Foliar application of microbial and plant based biostimulants increases growth and potassium uptake in almond (Prunus dulcis [Mill.] D. A. Webb)

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Saa, Sebastian ^a   Del Rio, Andres Olivos ^b   Castro, Sebastian ^b   Brown, Patrick H ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Almond; Ascophyllum nodosum; Foliar fertilizer; GroZyme; MegaFol; Microbial fermentation; Rubidium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923241418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00087     Document Type: Article

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