Halophyte crop cultivation: The case for salicornia and sarcocornia

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 92, Issue , 2013, Pages 144-153

  Ventura, Yvonne ^a   Sagi, Moshe ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Agrotechniques; Cash crop halophytes; Cultivation systems; Flowering; Harvesting; N fertilization; Nutritional value; Salinity

Indexed keywords

CROP; CROP PRODUCTION; CULTIVATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FLOWERING; HALOPHYTE; IRRIGATION; SALINIZATION; SECONDARY METABOLITE; VEGETABLE;

SALICORNIA; SARCOCORNIA;

EID: 84878182331     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2012.07.010     Document Type: Article

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