Viability of pollen of two fruit crop cacti of the genus Hylocereus is affected by temperature and duration of storage

HortScience

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 199-201

  Metz, Christiane ^a   Nerd, Avinoam ^a   Mizrahi, Yosef ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Hylocereus polyrhizus; Hylocereus undatus; Pollen quality

Indexed keywords

HYLOCEREUS; HYLOCEREUS POLYRHIZUS; HYLOCEREUS UNDATUS;

EID: 0348237163     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.35.2.199     Document Type: Article

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