Sweet cherry fruit firmness and postharvest quality of late-maturing cultivars are improved with low-rate, single applications of gibberellic acid

HortScience

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1010-1017

  Einhorn, Todd C ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Turner, Janet ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

'Lapins'; 'Skeena'; 'Sweetheart'; Plant growth regulators; Prunus avium; Surface pitting

Indexed keywords

PRUNUS AVIUM;

EID: 84883017850     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.48.8.1010     Document Type: Article

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