Optimum stand density for maximum essential oil yield in commercial fennel crops

HortScience

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 646-650

  Falzari, Linda M ^a   Menary, Robert C ^a   Dragar, Valerie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apiaceae; Essential oil; Foeniculum vulgare; Modelling plant density; Protandry; Umbelliferae

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; CROPS; HARVESTING;

APIACEAE; FOENICULUM VULGARE; MODELLING PLANT DENSITY; PROTANDRY; UMBELLIFERAE;

ESSENTIAL OILS;

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; HARVESTING; STEMS; VOLATILE OIL;

APIACEAE; APIALES; FOENICULUM VULGARE;

EID: 33646459519     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.41.3.646     Document Type: Article

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