Nutritional quality of greenhouse lettuce at harvest and after storage in relation to N application and cultivation season

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 93.e1-93.e5

  Konstantopoulou, Eleni ^a   Kapotis, Georgios ^a   Salachas, Georgios ^a   Petropoulos, Spyridon A ^b   Karapanos, Ioannis C ^b   Passam, Harold C ^b  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ascorbic acid; Chlorophyll; Lactuca sativa L.; Leafy vegetables; Nitrates; Nitrogen

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; BIOACCUMULATION; CHLOROPHYLL; CULTIVATION; DICOTYLEDON; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; HARVESTING; HORTICULTURE; LEAFY VEGETABLE; NITRATE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SEASONALITY;

GREECE;

LACTUCA; LACTUCA SATIVA;

EID: 77953323559     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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