Fresh-market tomato gas exchange, biomass, and fruit yield are similar with legume cover crops or synthetic nitrogen fertilizer

HortScience

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 209-213

  Whitehead, W F ^a   Singh, B P ^a  

^a FORT VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cover crop; Gas exchange; Leaf area index; Legume; Nitrogen fertilization; Nonlegume; Tomato production

Indexed keywords

FRUITS; GROUNDWATER; HEALTH HAZARDS; INVESTMENTS; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOILS;

DRY WEIGHT; GAS EXCHANGE (GE); LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI); RESIDUAL SOIL;

CROPS;

FERTILIZERS; GROUND WATER; HEALTH; INVESTMENT; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOIL; TOMATOES;

ANIMALIA; LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PENSTEMON NEWBERRYI; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); SECALE CEREALE; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM INCARNATUM; VICIA; VICIA VILLOSA; VILLOSA;

EID: 13144261780     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.40.1.209     Document Type: Article

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