Tomato seedling growth and morphological responses to supplemental LED lighting red:Blue ratios under varied daily solar light integrals

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 956, Issue , 2012, Pages 187-194

  Hernandez R ^a   Kubota, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

DLI; Greenhouse; Light emitting diode; PAR; Solanum lycopersicum; Spectral quality.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870614225     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2012.956.19     Document Type: Article

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