Apple Dwarfing Rootstocks and Interstocks Affect the Type of Growth Units Produced during the Annual Growth Cycle: Precocious Transition to Flowering Affects the Composition and Vigour of Annual Shoots | Zendy

Alla N. Seleznyova | Zendy; D.S. Tustin | Zendy; T.G. Thorp | Zendy

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Apple Dwarfing Rootstocks and Interstocks Affect the Type of Growth Units Produced during the Annual Growth Cycle: Precocious Transition to Flowering Affects the Composition and Vigour of Annual Shoots

Author(s) -

Alla N. Seleznyova,

D.S. Tustin,

T.G. Thorp

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

annals of botany

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.567

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1095-8290

pISSN - 0305-7364

DOI - 10.1093/aob/mcn007

Subject(s) - dwarfing , shoot , rootstock , biology , vegetative reproduction , horticulture , botany , plant stem , lateral shoot , axillary bud , explant culture , biochemistry , in vitro

Precocious flowering in apple trees is often associated with a smaller tree size. The hypothesis was tested that floral evocation in axillary buds, induced by dwarfing rootstocks, reduces the vigour of annual shoots developing from these buds compared with shoots developing from vegetative buds.

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