Evapotranspiration, yield, crop coefficients, and water use efficiency of drip and furrow irrigated processing tomatoes

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 96, Issue , 2006, Pages 31-35

  Hanson, B ^a   May, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop coefficients; Drip irrigation; Evapotranspiration; Furrow irrigation; Irrigation; Processing tomatoes; Tomato; Water; Water use; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

BOWEN RATIO; CROP YIELD; DRIP IRRIGATION; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FURROW IRRIGATION; VEGETABLE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 36148948943     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/SI060041     Document Type: Article

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