Pesticide residues in individual versus composite samples of apples after fine or coarse spray quality application

Crop Protection

Volumn 35, Issue , 2012, Pages 5-14

  Poulsen, Mette E ^a   Wenneker, Marcel ^b   Withagen, Jacques ^b   Christensen, H B ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Composite samples; Degradation; Droplet size; Fruit; Pesticides; Variability factor

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; COMPOSITE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FRUIT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PESTICIDE; SPRAY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 84856335793     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2011.12.013     Document Type: Article

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