The effect of growth medium temperature on corn salad [valerianella locusta (L.) laterr] baby leaf yield and quality

HortScience

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1619-1625

  Costa, Luisa Dalla ^a   Tomasi, Nicola ^a   Gottardi, Stefano ^a   Iacuzzo, Francesco ^a   Cortella, Giovanni ^a   Manzocco, Lara ^a   Pinton, Roberto ^a   Mimmo, Tanja ^b   Cesco, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Floating system; Food quality; Mineral nutrition; Nitrate; Temperature; Yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255209631     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.46.12.1619     Document Type: Article

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