Effects of calcium and magnesium on growth, fruit yield and quality in a fall greenhouse tomato crop grown on rockwool

Canadian Journal of Plant Science

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 903-912

  Hao, Xiuming ^a   Papadopoulos, Athanasios P ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calcium; Greenhouse; Lycopersicon esculentum; Magnesium; Photosynthesis; Quality; Tomato; Yield

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CROP YIELD; FRUIT; GROWTH; MAGNESIUM;

LYCOPERSICON; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; ZIZIPHUS MAURITIANA;

EID: 1542548376     PISSN: 00084220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/p02-140     Document Type: Article

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