Influence of plant bioregulators on pecan flowering and implications for regulation of pistillate flower initiation

HortScience

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 870-877

  Wood, Bruce W ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternate bearing; Flowering; Flowers; Fruiting; Growth regulators; Irregular bearing; Production; Profit; Staminate flowers literature cited

Indexed keywords

CARYA ILLINOINENSIS;

EID: 79959522221     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.46.6.870     Document Type: Article

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