Transplant Quality, Yield, and Heavy-Metal Accumulation of Tomato, Muskmelon, and Cabbage Grown in Media Containing Sewage Sludge Compost1

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S. B. Sterrett Department of Horticulture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

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R. L. Chaney Department of Horticulture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

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L. W. Douglass Department of Horticulture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

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Online Publication Date:
Jan 1983
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36–41
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Volume 108: Issue 1
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https://doi.org/10.21273/JASHS.108.1.36
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S. B. Sterrett Department of Horticulture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

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Received for publication Oct. 5, 1981. Scientific Article No. A-3048, Contribution No. 6112 of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station. This research was supported in part by the Small Farm Research Program, Beltsville, Md. Trade names are used in this publication to provide specific information. Mention of a trade name does not constitute a guarantee or warranty of the product by the University of Maryland or the U.S. Department of Agriculture or an endorsement over other products not mentioned.

The cost of publishing this paper was defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. Under postal regulations, this paper therefore must be hereby marked advertisement solely to indicate this fact.

Former Research Graduate Assistant (Present address: Maryland Environmental Services, C/O USDA-ARS, Biological Waste Management Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 20705), Professor, and Associate Professor, Dept. of Horticulture.

Research Agronomist, USDA-ARS-Biological Waste Management and Organic Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 20705.

Associate Professor, Dept. of Biometrics.

We gratefully acknowledge the technical assistance of A. L. Johnson and W. A. Johnson in the greenhouse and field plots, and the suggestions of T. M. Little on statistical analysis and data presentation.

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