Improving irrigation water use in container nurseries

HortTechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 8-12

  Mathers, Hannah M ^a   Yeager, Thomas H ^b   Case, Luke T ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Application efficiency; Cyclic irrigation; Irrigation scheduling

Indexed keywords

EID: 11244251036     PISSN: 10630198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/horttech.15.1.0008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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