Pollination study of mandarins and the effect on seediness and fruit size: Implications for seedless mandarin production

HortScience

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 362-365

  Chao, Chih Cheng T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross pollination; Flowering; Open pollination; Parthenocarpy; Selfing; Triploid

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; FRUITS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

FRUIT SETS; MANDARINS; TRIPLOID CULTIVARS;

SEED;

CHROMOSOMES; DIPLOIDS; FRUITS; PLANTS; POLLINATION; SEEDINESS; SEEDS; VARIETIES;

CITRUS RETICULATA; NULES; NULES CLEMENTINE;

EID: 14244266258     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.40.2.362     Document Type: Article

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