Comparison between conventional and organic floating systems for lettuce and tomato (Lactuca sativa and Lycopersicon esculentum) seedling production

Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 623-628

  Bilalis, Dimitrios ^a   Kanatas, Panagiotis ^b   Patsiali, Sotiria ^a   Konstantas, Aristidis ^a   Akoumianakis, Konstantinos ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conventional; Cost; Floating system; Lettuce; Mycorrhiza; Organic; Substrate mixtures; Tomato

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; OXYGEN; PEAT; VERMICULITE; WATER;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DRY WEIGHT; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FLOATING SYSTEM; FRESH WEIGHT; LETTUCE; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SOLUTION; PH; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT HEIGHT; ROOT GROWTH; SEEDLING; TECHNIQUE; TOBACCO; TOMATO; VEGETABLE; WATER CONTENT;

LACTUCA; LACTUCA SATIVA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 66349089254     PISSN: 14590255     EISSN: 14590263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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