HortScience · 1974 · 36 citations · 6 references
AgricultureAgronomyHorticultural SciencesCrop ProductionFruit ScienceTree-crop InteractionsFruit BreedingOrchard ManagementRoot CropsRootstock BreedingRootstock ManagementTree BreedingApple ProductionFruit Tree ProductionHigh-density Orchard SystemsHigh-density OrchardsRootstock Cultivar DevelopmentRootstock Production
Abstract The apple industry throughout the world has been shifting from the large, “standard” tree, with its massive, non-economic cambial surface, and its attendant massive machinery, to much more compact units. Orchard densities have changed from 65 trees/ha to densities of 350 to 2000 trees/ha.
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W S Rogers, A. Beryl Beakbane · Annual Review of Plant Physiology · 1957 · 94 citations
Genetical studies in cultivated apples
Michael Crane, W. J. Lawrence · Journal of Genetics · 1933 · 46 citations
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