Attempts to Control the Growth of Apple Trees Using Single Virus Infections

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Attempts to reduce the growth of Lord Lambourne apple trees without adversely affecting cropping by using mild strains of single viruses or mycoplasmas were not successful. Of the five different infections used only rubbery wood significantly reduced tree size, but two infections (spy epinasty and decline and rubbery wood) reduced crop weight over an eight-year period. None of the treatments affected the skin colour, time of ripening or the seed number of the fruit.

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