Partial substitution of peat in mushroom casing with fine particle coal tailings

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 351-367

  Noble, R ^a   Dobrovin Pennington, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agaricus bisporus; Casing; Coal tailings; Matric potential; Mushroom; Peat substitution

Indexed keywords

COMPOST; HORTICULTURE; MUSHROOM;

AGARICUS BISPORUS;

EID: 14844300127     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2004.09.004     Document Type: Article

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