The influence of drip irrigation or subirrigation on zucchini squash grown in closed-loop substrate culture with high and low nutrient solution concentrations

HortScience

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 306-311

  Rouphael, Youssef ^a,b   Colla, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUCURBITA PEPO; CUCURBITA PEPO VAR. MELOPEPO;

EID: 66349136073     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.44.2.306     Document Type: Article

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