Earliness and yield of tropical winter squash improved by transplants, plastic mulch, and row cover

HortScience

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 203-206

  Rulevich, Matthew T ^a   Mangan, Francis X ^a   Carter, Anne K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Butternut; Calabaza; Cucurbita moschata; Polyethylene mulch; Spun bonded polyester

Indexed keywords

FRUITS; POLYESTERS; POLYETHYLENES; SEED; SOILS;

ROW COVERS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

FRUITS; PLANTS; POLYESTERS; POLYETHYLENE; SEEDING; SEEDS; SOIL; TRANSPLANTATION;

CUCURBITA MAXIMA; CUCURBITA MOSCHATA; JUGLANS CINEREA;

EID: 0038814821     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.38.2.203     Document Type: Article

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