Asian pear germplasm - Future trends and current research in the industry

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 587, Issue , 2002, Pages 61-69

  Nee, Cheng Chu ^a   Tsai, Chung Han ^a   Anstine, Daniel D ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

(High, Medium, Low) chilling requirement; Germplasm; HCR; LCR; MCR; Nursemaid culture; Pear

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249101941     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2002.587.3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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