Late-season 'Valencia' orange mechanical harvesting with an abscission agent and low-frequency harvesting

HortScience

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 660-663

  Burns, Jacqueline K ^a   Roka, Fritz M ^a   Li, Kuo Tan ^a   Pozo, Luis ^a   Buker, Richard S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Helena Chemical Company   (United States)

Author keywords

5 chloro 3 methyl 4 nitro 1H pyrazole; Fruit removal; Trunk shaker; Yield

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; FRUITS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

-CHLORO-3-METHYL-4-NITRO-1H-PYRAZOLE; FRUIT REMOVAL; TRUNK SHAKER;

HARVESTING;

ABSCISIC ACID; FRUITS; PLANTS; YIELD;

CITRUS SINENSIS;

EID: 33646464267     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.41.3.660     Document Type: Article

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