Pollination is critical to fruit production, but the interactions of pollination with plant resources on a plant's reproductive and vegetative features are largely overlooked. We examined the influences of pollination, irrigation and fertilisation on the performance of almond, Prunus dulcis, in northern California. We used a full-factorial design to test for the effects of pollination limitatio...

Breeding programs for horticultural tree crops focus on enhancing productivity, including developing tolerance to pests and diseases improving crop quality. Pollination services are often critical production, pollen parents can affect We do not know which produce highest quality offspring or, in self-compatible cultivars, how much of the comes from cross- versus self-pollination. quantified pro...

The almond, which is a member of the Rosaceae family, is the fruit of the almond tree (Prunus dulcis). It has a hard endocarp that contains a seed covered by a rough, brownish skin. Unlike other prunoid fruits, which have an edible mesocarp and an outer skin known as the epicarp, the almond fruit has an epicarp and a mesocarp that are diffi cult to separate and have no nutritional or commercial...

Aflatoxigenic aspergilli inflict major economic damage to the tree nut industry of California, with the highest negative impact to almonds. Aspergilli and fungi in general are known to emit volatiles in varying quantity and composition dependent upon their growth media. The goal of the study was to determine the volatile emission of whole and blanched almonds that had been picked out and labele...

Kernels of cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) possess an enormous nutritional and technological potential. However, the almond is less consumed processed by food industries in Côte d’Ivoire. The present study aims to bring added value kernel. effect this extract was tested on fermentative activity two lactic bacteria (Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp bulgaricus Streptococcus salivarius thermophi...

BACKGROUND The identity of allergenic almond proteins is incomplete. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to characterize patient IgE reactivity to a recombinant and corresponding native almond allergen. METHODS An almond cDNA library was screened with sera from patients with allergy for IgE binding proteins. Two reactive clones were sequenced, and 1 was expressed. The expressed recombinant allergen...