PHENOLOGY OF LOW-CHILL `FLORDAPRINCE' PEACH

Effect of foliar fertilization of boron, zinc and iron on fruit growth and yield of low-chill peach cv. Sharbati

This field experiment was carried out at Horticultural Research Centre, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (U.K.), India, during two consecutive years 2010 and 2011 on 7 years old peach trees cv. Sharbati. The experiment was designed in RBD to study the effect of foliar spraying of boron, zinc and iron and its combination on fruit growth pattern and yield attributing ...

Effect of post-harvest salicylic acid treatments on fruit quality of peach cv. "Flordaprince" during cold storage

Peach [Prunus persica (L.) Bastch.] "cv. Flordaprince" fruits at commercial maturity were immersed in 0, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 mM salicylic acid (SA) solution for 10 min, stored at 0 ◦ C for 28 days, then moved to 20 ◦C for 3 days to simulate shelf life. Fruit weight losses, firmness, TSS, acidity, Vit.C, sugars, anthocyanin, total phenols and two enzymes namely peroxidase and polyphenol oxidase act...

Phony Peach and Peach Mosaic

Chill Radar News

This is the seventh edition of the Colorado State University (CSU)-CHILL newsletter which we distribute on an annual basis, near the start of the academic year. The newsletter is intended to provide information to the community regarding research, education, and refurbishment activities of the CSUCHILL facility. In April 1995 Colorado State University was awarded a second five-year Cooperative ...

DNA, just chill

Cardio(lipin) workout beefs up mitochondrial impor ts Mitochondria depend on imported proteins. Kutik et al. show how a protein keeps this molecular traffi c fl owing by helping manufacture a key membrane lipid. Almost all of the 1,000 or so different proteins mitochondria need to operate are made elsewhere in the cell. After crossing a mitochondrion's outer membrane, proteins follow one of two...