Fruit size, mineral composition and quality of trickle-irrigated tomatoes as affected by potassium rates

Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-25

  Rezende Fontes, Paulo Cezar ^a   Sampaio, Regynaldo Arruda ^b   Finger, Fernando Luiz ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RORAIMA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acidity; Lycopene; Lycopersicon esculentum; Soluble solids

Indexed keywords

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0347056962     PISSN: 0100204X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0100-204x2000000100003     Document Type: Article

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