Modelling branching patterns on 1-year-old trunks of six apple cultivars.

ABSTRACT: The structure resulting from branching on 1-year-old apple tree trunks was analysed in a set of apple cultivars with diverse branching and fruiting habits. Four different lateral types borne on successive nodes were observed when vegetative and flowering fates, as well as sylleptic and proleptic branching, were taken into account. The location and grouping of lateral types along the trunk were analysed for all cultivars, but are detailed for one cultivar only. This cultivar showed a succession of zones, each zone being characterized by its composition of lateral types. Statistical models-hidden semi-Markov chains-were built to take this structure into account and to characterize the cultivar's specific branching pattern. The models showed that most of the branching zones had a similar loca

SUBMITTER: Costes E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4233888 | biostudies-literature | 2002 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature