Effect of postharvest soil and foliar application of boron fertilizer on the partitioning of boron in apple trees

HortScience

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2115-2117

  Sánchez, Enrique E ^a   Righetti, Timothy L ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

'Delicious'; Foliar nutrition; Fruit trees; Isotopes; Malus domestica

Indexed keywords

BORON; FERTILIZERS; HARVESTING;

FOLIAR NUTRITION; FRUIT TREES; MALUS DOMESTICA;

FRUITS;

APPLES; BORON; FERTILIZERS; HARVESTING;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 28444491765     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.40.7.2115     Document Type: Article

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