Changes in pickling cucumber yield and economic value in response to planting density

Crop Science

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1570-1575

  Ngouajio, Mathieu ^a   Wang, Guangyao ^a   Hausbeck, Mary K ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 33746048052     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2005.10-0377     Document Type: Article

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