Pruning severity affects yield, berry weight, and hand harvest efficiency of highbush blueberry

HortScience

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 196-199

  Strik, Bernadine ^a   Buller, Gil ^a   Hellman, Edward ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy; Dry weight; Growth; Harvesting; Partitioning; Vaccinium corymbosum

Indexed keywords

FRUITS; HARVESTING; WOOD;

HARVEST EFFICIENCY;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

FRUITS; HARVESTING; PLANTS; PRUNING; SHOOTS; WOOD;

VACCINIUM CORYMBOSUM;

EID: 0037800426     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.38.2.196     Document Type: Article

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