How young trees cope with removal of whole or parts of shoots: An analysis of local and distant responses to pruning in 1-year-old apple (malus × domestica; rosaceae) trees

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 98, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1737-1751

  Fumey, Damien ^a   Lauri, Pierre Éric ^a   Guédon, Yann ^a   Godin, Christophe ^a   Costes, Evelyne ^a  

^a UMR AGAP   (France)

Author keywords

Branching; Malus domestica; Manipulation; Plasticity; Rosaceae; Tree architecture

Indexed keywords

CULTIVAR; FLOWERING; FRUIT; GEOMETRY; GROWTH RATE; ORCHARD; PRUNING; SHOOT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THINNING;

ARTICLE; FLOWER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALUS; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; SEASON; TREE;

FLOWERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MALUS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT STEMS; SEASONS; TREES;

CHUBU; FUJI; HONSHU; JAPAN; SHIZUOKA [CHUBU];

MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA; ROSACEAE;

EID: 84858406589     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1000231     Document Type: Article

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