Biological variation in the colour development of Golden Delicious apples in the orchard

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2045-2051

  Tijskens, L M M ^a   Unuk, Tatjana ^b   Tojnko, Stanislav ^b   Hribar, Janez ^c   Simčič, Marjan ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Biological variation; Colour; Crop load; Golden Delicious apples; Modelling; N fertilisation; Nonlinear mixed effects regression analysis

Indexed keywords

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 69149111052     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: 10970010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.3689     Document Type: Article

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