Stability of fruit set of newly selected parthenocarpic eggplant lines

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 111-116

  Kikuchi, Kaori ^a   Honda, Ichiro ^a   Matsuo, Satoshi ^a   Fukuda, Machiko ^a   Saito, Takeo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND TEA SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eggplant; Fruit development; Fruit set; Malformed fruit; Parthenocarpy; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CULTIVAR; FRUIT PRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE; VEGETABLE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 36849000720     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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