Timing and severity of postharvest water stress affect following-year productivity and fruit quality of field-grown 'Snow Queen' nectarine

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 806-812

  Naor, A ^a   Stern, R ^b   Peres, M ^c   Greenblat, Y ^c   Gal, Y ^c   Flaishman, Moshe A ^d  

^a Golan Research Institute   (Israel)

^b MIGAL GALILEE TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Israel)

^c EXTENSION SERVICE   (Israel)

^d VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRUNUS; PRUNUS PERSICA; PRUNUS PERSICA NUCIPERSICA;

EID: 27744471339     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.130.6.806     Document Type: Article

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