Suaeda salsa, a desalinating companion plant for greenhouse tomato

HortScience

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 620-623

  Albaho, Mohammed S ^a,b   Green, James L ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KUWAIT INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Blossom end rot; Closed insulated pallet system; Desalination; Halophyte; Lycopersicon esculentum; Salinity; Seepweed

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; SUAEDA; SUAEDA SALSA;

EID: 0033930061     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.35.4.620     Document Type: Article

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