Spray penetration into the citrus tree canopy from two air-carrier sprayers

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1287-1293

  Farooq, Muhammad ^a   Salyani, Masoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air blast; Airflow rate; Cotton ribbons; Deposition; Spray volume rate

Indexed keywords

ATOMIZERS; DEPOSITION; FLUOROMETERS; FORESTRY; NOZZLES; SPRAYING;

SPRAY PENETRATION;

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING;

CANOPY; PENETRATION; SPRAY; TREE;

CITRUS; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 0036767265     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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