5-Aminolevulinc acid increases tree yield and improves fruit quality of 'Rabia' and 'Sukkariat-Yanbo' date palm cultivars under hot arid climate

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 441-448

  Al Qurashi, Adel D ^a   Awad, Mohamed A ^a,b  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Faculty of Agriculture Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

5 Aminolevulininc acid; Chlorophyll; Date palm; Growth; Phoenix dactylifera L.; Quality; Yield

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHLOROPHYLL; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; GROWTH RATE; MONOCOTYLEDON; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

PHOENIX DACTYLIFERA;

EID: 79956365650     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2011.04.014     Document Type: Article

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