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Branching pattern along a peach annual shoot, “Robin” cultivar. First variable: 0 latent bud, 1 isolated floral bud, 2 vegetative bud, 3 sylleptic shoot. Second variable: number (0, 1, 2) of axillary flowers and schematic representation of the shoot as a succession of zones (From Fournier et al., 1998). The segmentation of the parent shoot in branching zones with distinct combinations of vegetative and floral axillary buds is indicated in the lower part of the Figure.
