Influence of repeated pollination on seed number and fruit shape of 'Fuji' apples

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 137, Issue , 2012, Pages 131-137

  Matsumoto, Shogo ^a   Soejima, Junichi ^b   Maejima, Tsutomu ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARO Institute of Fruit Tree Science (NIFTS)   (Japan)

^c Nagano Fruit Tree Experiment Station   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lopsided fruits; Malus domestica; Pollinizer; S RNase

Indexed keywords

CULTIVAR; DECIDUOUS TREE; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FLOWER VISITING; FRUIT; FRUIT PRODUCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; ORCHARD; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; SEED PRODUCTION; SEED SET;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); MALUS X DOMESTICA; OSMIA CORNIFRONS;

EID: 84857220453     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2012.01.033     Document Type: Article

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