Similarities and gradients in growth unit branching patterns during ontogeny in 'Fuji' apple trees: A stochastic approach

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3131-3143

  Renton, Michael ^a   Guédon, Yann ^b,c   Godin, Christophe ^b,c   Costes, Evelyne ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Branching; Flowering; Hidden semi Markov chain; Tree architecture

Indexed keywords

BRANCHING; FLOWERING; HIDDEN SEMI-MARKOV CHAINS; TREE ARCHITECTURE;

DATA REDUCTION; GROWTH (MATERIALS); MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FORESTRY;

APPLE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

MALUS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

BUDS; FRUITS; ONTOGENY; PROBABILITY; TREES;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 33749019101     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erl075     Document Type: Article

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