Fruit yield and quality of watermelon in relation to grafting

Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 178-179

  Alexopoulos, Alexios A ^a   Kondylis, Angelos ^a   Passam, Harold C ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Rootstock; Scion; Soluble solids

Indexed keywords

CITRULLUS COLOCYNTHIS; CITRULLUS LANATUS; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; CUCURBITA;

EID: 33847379341     PISSN: 14590255     EISSN: 14590263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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