Blueberry splitting tendencies as predicted by fruit firmness

HortScience

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 567-570

  Marshall, Donna A ^a   Spiers, James M ^a   Stringer, Stephen J ^a  

^a USDA ARS Thad Cochran Southern Horticultural Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Fruit splitting; Rabbiteye blueberry; Southern highbush blueberry

Indexed keywords

VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM CORYMBOSUM; VACCINIUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 41149104447     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.43.2.567     Document Type: Article

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