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SULTANA vines are pruned to a limited number of one-year-old shoots (canes), each of which may carry up to 20 buds. As canes vary greatly in the proportion of fruitful buds the pruner aims to retain only the more fruitful ones on the vine. Such a selection is possible because the appearance of a cane indicates to some extent its fruiting potential1. But it is not known why canes of comparable origin differ both in appearance and in fruitfulness.
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MAY, P. Effect of Direction of Growth on Sultana Canes. Nature 185, 394–395 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185394a0
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