Performance of fall-sown onion cultivars using four seeding dates

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 472-478

  Cramer, Christopher S ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allium cepa; Bolting; Bulb maturity; Fusarium basal rot; Pink root; Scape production; Seedstalk production; Single centers; Yield

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM; ALLIUM CEPA; FUSARIUM;

EID: 0038208035     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.128.4.0472     Document Type: Article

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