Olive cultivation in the southern hemisphere: Flowering, water requirements and oil quality responses to new crop environments

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Torres, Mariela ^a   Pierantozzi, Pierluigi ^a   Searles, Peter ^b   Cecilia Rousseaux, M ^b   García Inza, Georgina ^b   Miserere, Andrea ^b   Bodoira, Romina ^c   Contreras, Cibeles ^a   Maestri, Damián ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chilling requirements; Fatty acids; Irrigation; Oil concentration; Oil yield; Olea europaea L; Water requirements

Indexed keywords

EID: 85034053666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.01830     Document Type: Review

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