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Shade treatments giving 36% full sun or less reduced both hardiness and shoot cross-sectional area of one-year-old sour cherry ( Prunus cerasus L. cv. Montmorency) and peach [ Prunus persica (L.) Batsch cv. Redhaven]. Shade significantly reduced soluble carbohydrate in ‘Redhaven’.
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