Year: 1992
Type: article
Abstract: Rest-breaking agents less toxic than the commercially-used DNOC/winter-oil and less expensive than hydrogen cyana- mide were tested on Golden Delicious in a high density planting in a region of warm winters. Some combinations of mineral oil and cyanamide were as effective in promoting budbreak as both DNOC/oil and cyanamide but neither treatment improved fruit set or fruit size 12 weeks after treatment, relative to the control. Rest-breaking treatments are seen as one aspect of tree manipulation rather than a direct means of increasing production.
Author: M. S. North
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDGs: Zero hunger, Life on land
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2019778166