Floral behaviour and fruit set in four cultivars of aubergine

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 579, Issue , 2002, Pages 259-264

  Khah, E M ^a   Antonopoulos, A ^b   Passam, H C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Eggplant; Flowering; Style

Indexed keywords

SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 33747351919     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2002.579.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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