Off target ground deposits from spraying a semi-dwarf orchard

Crop Protection

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 565-570

  Vercruysse, Fangio ^a   Steurbaut, Walter ^a   Drieghe, Sabine ^b   Dejonckheere, Willy ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Medicine Evaluation Unit   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Air assisted sprayer; Deposition; Drift; Orchard

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033404336     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-2194(99)00060-5     Document Type: Article

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