Effect of the colour of light on cucumber (cucumis sativus l.) seedlings

Vegetable Crops Research Bulletin

Volumn 68, Issue , 2008, Pages 71-80

  PISZCZEK, Piotr ^a   Beata , Głowacka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

aubergine; leaf development; leaf parameters; PAR; pruning; Solanum melongena; vegetative growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 73949118845     PISSN: 15069427     EISSN: 18987761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10032-008-0006-3     Document Type: Article

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