Effect of nitrogen rates on yield and quality of fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.) accessions

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 121-125

  Ehsanipour, Ali ^a   Razmjoo, Jamshid ^a   Zeinali, Hosseian ^b  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Isfahan Agriculture Research Center   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ash content; Essential oil; Fennel; Fiber content; Protein content

Indexed keywords

ASH CONTENTS; EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS; FENNEL; FIBER CONTENT; FIBER CONTENTS; MEDICINAL PLANTS; N FERTILIZATION; NITROGEN FERTILIZATION; NITROGEN RATE; PLANT GENOTYPE; PLANT HEIGHT; PROTEIN CONTENT; SEED YIELD; SPLIT-PLOT; UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY;

EXPERIMENTS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; PROTEINS; SEED;

ESSENTIAL OILS;

ASH; CROP YIELD; ESSENTIAL OIL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FOLIAGE; GENOTYPE; HERB; MEDICINAL PLANT; NITROGEN; PROTEIN; SEED;

ESFAHAN [ESFAHAN (PRV)]; ESFAHAN [IRAN]; IRAN;

FOENICULUM VULGARE;

EID: 80051941008     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2011.06.018     Document Type: Article

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