Fungicide sprays can injure the stigmatic surface during receptivity in almond flowers

Annals of Botany

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 335-341

  Yi, Weiguang ^a   Edward Law, S ^b   Wetzstein, Hazel Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

Almond; Collapse; Exudate; Fungicide; Pesticide; Prunus dulcis; Scanning electron microscopy; Stigmatic papillae

Indexed keywords

FUNGICIDE; RHODAMINE; RHODAMINE B;

EXUDATION; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FUNGICIDE; PESTICIDE; POLLINATION;

ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FLOWER; PHYSIOLOGY; PRUNUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

FLOWERS; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; PRUNUS; RHODAMINES;

PRUNUS; PRUNUS DULCIS;

EID: 0242684556     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcg019     Document Type: Article

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