Effects of supplied nitrogen form and quantity on growth and postharvest quality of Ranunculus asiaticus flowers

HortScience

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1879-1886

  Bernstein, Nirit ^a   Ioffe, Marina ^a   Bruner, Moshe ^b   Nishri, Yair ^b   Luria, Gideon ^b   Dori, Irit ^c   Matan, Eli ^c   Philosoph Hadas, Sonia ^a   Umiel, Nakdimon ^a   Hagiladi, Amir ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b EXTENSION SERVICE   (Israel)

^c Havat Habsor   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Cut flower; Nitrate; Nitrogen

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CALCIUM; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; MORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN;

CUT-FLOWER; FLOWER QUALITY; NITRATE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AMMONIA; ANATOMY; CALCIUM; MAGNESIUM; NITROGEN; PLANTS;

RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS ASIATICUS;

EID: 24944545635     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.40.6.1879     Document Type: Article

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