Benzyladenine for treating trees of hard to thin apple cultivars

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 463, Issue , 1998, Pages 509-515

  Buban, T ^a   Lakatos, T ^a  

^a Research Station for Fruitgrowing   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Apple; Benzyladenine (BA); Biennially bearing; Feathering agent; Fruit thinning

Indexed keywords

EID: 1242339341     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.1998.463.64     Document Type: Article

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