Hydraulic characteristics of composted pig manure, perlite, and mixtures of them, and their impact on cucumber grown on bags

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 135-141

  Al Naddaf, Ola ^a   Livieratos, Ioannis ^a   Stamatakis, Aristides ^a   Tsirogiannis, Ioannis ^b   Gizas, George ^b   Savvas, Dimitrios ^c  

^a MEDITERRANEAN AGRONOMIC INSTITUTE OF CHANIA   (Greece)

^b Faculty of Agricultural Technology   (Greece)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Compost; Cucumis sativus; Growing media; Hydraulic properties; Perlite; Soilless culture

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; BULK DENSITY; FRUIT; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MANURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER CONTENT;

CUCUMIS SATIVUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 79954994033     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2011.03.023     Document Type: Article

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