Effects of heading-back pruning on shoot growth and IAA and cytokinin concentrations at bud burst of columnar-type apple trees

Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 224-230

  Watanabe, Manabu ^a   Suzuki, Akira ^a   Komori, Sadao ^a   Bessho, Hideo ^b  

^a IWATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRUIT TREE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apple; Columnar type; Cytokinins; GC MS SIM; IAA

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745601082     PISSN: 18823351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2503/jjshs.75.224     Document Type: Article

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