Vegetative growth responses of florist azaleas to Dikegulac, GA4+7, and 6-benzylamino purine

HortScience

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 690-693

  Bell, Michelle L ^a,b   Larson, Roy A ^a   Bailey, Douglas A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apical dominance; Chemical branching agents; Gibberellic acid; Lateral shoot development; Pruning; Rhododendron

Indexed keywords

RHODODENDRON;

EID: 0030870481     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.32.4.690     Document Type: Article

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