Effects of girdling and bark inversion on tree growth and fruit quality of apple

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 451, Issue , 1997, Pages 579-585

  Arakawa, O ^a   Kanno, K ^a   Kanetsuka, A ^a   Shiozaki, Y ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flowering; Fruit behavior; Leaf chlorophyll; Malus domestica; Trunk's girth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879547602     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.1997.451.67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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