Tree Fruit Research Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Wenatchee, WA, 98801Taylor And FrancisJournal of Plant NutritionRaese, J.T. and D.C. Staiff. 1988. Chlorosis of 'Anjou' pear trees reduced with foliar sprays of iron compounds. J. Plant Nutr. 11...
This soft skin in result of the starch converts into sugar after being picked from a tree to ripen. In US it is produced by the states in the Northwest, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and California. The different shape of a pear says of its luscious nature. Pears of all sizes and...
We applied reflective fabric (Extenday™) to alleyways of pear orchards to investigate the influence of fabric on canopy light interception and distribution, fruit set, fruit growth rate, average fruit size, yield, fruit firmness, and postharvest quality. Sites included a multi-leader ‘d’Anjo...
Tree vigor, fruit size, leaf N, and fruit N were highest for trees receiving the late winter, moderate rate of N. Yield was lowest, but fruit firmness, fruit quality and fruit calcium (Ca) concentrations were highest for trees treated with the late winter, low rate of N. The incidence ...
TREE cropsAPPLESCultivated pear consists of several Pyrus species with Pyrus communis (European pear) representing a large fraction of worldwide production. As a relatively recently domesticated crop and perennial tree, pear can benefit from genome-assisted breeding. Additionally, comparative...
Fruit from the lower portion of the tree had a significantly higher calcium concentration and lower K/Ca and N/Ca ratios than fruit from the top of the tree. The combination of lower calcium concentrations and greater shoot growth in normal and wet treatment trees may have explained the ...
The effect of pre-harvest light microclimate on ‘d’Anjou’ pear fruit quality from harvest through to cold storage and ripening on fruit grown in open vase pear tree canopy was investigated. Light penetration was used to determine the light availability at different positions within the tree ...
Dry matter (DM) has recently been proposed as a new quality index for apple, inspiring similar investigations in other tree fruit crops. Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) enables the nondestructive estimation of DMand other quality attributes, although the accuracy and reliability of this technology ...
The objectives of this study were to investigate the light penetration-based light microclimate within ‘d’Anjou’ pear tree canopy with open-centre architecture, and its relationships with fruit quality at harvest and with ripe fruit quality after cold storage. ...
Collectively, these results implicate P-Ca as a powerful tool for precision-management of tree vigor in intensive pear plantings via selective treatment to areas of high vigor.doi:10.1016/j.scienta.2014.02.003Pasa, Mateus S.Einhorn, Todd C....