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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Concept Breadcrumbs

Plant Production, Gardening > plant cultural practices > pruning > chemical pruning
Preferred Term:

chemical pruning

Definition:
The application of agricultural chemicals to remove the quantity of vegetative or reproductive plant parts on an individual plant in order to alter the shape, growth pattern, flowering or fruiting of a plant.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
pruning
Related Concepts:
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/130713
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RDF/XMLCreated 2009-07-29, last modified 2012-11-30