The dwarfing effect of a single application of growth inhibitors to the root-stem connection - "the collar tissue" - of five species of fruit trees

Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 83-91

  Grochowska, Maria J ^a   Hodun, Malgorzata ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF POMOLOGY AND FLORICULTURE   (Poland)

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