Pruning affects the development of correlative phenomena among lateral shoots in dormant two-year-old 'Royal Gala' apple branches

HortScience

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 965-968

  Cronjé, Paul J R ^a   Jacobs, Gerard ^a   Cook, Nigel C ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dominance; Fruit size; Malus x sylvestris (L.) Mill. var. Domestica (Borkh.) Mansf.; Paradormancy

Indexed keywords

COLD STORAGE; PLANTS (BOTANY); TISSUE;

FIELD CHILLING; PRUNING;

HARVESTING;

CERES; MALUS; MALUS SYLVESTRIS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 3142715338     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.39.5.965     Document Type: Article

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