Response to severe water stress of the almond (Prunus amygdalus) ’ferragnès’ grafted on eight rootstocks

New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 355-362

  Isaakidis, A ^a   Sotiropoulos, T ^a   Almaliotis, D ^b   Therios, I ^c   Stylianidis, D ^d  

^a Pomology Institute   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll; Drought tolerance; Leaf water potential; Photosynthetic rate; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

HORTICULTURE;

PRUNUS; PRUNUS DULCIS;

EID: 12244269337     PISSN: 01140671     EISSN: 11758783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01140671.2004.9514316     Document Type: Article

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