Pinch height of stock plants during scaffold development affects cutting production

HortScience

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 650-653

  Faust, James E ^a   Grimes, Larry W ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antirrhinum; Chrysocephalum; Diascia; Lavendula; Osteospermum; Verbena

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CUTTING; VEGETATION;

CUTTING PRODUCTION; PLANT SCAFFOLDS; STOCK PLANTS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BIODIVERSITY; CUTTING; PLANTS;

ANTHOZOA; ANTIRRHINUM; CHRYSOCEPHALUM; CHRYSOCEPHALUM APICULATUM; DIASCIA; OSTEOSPERMUM; PRIMULA; VERBENA; VERBENACEAE;

EID: 19944388897     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.40.3.650     Document Type: Article

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