Managing fruit soluble solids with late-season deficit irrigation in drip-irrigated processing tomato production

HortScience

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1857-1861

  Johnstone, P R ^a   Hartz, T K ^a   LeStrange, M ^a,b   Nunez, J J ^a,b   Miyao, E M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

Author keywords

Brix monitoring; Brix yield; Fruit quality; Lycopersicon esculentum

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; HARVESTING;

BRIX MONITORING; BRIX YIELD; FRUIT QUALITY; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

IRRIGATION;

COMPOSITES; HARVESTING; IRRIGATION;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 24944468193     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.40.6.1857     Document Type: Article

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