Improvement in yield and fruit size and quality of the main Italian table olive cultivar 'Nocellara del Belice'
Olive (Olea europaea L.) shows alternate bearing, with unreliable cropping patterns and inconsistent fruit size and quality every year. In many countries, thinning with naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) is used to minimise alternate bearing behavior in olives. However, in Italy, growers are reluctant to...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
2014-02-01
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| Series: | Scientia Agricola |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162014000100007&lng=en&tlng=en |