The effect of salinity and porosity of sewage sludge compost on the growth of vegetable seedlings

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 381-386

  Cai, Hong ^a,b   Chen, Tongbin ^a   Liu, Hongtao ^a   Gao, Ding ^a   Zheng, Guodi ^a   Zhang, Jun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Cucumber; Growth medium; Pepper seedlings; Tomato

Indexed keywords

COMPOST; GROWTH RATE; POROSITY; SALINITY; SALT; SEEDLING; SEWAGE; SLUDGE; TOXICITY; VEGETABLE;

CUCUMIS SATIVUS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 77249119655     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2010.01.009     Document Type: Article

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