The effects of mechanical pruning on fruit yield and quality in 'Star Ruby' grapefruit

Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 834-838

  Yildirim, Bilge ^a   Yeşiloǧlu, Turgut ^a   Incesu, Meral ^a   Kamiloǧlu, Müge ^b   Özgüven, Faruk ^a   Tuzcu, Önder ^a   Kaçar, Yildiz Aka ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Citrus; Fruit quality; Hedging; Mechanization; Productivity; Pruning; Semi dense; Star Ruby; Topping; Yield

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRUIT SIZE; GRAPEFRUIT; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT YIELD; RHIZOME; SOUR ORANGE; TREE PRUNING; TURKEY (BIRD); VARIETAS;

CITRUS; CITRUS AURANTIUM; CITRUS X PARADISI;

EID: 77952828029     PISSN: 14590255     EISSN: 14590263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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