Integration of cover crop, conservation tillage, and low herbicide rate for machine-harvested pickling cucumbers

HortScience

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1770-1774

  Wang, Guangyao ^a,b   Ngouajio, Mathieu ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cereal rye; No tillage; Oat; Strip tillage; Weeds

Indexed keywords

AVENA SATIVA; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; PYTHIUM; SECALE CEREALE;

EID: 52449110216     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.43.6.1770     Document Type: Article

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