Effects of different emitter space and water stress on yield and quality of processing tomato under semi-arid climate conditions

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1405-1410

  Ozbahce, Aynur ^a   Tari, Ali Fuat ^a  

^a Soil and Water Resources Institute   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Emitter space; Irrigation level; Quality; Tomato; Water stress; Yield

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACIDS; CROP QUALITY; CROP YIELD; DRIP IRRIGATION; ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FRUIT WEIGHT; HIGH STRESS; IRRIGATION LEVEL; IRRIGATION WATERS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM MILL; PENETRATION VALUES; SEMI-ARID CLIMATE; SOIL DEPTH; SOLUBLE SOLIDS; TOTAL SOLUBLE SOLIDS; WATER STRESS;

CROPS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FRUITS; IRRIGATION; KETONES; ORGANIC ACIDS; PLANTS (BOTANY); WATER SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

YIELD STRESS;

CROP PROCESSING; CROP YIELD; DRIP IRRIGATION; FOOD PROCESSING; FRUIT; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL DEPTH; WATER QUALITY; WATER STRESS; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE; YIELD RESPONSE;

KONYA [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 77953127945     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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