Impact of season and harvest frequency on biomass and essential oil yields of artemisia herba-alba cultivated in Southern Tunisia

Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 499-508

  Mighri, Hedi ^a   Akrout, Ahmed ^a   Casanova, Joseph ^b   Tomi, Felix ^a   Neffati, Mohamed ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES RÉGIONS ARIDES   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CORSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA HERBA-ALBA;

EID: 70350572464     PISSN: 00144797     EISSN: 14694441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0014479709990445     Document Type: Article

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