Weather During Bloom Affects Pollination and Yield of Highbush Blueberry
- 1 June 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 103 (3) , 557-562
Abstract
Weather plays an important role in spring-blooming fruit crops due to the combined effects on bee activity, flower opening, pollen germination, and fKeywords
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