The Geneva series of apple rootstocks from cornell: Performance, disease resistance, and commercialization

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 622, Issue , 2003, Pages 513-520

  Robinson, Terence ^a   Aldwinckle, Herb ^a   Fazio, Gennaro ^b   Holleran, Todd ^b  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crown rot; Fire blight; Malus domestica; Woolly apple aphid; Yield efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845427415     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2003.622.56     Document Type: Conference Paper

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