Cultivar mixtures of processing tomato in an organic agroecosystem

Organic Agriculture

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-30

  Barrios Masias, Felipe H ^a   Cantwell, Marita I ^a   Jackson, Louise E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brassica cover crop; Fruit quality; Nitrogen; Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc; Soil; Solanum lycopersicum L.

Indexed keywords

ATHELIA ROLFSII; BRASSICA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 84882699418     PISSN: 18794238     EISSN: 18794246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13165-010-0002-z     Document Type: Article

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