Mechanical pruning attenuates alternate bearing in 'Nadorcott' mandarin

In Citrus, certain species and/or cultivars are prone to alternate bearing, i.e., a year of heavy crop (ON year) is followed by one of low flowering and light crop (OFF year), and vice-versa. To counteract the fruit effect, we propose a guided mechanical pruning initiated in the spring of an ON year...

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Autores principales: Mesejo, Carlos, Martínez-Fuentes, Amparo, Reig, Carmina, Balasch, Sebastià, Primo-Millo, Eduardo, Agustí, Manuel
Formato: article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/6678
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304423819308799#!

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