Growth and morphogenesis of lettuce seedlings raised under different combinations of red and blue light

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 435, Issue , 1997, Pages 149-157

  Okamoto, Kensho ^a   Yanagi, Tomohiro ^a   Kondo, Shinji ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial light source; Lactuca sativa L.; LED; Light emitting diode

Indexed keywords

LACTUCA; LACTUCA SATIVA;

EID: 33749238807     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.1997.435.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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