“…Growth retardants: Complete or partial cessation of vegetative growth favors flower initiation in many orchard species (62). Accordingly, chlormequat, a growth retardant, was used by several workers to reduce the vegetative growth and to induce flowering in grapes (42,49,81,117,164,172,174). Besides promoting inflorescence primordium formation in latent buds, chlormequat induced ~'secondary inflorescences" by transforming the tendrils of the primary shoot and lateral shoots into inflorescences (42,78,150,163).…”