Comparing novel sweet cherry crop load management strategies

HortScience

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1271-1275

  Whiting, Matthew D ^a   Ophardt, David ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biennial bearing; Blossom thinning; Crop value; Fruit quality; Gisela; Prunus avium; Rootstock; Source sink relations; Spur extinction; Yield

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; FORESTRY; FRUITS; ORCHARDS;

BALANCING CROPS; CLONAL ROOTSTOCKS; CROP LOAD MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; SWEET CHERRY ORCHARD SYSTEMS;

CROPS;

CULTIVATION; FARM CROPS; FRUITS; ORCHARDS; ROOTS; TREES;

PRUNUS; PRUNUS AVIUM;

EID: 22444437455     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.40.5.1271     Document Type: Article

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