Effect of rootstock on growth, fruit production and quality of tomato plants grown under low temperature and light conditions

Horticulture Environment and Biotechnology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 626-638

  Riga, Patrick ^a  

^a NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

Author keywords

consistency; construction cost; plastochron; Solanum lycopersicum L; thermal time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946118848     PISSN: 22113452     EISSN: 22113460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13580-015-0042-0     Document Type: Article

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