Olive HarvestVant, a new harvest-aid formulation for improving fruit abscission and mechanical harvesting

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 791 PART 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 257-263

  Birger, R ^a   Abd ElHadi, F ^a   Ronen, A ^b   Cohen, E ^b   Ankorion, Y ^c   Najjar, A ^d   Moreno, J ^e  

^a Ministry of Agriculture   (Iceland)

^b Agrovant Ltd   (Iceland)

^c Israel Chemicals Fertilizers (ICLF)   (Iceland)

^d Department of Fertilizers and Chemicals ^*  (Iceland)

^e Agro Technica Del Sur   (Spain)

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EID: 55049111131     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2008.791.36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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