Brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål), injury to late-season apple cultivars was measured at harvest in 2011 and 2012 in commercial orchards in four mid-Atlantic states. In each orchard block, a border zone (adjacent to woods), an interior zone (near orchard center), and an intermediate zone (between border and interior zones) comprised 1-3 tree rows per zone, depending on block ...

The Soil Management Assessment Framework (SMAF) was developed in the U.S.A. and has been used as a tool for assessing and quantifying changes in soil quality/health (SQ) induced by land uses and agricultural practices in that region and elsewhere throughout the world. An initial study using SMAF in Brazil was recently published, but additional research for a variety of soils and management syst...

Abstract In Croatia, farmers are showing increasing interest in establishing walnut orchards for nut production on arable land due to higher anticipated net margins. One way address the lack of profitability initial years when yields low may be plant intercrops. The impacts this practice were assessed using a biophysical simulation model (Yield-SAFE) determine growth and yield crops trees arabl...

Nitrogen fertilization is a basic agrotechnical orchard treatment, and affects quality size of the crops. The aim this study was to assess impact nitrogen on yield sour cherry fruit ‘Łutówka’ cultivar. course climatic conditions in relation timing flowering fruiting analyzed. trials were carried out three different experimental orchards (quarters) with planting dates (1999, 2001 2002) located a...

In 2021, an unprecedented heat event caused widespread damage to tree fruit crops across western North America. a preliminary trial conducted that summer in apple (var. “Fuji”) orchard the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, calcium carbonate-based foliar protectant reduced severe sunburn by 9% and asymmetry 17% but had no other effects on quality, water stress, or leaf gas exchange. With climat...

The present study investigated the effects of alfalfa cover crops on soil fungal communities and function in apple orchards arid desert oases. A five-year orchard was subjected to two treatments: Intercropping with an crop (A) clean tillage (QG). ITS (internal transcribed spacer) region analyzed using Illumina MiSeq high-throughput sequencing technology, determined FUNGuild. Changes community s...

Abstract The current study aimed to screen glyphosate-alternative weed control methods in three perennial crops Greece. Field trials were conducted and repeated (2018 2019 2020) a citrus orchard ( Citrus clementina Hort. ex Tan), an olive grove Olea europaea L.), vineyard Vitis vinifera L.) under the randomized complete block design (nine treatments, four blocks). Glyphosate was applied (720 g ...

`Kent' mango (Mangifera indica L.) ̄owers were sampled in an orchard in the coastal plain of Israel during the 1997 ̄owering season. Effective pollination rate was determined at two stages of the fertilization process: (a) pollen germination on the stigma; (b) pollen-tube penetration into the ovule. Pollination rates were negligible during the ®rst part of the ̄owering season (31 March to 18 Ap...