Model-based design of protected cultivation systems - First results and remaining challenges

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 957, Issue , 2012, Pages 255-266

  Van Henten, E J ^a   Vanthoor, B ^a,b   Stanghellini, C ^a   De Visser, P H B ^a   Hemming, S ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HortMaX BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Optimization; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870694540     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2012.957.29     Document Type: Article

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