Russeting and microcracking of 'Golden Delicious' apple fruit concomitantly decline due to gibberellin a4+7 application

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 159-164

  Knoche, Moritz ^a   Khanal, Bishnu P ^b   Stopar, Matej ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cuticular membrane; Malus domestica; Periderm; Strain

Indexed keywords

MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 79957896648     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.136.3.159     Document Type: Article

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