High tunnel tree fruit production: The final frontier?

HortTechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-55

  Lang, Gregory A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dwarfing rootstocks; Environmental modification; Multi bay tunnels; Protected agriculture; Prunus avium; Sweet cherry

Indexed keywords

ACARI; APHIDIDAE; ARANEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BLUMERIELLA JAAPII; COLEOPTERA; CONOTRACHELUS NENUPHAR; ERYSIPHALES; HEXAPODA; MYZUS CERASI; PODOSPHAERA CLANDESTINA; POPILLIA JAPONICA; PRUNUS; PRUNUS AVIUM; PRUNUS DOMESTICA; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RHAGOLETIS CINGULATA; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE;

EID: 68049130001     PISSN: 10630198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.19.1.50     Document Type: Article

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