Bloom thinning 'Loadel' cling peach with a surfactant

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 334-338

  Southwick, Stephen M ^a   Weis, Kitren G ^a   Yeager, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical thinning; Fatty amine polymer; Hand thinning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000603916     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.121.2.334     Document Type: Article

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