Effects of organic and inorganic fertilization on growth, yield and nicotine content of flue-cured and oriental tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) seedlings grown in organic and conventional float system

Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 585-589

  Bilalis, Dimitrios ^a   Karkanis, Anestis ^a   Triantafyllidis, Vasilios ^b   Ladavos, Athanasios ^b   Bizos, Dimitrios ^c   Patsiali, Sotiria ^a   Papatheohari, Yiolada ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c Organic Certification Body   (Greece)

Author keywords

Float system; Nicotine content; Organic fertilization; Tobacco; Trichoderma spp.; Yield

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; INORGANIC COMPOUND; NICOTINE; ORGANIC FERTILIZER;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; FERTILIZATION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GREECE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT YIELD; REPLICATION STUDY; SEED QUALITY; SEEDLING; STUDY DESIGN; TOBACCO; WATER CONTENT;

NICOTIANA TABACUM; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 77952843192     PISSN: 14590255     EISSN: 14590263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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