Actual performance versus theoretical advantages of polyacrylamide hydrogel throughout bedding plant production

HortScience

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2040-2046

  Frantz, Jonathan M ^a   Locke, James C ^a   Pitchay, Dharmalingam S ^a   Krause, Charles R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; GROWTH KINETICS; HYDROGELS; IRRIGATION; POLYACRYLATES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

IRRIGATION FREQUENCY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT PRODUCTION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CULTIVATION; GROWTH; IRRIGATION; PLANTS; POLYACRYLICS;

IMPATIENS; IMPATIENS HAWKERI; VIOLA (ANGIOSPERM); VIOLACEAE;

EID: 28444496314     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.40.7.2040     Document Type: Article

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