Mechanical conditioning of tomato seedlings improves transplant quality without deleterious effects on field performance

HortScience

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 848-851

  Garner, Lauren C ^a,b   Björkman, Thomas ^a  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Height control; Lycopersicon esculentum; Mechanical conditioning

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0344172547     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.34.5.848     Document Type: Article

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