Study of Changes in Soil Moisture and Salinity Under PlasticMulch and Drip Irrigation in Pistachio Trees

Subject Areas : Microbiology

N..  Sedaghati ¹ (Department of Agriculture, International Campus Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran)
A.  Alizadeh ² (Department of Water Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran)
H.  Ansari ³ (Department of Water Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran)
S. J.  Hosseinifard ⁴ (Iranian pistachio Research Institute, Rafsanjan, Iran)

Received: 2016-06-05 Accepted : 2016-06-05 Published : 2016-06-01

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