Response of an eggplant crop grown under Mediterranean summer conditions to greenhouse fog cooling

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 90-98

  Katsoulas, N ^a   Savvas, D ^b   Tsirogiannis, I ^c   Merkouris, O ^a   Kittas, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Faculty of Agricultural Technology   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crop transpiration; Fog system; Fruit temperature; Water consumption

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; AERODYNAMICS; AIR TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONE; CRYOBIOLOGY; FOG; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; MARKETING; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MICROCLIMATE; PERENNIAL PLANT; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOLUBILITY; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER UPTAKE;

SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 70349432169     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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