Aggelides, Sotiris ^a   Assimakopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Kerkides, Petros ^a   Skondras, Angelos ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CLAY; FOOD QUALITY; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LETTUCE; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; WATER CONTENT; WEIGHT;

LACTUCA;

EID: 0032935574     PISSN: 00103624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00103629909370199     Document Type: Article

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