Nitrogen determination on tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) seedlings by color image analysis (RGB)

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 33, 2010, Pages 5326-5332

  Mercado Luna, Adán ^a   Rico García, Enrique ^a   Lara Herrera, Alfredo ^b   Soto Zarazúa, Genaro ^a   Ocampo Velázquez, Rosalía ^a   Guevara González, Ramón ^a   Herrera Ruiz, Gilberto ^a   Torres Pacheco, Irineo ^a  

^a Queretaro State University   (Mexico)

^b School of Agriculture   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll meter; Color image analysis (RGB); Nitrogen deficiency

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT; CHLOROPHYLL FLUORESCENCE; COLOR; COLOR IMAGE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NITROGEN DEFICIENCY; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NITROGEN DETECTOR; NONHUMAN; PLANT DISEASE; SEEDLING; TOMATO;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 80052340293     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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