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Filtering by: Creator Hauck, M. File Format application/pdf Subject Apples -- Oregon -- Hood River -- Growth

Alternative orchard floor management practices, soil quality, nitrogen fertilizeruptake, and apple tree growth and yield

Creator:

McDonald, Sarah Finger

Abstract:

Orchard floor management (OFM) practices can improve soil function and alter the soil biological community. Soil function is dependent on soil forming materials and on management practices but little is known about how OFM affect orchard soil quality, fertilizer N uptake, or tree growth and production. Research plots were located...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Full Text:

dwarfing M26EMLA rootstock) and Hood River, OR (HR) (M. x domestica ‘Red Delicious’ grafted on M7EMLA