Cover crops can improve potato tuber yield and quality

HortTechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 185-190

  Essah, Samuel Y C ^a   Delgado, Jorge A ^b   Dillon, Merlin ^a   Sparks, Richard ^c  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c USDA NRCS   (United States)

Author keywords

Tuber external defects; Tuber size distribution

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; BRASSICA SP.; HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS ANNUUS; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; LOLIUM; LOLIUM MULTIFLORUM; PISUM SATIVUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; SORGHUM BICOLOR; SORGHUM X DRUMMONDII;

EID: 84861354668     PISSN: 10630198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/horttech.22.2.185     Document Type: Article

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