Evaluation of cold hardiness in seven iranian commercial pomegranate (punica granatum L.) cultivars

HortScience

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1821-1825

  Soloklui, Ali Akbar Ghasemi ^a   Ershadi, Ahmad ^a   Fallahi, Esmaeil ^b  

^a BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbohydrate; Cold hardiness; Electrolyte leakage; Pomegranate; Proline; Tetrazolium stain test

Indexed keywords

LYTHRACEAE; PUNICA GRANATUM;

EID: 84871893410     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.47.12.1821     Document Type: Article

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