Vegetative and reproductive response of olive cultivars to moderate saline water irrigation

HortScience

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 320-327

  Weissbein, Sebastian ^a   Wiesman, Zeev ^a   Ephrath, Yhonathan ^a   Silberbush, Moshe ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electrical conductivity; Irrigation; Olive cultivars; Salinity; Semiarid

Indexed keywords

BARNEA;

EID: 41149146553     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.43.2.320     Document Type: Article

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