Tergitol-TMN-6 Surfactant Is an Effective Blossom Thinner for Stone Fruits

Rootstock Breeding for Stone Fruits

Over the last 20 years stone fruit rootstock development has begun shifting from seedling to clonal types, many of interspecific origin. Publicly funded breeding programs have produced most of these rootstocks due to the time, cost, and risk associated with their development; however, private industry is emerging as a significant contributor of many of the newer rootstocks. Particularly notewor...

Bacterial Canker of Stone Fruits

Vitamin D Food Fortification is an Effective Approach for Improving Vitamin D Status; A Systematic Review

Background: Low vitamin D (vit D) serum levels have been linked to various diseases such as multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes. Maintenance of optimal vit D level should be supported by foods and supplements. Limited food sources of vit D made researchers focus on food fortification in recent years. Methods: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials reporting th...

Is physician detection associated with thinner melanomas?

CONTEXT In cutaneous melanoma, tumor depth remains the best biologic predictor of patient survival. Detection of prognostically favorable lesions may be associated with improved survival in patients with melanoma. OBJECTIVE To determine melanoma detection patterns and relate them to tumor thickness. DESIGN Interview survey. SETTING AND PATIENTS All patients with newly detected primary cut...

Is Hesaabdaaree an Adequate Equivalent for Accounting?

Some of the difficulties and misunderstandings that happen in accounting theory, practice, regulation and education are grounded in language and linguistics. As an illustration of this the Persian equivalent of 'accounting' is linguistically analysed to reveal how a mistranslation may cause difficulties in understanding and improving Iranian Accounting. This paper shows how Hesaabdaaree is not ...