Hardening of oleander seedlings by deficit irrigation and low air humidity

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 36-43

  Banon S ^a,b   Ochoa, J ^a   Franco, J A ^a,b   Alarcon J J ^b   Sanchez Blanco M J ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Nerium oleander; Nursery; Preconditioning; Revegetation; Transplanting; Water stress

Indexed keywords

REVEGETATION; TRANSPLANTATION; WATER RELATIONS; WATER STRESS;

NERIUM; NERIUM OLEANDER;

EID: 32244435579     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2004.12.004     Document Type: Article

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