May soil solarization reduce the juvenile period in olive?

HortScience

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1241-1244

  El Riachy, Milad ^a   Rallo, Luis ^b   de la Rosa, Raúl ^c   León, Lorenzo ^c  

^a LEBANESE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^c IFAPA CENTRO ALAMEDA DEL OBISPO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breeding; Flowering; Olea Europaea; Olive seedlings

Indexed keywords

OLEA EUROPAEA;

EID: 80052754651     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.46.9.1241     Document Type: Article

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