Controlled environments for production of value-added food crops with high phytochemical concentrations: Lycopene in tomato as an example

HortScience

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 522-525

  Kubota, Chieri ^a   Thomson, Cynthia A ^a   Wu, Min ^a   Javanmardi, Jamal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Electrical conductivity; Greenhouse; Lycopersicon esculentum; Salinity

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANTS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISKS; NUTRITION; PIGMENTS;

GREENHOUSE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PHYTOCHEMICALS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CROPS;

ANTIOXIDANTS; CONCENTRATION; FARM CROPS; HEALTH; NUTRITION; PIGMENT; RESISTIVITY; SALINITY;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 33646465907     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.41.3.522     Document Type: Conference Paper

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