Altitude effects on fruit morphology and flour composition of two chestnut cultivars

Scientia Horticulturae

Volumn 176, Issue , 2014, Pages 311-318

  Silvanini, Annalisa ^a   Dall'Asta, Chiara ^a   Morrone, Lucia ^b   Cirlini, Martina ^a   Beghè, Deborah ^a   Fabbri, Andrea ^a   Ganino, Tommaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Castanea sativa Mill.; Elevation; Fatty acids; Fruit characteristics; Proximate analysis

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CULTIVAR; FRUIT; GENOTYPE; MORPHOLOGY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84905378925     PISSN: 03044238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scienta.2014.07.008     Document Type: Article

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