Silicon supply in soilless cultivations of zucchini alleviates stress induced by salinity and powdery mildew infections

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-17

  Savvas, D ^a   Giotis, D ^b   Chatzieustratiou, E ^c   Bakea, M ^b   Patakioutas, G ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Faculty of Agricultural Technology   (Greece)

^c TEI of Mesologhi   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cucurbita pepo; Gas exchange; Growth responses; Powdery mildew; Salinity; Silicon; Squash; Zucchini

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CROP YIELD; CULTIVATION; FUNGAL DISEASE; GAS EXCHANGE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HERB; HYDROPONICS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SALINITY; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE;

CUCURBITA PEPO; CUCURBITA PEPO VAR. MELOPEPO; ERYSIPHALES; PODOSPHAERA XANTHII;

EID: 57349141682     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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