Spur behaviour in almond trees: Relationships between previous year spur leaf area, fruit bearing and mortality

Tree Physiology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 700-706

  Lampinen, Bruce D ^a   Tombesi, Sergio ^b   Metcalf, Samuel G ^a   DeJong, Theodore M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

leaf area; specific leaf area; spur dynamics; spur mortality; spur productivity

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CARBOHYDRATE; CORRELATION; CROPPING PRACTICE; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS TREE; FLOWERING; FRUIT; GROWING SEASON; LEAF AREA; LIGHT EFFECT; LONGEVITY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MORTALITY; ORCHARD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; SURVIVAL; THRESHOLD;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; FRUIT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; PRUNUS; SUNLIGHT;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; FRUIT; PLANT LEAVES; PRUNUS; SUNLIGHT;

PRUNUS DULCIS;

EID: 80051989230     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpr069     Document Type: Article

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