Boron does not increase hazelnut fruit set and production

HortScience

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1053-1055

  Ferran X ^a,b   Tous, J ^b   Romero, A ^b   Lloveras, J ^a,b   Pericon J R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b IRTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corylus avellana; Fruit tree nutrition; Mineral elements

Indexed keywords

CORYLUS; CORYLUS AVELLANA;

EID: 0030774668     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.32.6.1053     Document Type: Article

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