Effects of supplemental lighting within the canopy at different developing stages on tomato yield and quality of single-truss tomato plants grown at high density

Environmental Control in Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Maruo, Torn ^a   Joiikan, Masahumi ^a   Hohjo, Masaaki ^a   Tsukagoshi, Satoru ^a   Pro, Yoshikazu ^a   Ichimura, Takuya ^b   Shinohara, Yutaka ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Mitsubishi Plastics Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Canopy; Light insufficiency; STTPS; Supplemental lighting efficiency; Tomato

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864606024     PISSN: 1880554X     EISSN: 18830986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2525/ecb.50.1     Document Type: Article

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