Flower bud density affects vegetative and fruit development in field-grown southern highbush blueberry

HortScience

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 607-610

  Maust, B E ^a,b   Williamson, J G ^a   Darnell, R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Centro de Estudios del Agua   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bud removal; Budbreak; Fruit ratio; Fruit ripening; Leaf; Leaf area; Pruning; Vaccinium corymbosum

Indexed keywords

CULTIVAR; PLANT DEVELOPMENT;

VACCINIUM CORYMBOSUM;

EID: 0032788553     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.34.4.607     Document Type: Article

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