A model to predict peach phenology and maturity using meteorological variables

HortScience

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 213-216

  Schwartz, Mark D ^a   Carbone, Gregory J ^b   Reighard, Gregory L ^c   Okie, William R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Modeling weather effects; Prunus persica

Indexed keywords

PRUNUS; PRUNUS PERSICA;

EID: 0030864160     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.32.2.213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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