Fruit weight, cropload, and return bloom of 'Empire' apple following thinning with 6-benzyladenine and NAA at several phenological stages

HortScience

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1077-1081

  Stover, E ^a   Fargione, M ^a   Risio, R ^a   Yang, X ^a   Robinson, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accel ; BA; Carbaryl; Flowering; Fruit size; Malus xdomestica; Naphthaleneacetic acid; Sevin

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CULTIVATION;

CROPLOAD REDUCTIONS;

FRUITS;

MALUS X DOMESTICA; MALUS XDOMESTICA;

EID: 0035181697     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.36.6.1077     Document Type: Article

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