Influence of bio, organic and chemical fertilizers on medicinal pumpkin traits

Journal of Medicinal Plant Research

Volumn 5, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 5590-5597

  Habibi, Azam ^a   Heidari, Gholamreza ^a   Sohrabi, Yosuf ^a   Badakhshan, Hedieh ^a   Mohammadi, Khosro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KURDISTAN   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biofertilizer; Compost; Farmyard manure; Oil; Pumpkin

Indexed keywords

BIOFERTILIZER; CHEMICAL FERTILIZER; FERTILIZER; NITROGEN FERTILIZER; ORGANIC FERTILIZER; PHOSPHATE FERTILIZER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PLANT YIELD; PUMPKIN; SEED WEIGHT; SEED YIELD;

EID: 80755182367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19960875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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