Environmental stresses that cause sunburn of apple

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 618, Issue , 2003, Pages 397-405

  Schrader, Larry ^a   Zhang, Jianguang ^a,b   Sun, Jianshe ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEBEI   (China)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Fruit surface temperature; Malus x domestica; Relative humidity; Solar irradiation; Thermal death; UV B radiation; Wind velocity; Malus sylvestris (L) Mill var domestica (Borkh) Mansf

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944382995     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2003.618.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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