Dwarfing peach trees and development of fruit quality by maintaining partially ringed bark strips as an innovative process in dwarfing technology

Botanical Studies

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 251-257

  Sharif Hossain, A B M ^a   Mizutani, Fusao ^a   Onguso, Justus M ^a   El Shereif, Ali Ramadan ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dwarfing peach; Fruit quality; Partial ringing

Indexed keywords

PRUNUS; PRUNUS PERSICA;

EID: 33748417183     PISSN: 1817406X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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