Bitter pit and vascular function in apples

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 564, Issue , 2001, Pages 387-392

  Drazeta, Lazar ^a,b   Lang, Alexander ^a   Morgan, Lynette ^a   Volz, Richard ^a   Jameson, Paula E ^b  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Apple; Bitter pit; Calcium; Xylem dysfunction

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142757238     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2001.564.48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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