Effects of cooling temperature and duration on flowering of the nobile dendrobium orchid

HortScience

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1765-1769

  Yen, Christine Yung Ting ^a   Starman, Terri W ^a   Wang, Yin Tung ^b,c   Niu, Genhua ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Matsui Nursery Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling requirement; Dendrobium nobile; Flower induction; Flower initiation

Indexed keywords

DENDROBIUM; DENDROBIUM NOBILE; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 52449085210     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.43.6.1765     Document Type: Article

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