Effects of irrigation cut-off on processing tomato fruit quality

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 613, Issue , 2003, Pages 75-80

  Cahn, M D ^a   Herrero, E V ^a   Hanson, B R ^b   Snyder, R L ^b   Hartz, T K ^b   Miyao, E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fruit yield; Irrigation cut off; Shallow water table; Soil moisture tension; Soluble solids

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944524894     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2003.613.7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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