Removal of the most developed flowers influences fruit set, quality, and yield of apple clusters

HortScience

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 353-356

  Miranda, Carlos ^a   Santesteban, Luis G ^a   Royo, José B ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fruit set; Fruit weight; Malus xdomestica L. Borkh; Thinning

Indexed keywords

GROWTH KINETICS; PLANTS (BOTANY); QUALITY CONTROL; REMOVAL;

FLOWER BLOOM; FRUIT SETS; INTENSITY OF FLOWER REMOVAL (FRI); THINNING PRACTICES;

FRUITS;

FLOWERS; FRUITS; INCREMENTS; PLANTS; QUALITY CONTROL; REMOVAL; VARIETIES;

MALUS DOMESTICA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MALUS XDOMESTICA;

EID: 14244268474     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.40.2.353     Document Type: Article

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