Effect of GA3 and pollination on fruit set and development in rabbiteye blueberry

HortScience

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 632-635

  Cano Medrano, Raquel ^a,b   Darnell, Rebecca L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Monticell Texcoco ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Fruit abscission; Parthenocarpy; Seed mass; Seed number; Vaccinium ashei

Indexed keywords

VACCINIUM ASHEI;

EID: 0031878348     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.33.4.632     Document Type: Article

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