Potential for greenhouse aeroponic cultivation of urtica dioica

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 659, Issue , 2004, Pages 61-66

  Pagliarulo, C L ^a   Hayden, A L ^b   Giacomelli, G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Native American Botanics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Directing plant growth; Hydroponics; Medicinal plants; Repeated coppicing; Root shoot ratios; Urtica dioica

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646443980     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2004.659.6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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