Effects of leaf/fruit ratio and pollen density on highbush blueberry fruit quality and maturation

Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 739-743

  Suzuki, Akira ^a   Shimizu, Tomoaki ^a   Aoba, Koji ^a  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fruit maturation; Fruit quality; Leaf fruit ratio; Number of seeds; Vaccinium corymbosum L.

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; FLOWERING; GROWTH PERIOD; MATURATION;

VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM CORYMBOSUM;

EID: 0032456183     PISSN: 18823351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2503/jjshs.67.739     Document Type: Article

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