Fruit quality in strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Duch. cv. Korona) at three times during the season and with two fertilizer strategies

Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 36-40

  Wold, Anne Berit ^a   Opstad, Nina ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CULTIVAR; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOOD QUALITY; FRUIT; HARVESTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

FRAGARIA X ANANASSA;

EID: 34548289778     PISSN: 16139216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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