Effect of location in the canopy on the colour development of three apple cultivars during growth

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2450-2458

  Unuk, Tatjana ^a   Tijskens, L M M ^b   Germšek, Blaž ^a   Zadravec, Peter ^c   Vogrin, Andrej ^a   Hribar, Janez ^d   Simčič, Marjan ^d   Tojnko, Stanislav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Fruit Growing Centre   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Biological variation; Braeburn; Colour; Fuji and Gala apples; Indexed nonlinear regression analysis; Modelling

Indexed keywords

PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; COLOR; ENVIRONMENT; FRUIT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALUS; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE;

COLOR; ENVIRONMENT; FRUIT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALUS; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LEAVES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 84864826496     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: 10970010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.5651     Document Type: Article

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