Sustainable production practices adopted by greenhouse and nursery plant growers

HortScience

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1232-1237

  Dennis, Jennifer H ^a   Lopez, Roberto G ^a   Behe, Bridget K ^b   Hall, Charles R ^b,c   Yue, Chengyan ^a,d   Campbell, Benjamin L ^e  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e Vineland Research and Innovation Centre   (United States)

Author keywords

Certification; Floriculture; Green industry; Producer; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958102378     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.45.8.1232     Document Type: Article

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