Performance of 'McIntosh' apple trees on seven rootstocks and a comparison of methods of productivity assessment

HortScience

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1160-1163

  Autio, Wesley R ^a   Greene, Duane W ^a   Lord, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

fruit color; fruit size; Malus domestica; yield efficiency

Indexed keywords

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 0030423744     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.31.7.1160     Document Type: Article

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