POTENTIAL FOR THE USE OF ANTITRANSPIRANTS IN SWEET CORN PRODUCTION

G.M. Shekour, R.A.I. Brathwaite and C.R. McDavid

No 261348, 22nd Annual Meeting, August 25-29, 1986, St. Lucia from Caribbean Food Crops Society

Abstract: The general principles governing the application of antitranspirants are reviewed and results of research work with an antitranspirants on sweet corn (Zea mays L. var. saccharata Sturt.) carried out in the Faculty of Agriculture, University of the West Indies, are discussed. Phenylmercuric acetate (PHA) and Vaporgard are identified as two promising chemicals for use in sweet corn production under dry Trinidad conditions.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7
Date: 1986-08-25
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/261348/files/22_38.pdf (application/pdf)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/261348/files/22_38.pdf?subformat=pdfa (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:cfcs86:261348

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.261348

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 22nd Annual Meeting, August 25-29, 1986, St. Lucia from Caribbean Food Crops Society
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().