Assessments of bare-root liner quality and purchasing decisions made by Green Industry professionals

HortScience

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 717-724

  Jeffers, Andrew ^a   Palma, Macro ^b   Klingeman, William E ^a   Hall, Charles ^b   Buckley, David ^a   Kopsell, Dean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

First order lateral roots; Green industry; Marketing; Product attributes; Uniformity

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650822621     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.44.3.717     Document Type: Article

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