Flowering and seed yield of lesquerella as affected by nitrogen fertilization and seeding rate

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-131

  Adamsen, Floyd J ^a   Coffelt, Terry A ^a   Nelson, John M ^b  

^a U S WATER CONSERVATION LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated flower counting; Digital images; Lesquerella fendleri

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; CULTIVATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; IRRIGATION; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; SEED;

FLOWERING;

CROPS;

FERTILIZER; FLOWERING;

LESQUERELLA; LESQUERELLA FENDLERI; PHOENIX;

EID: 0042849352     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6690(03)00039-6     Document Type: Article

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