Responses of clonal tea to location of production and plucking intervals

Food Chemistry

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 290-296

  Owuor, P Okinda ^a   Kamau, David M ^b   Jondiko, Erick O ^a  

^a MASENO UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b TEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF KENYA   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Area of production; Camellia sinensis; Harvesting intervals; Kenya; Quality; Yields

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949097115     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2008.11.073     Document Type: Article

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