Growth, flowering and leaf properties of pear cultivars grafted on two Asian pear rootstock seedlings under NaCl irrigation

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 85, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 91-101

  Okubo, Masataka ^a   Furukawa, Yoshishige ^a   Sakuratani, Tetsuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flower bud formation; Pyrus spp.; Salinity tolerance; Sodium chloride

Indexed keywords

PYRUS BETULIFOLIA; PYRUS PYRIFOLIA;

EID: 0034601157     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4238(99)00145-4     Document Type: Article

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