High vapour pressure deficit influences growth, transpiration and quality of tomato fruits

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 84, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 285-296

  Leonardi, Cherubino ^a   Guichard, Soraya ^b   Bertin, Nadia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Growth; High vpd; Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.; Quality; Tomato; Transpiration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034608276     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4238(99)00127-2     Document Type: Article

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