Combining linear regression and machine learning approaches to identify consensus variables related to optimum sweetpotato transplanting date

HortScience

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 684-686

  Villordon, Arthur ^a   Clark, Christopher ^b   Smith, Tara ^a   Ferrin, Don ^b   LaBonte, Don ^b  

^a LSU AgCenter Sweet Potato Research Station   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adventitious roots; Growing degree days; Ipomoea batatas; Storage root initiation

Indexed keywords

IPOMOEA BATATAS;

EID: 77952031572     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.45.4.684     Document Type: Article

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