Blossom thinning in apple and peach with an essential oil

HortScience

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1218-1225

  Miller, Stephen S ^a   Tworkoski, Thomas ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN FRUIT RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Clove oil; Crop load; Defoliation; Eugenol; Malus domestica; Phytotoxicity; Prunus persica

Indexed keywords

MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PRUNUS; PRUNUS PERSICA; SYZYGIUM AROMATICUM;

EID: 77958091709     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.45.8.1218     Document Type: Article

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