Analyzing Fruit Tree Architecture: Implications for Tree Management and Fruit Production

Horticultural Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-61

  Costes, E ^a   Lauri, P E ^a   Regnard, J L ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Adult tree training fruit load effects on tree growth, architecture and ecophysiology; Architectural analysis in fruit trees quantitative studies of fruit tree topology, meristem and shoot mortality; Fruit thinning consequences; Fruit tree architecture analysis for tree management and fruit production; High yield performance of fruit crops "orchard system puzzle"; Initial choices of grower and young tree training; Plant architectural analysis and development of new approaches to horticulture; Rootstock effects; Tree architecture consequences for tree training, orchard management and fruit production; Tree development and initial fruit production

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EID: 84960289157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470767986.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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