Reduction of fruit load affects early fruit growth in apple by enhancing carbohydrate availability, altering the expression of cell production-related genes, and increasing cell production

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 253-262

  Dash, Madhumita ^a,b   Johnson, Lisa Klima ^a   Malladi, Anish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell division; Cell expansion; Fruit size; Source sink relationship; Thinning

Indexed keywords

MALUS; MALUS X DOMESTICA; NAJA;

EID: 84880819593     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.138.4.253     Document Type: Article

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