To reduce the pesticide load in industrial plantings, it is necessary to use pathogen-resistant varieties when establishing orchards. The problem of obtaining stable, large-fruited, adaptive acute, since there are practically no genotypes existing assortment that combine a complex economically valuable traits with resistance diseases. isolation new genes wild forms and creation resistant fungal...

OBJECTIVE To understand the available evidence of how children and adults differ in their preferences for flavours that may be used in tobacco products. DATA SOURCES A total of 474 articles published between 1931 and August 2015 were retrieved through searches conducted in PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science and PsycINFO. STUDY SELECTION AND EXTRACTION A 2-phase relevancy review process resulted...

Western cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis indifferens Curran (Dipt., Tephritidae), is the major quarantine insect pest of sweet cherry, Prunus avium (L.) L., in the Pacific North-west of the United States. Because of the zero tolerance for larvae in commercial cherries (State of Washington Department of Agriculture, Permanent Order No. 1099, effective 30 September 1968), cherry growers in this regio...

The research presented describes how a technology called Controlled Atmosphere Temperature Treatment System (CATTS), can be used as a quarantine treatment against insect pests of apples, pears and sweet cherries. High temperature forced air has not been useful for these temperate fruit because the heat dose required to kill the target insect pests (codling moth and western cherry fruit fly) cau...