Self-incompatibility and self-fruitfulness in pear cv. Agua de Aranjuez

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 166-171

  Sanzol, Javier ^a   Herrero, Maria ^b  

^a Agrifood Institute of Aragón IA2   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fruit drop; Fruit set; Parthenocarpy; Pollen tube growth; Pyrus communis; Self fertility

Indexed keywords

PYRUS; PYRUS COMMUNIS;

EID: 34047217352     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.132.2.166     Document Type: Article

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