Closing the loop: Use of biochar produced from tomato crop green waste as a substrate for soilless, hydroponic tomato production

HortScience

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1572-1581

  Dunlop, Samuel J ^a   Arbestain, Marta Camps ^a   Bishop, Peter A ^a   Wargent, Jason J ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biochar; Hydroponics; Soilless; Tomato

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946093482     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: 23279834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.50.10.1572     Document Type: Article

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