Response of container-grown nursery plants to chlorine used to disinfest irrigation water

HortScience

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 164-167

  Cayanan, Diane Feliciano ^a   Dixon, Mike ^a   Zheng, Youbin ^a   Llewellyn, Jennifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chlorine phytotoxicity; Deciduous shrubs; Herbaceous shrubs; Plant pathogens

Indexed keywords

BUXUS; BUXUS MICROPHYLLA; CHAMAECYPARIS; CHAMAECYPARIS PISIFERA; CORNUS; CORNUS SERICEA SERICEA; FUNGI; HYDRANGEA; HYDRANGEA PANICULATA; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS HORIZONTALIS; OOMYCETES; PHYSOCARPUS OPULIFOLIUS; PICEA GLAUCA; PRUNUS; RHODODENDRON; RHODODENDRON CATAWBIENSE; SALIX; SALIX INTEGRA; TAXUS; TAXUS X MEDIA; THUJA OCCIDENTALIS; WEIGELA FLORIDA;

EID: 58849138839     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.44.1.164     Document Type: Article

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