Effect of Vermicompost on the Growth and Production Of Amashito Pepper, Interactions with Earthworms and Rhizobacteria

Compost Science and Utilization

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 282-288

  Huerta, Esperanza ^a   Vidal, Olivia ^a   Jarquin, Aaron ^a   Geissen, Violette ^a   Gomez, Regino ^a  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BEVERAGES; BIOCONTROL; MANURES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS; VALUE ENGINEERING;

CAPSICUM ANNUM; CAPSICUM ANNUUM; COW MANURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; FRUIT PRODUCTION; INDIRECT EFFECTS; MESOCOSMS; MICROBIAL PROCESS; OLIGOCHAETA; ORGANIC MATTER; PLANT GROWTH; RHIZOBACTERIA; ROOT GROWTH; SOIL FAUNA; VERMICOMPOSTS; YIELD PRODUCTION;

SUBSTRATES;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGROINDUSTRY; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; COMPOST; CROP YIELD; CULTIVATION; DICOTYLEDON; EARTHWORM; GROWTH RATE; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL POLLUTION; TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURE; VERMICULTURE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TABASCO;

ANNELIDA; CAPSICUM; CAPSICUM ANNUUM; CAPSICUM ANNUUM VAR. GLABRIUSCULUM; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); PANICUM; RHIZOBIALES; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 78650865738     PISSN: 1065657X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1065657X.2010.10736967     Document Type: Article

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