Crop load reduction and fruit size following multi-step thinning of 'Empire' apple

HortScience

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 130-133

  Stover, Ed ^a   Fargione, Mike ^a   Risio, Richard ^a   Yang, Xiaoe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

6 BA; 6 benzyladenine; Accel ; Alternate bearing; BA; Biennial bearing; Carbaryl; Crop load; Endothall; Fruit size; Malus domestica; Multi step thinning; NAA; Naphthalene acetic acid; Return bloom; Sevin

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; FRUITS;

CROPLOADS;

CROPS;

MALUS; MALUS DOMESTICA; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 0036195450     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.37.1.130     Document Type: Article

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