Crop growth and yield

Tomatoes

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 85-144

  Heuvelink, E ^a   Dorais, M ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

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