Pollen production and pollen viability in male jojoba plants

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 117-123

  Vaknin, Yiftach ^a   Mills, David ^b   Benzioni, Aliza ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Artificial pollination; Fruit set; Jojoba; Pollen germinability; Simmondsia chinensis (Link) Schneider

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; FRUITS; GROWTH KINETICS;

GERMINABILITY;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANEMOPHILY; CULTIVAR; GERMINATION; POLLINATION; SHRUB;

MEXICO; SONORA DESERT; UNITED STATES;

SIMMONDSIA; SIMMONDSIA CHINENSIS;

EID: 0042849353     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6690(03)00038-4     Document Type: Article

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