Medicinal and Aromatic Plants • Lilium • Fire Blight • Tomato Diseases • Grapevine Breeding and Genetics • Urban and Peri-Urban Horticulture • What Do We Mean by Quality? Food Fights • Intellectual Property: Defining Horticultural Assets and Implications for Horticultural Research and Development • Southern African Society for Horticultural Sciences • Carrot: History and Iconography • The Biolo...

Pear psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola (Foerster) (Homoptera: Psyllidae), is one of the key insect pests in North American pear production. In some growing areas, more than 50% of dollars spent to control arthropod pests in commercial pear are directed specifically at controlling this species. Control measures require accurate and timely information about dispersal, onset of egg-laying in spring, den...

MOTIVATION The Illumina paired-end sequencing technology can generate reads from both ends of target DNA fragments, which can subsequently be merged to increase the overall read length. There already exist tools for merging these paired-end reads when the target fragments are equally long. However, when fragment lengths vary and, in particular, when either the fragment size is shorter than a si...

introduction agricultural research is important and one of the determinant factors of development of technologies in agricultural sector. among agricultural research disciplines, breeding programs, especially, wheat breeding programs are one of the applied approaches in improving of production and food security. based on a study by byerlee & traxler (1995), economic benefits and internal rate o...

We conducted simple sequence repeat (SSR) analyses of 15 traditional quince (Cydonia oblonga) cultivars from Anatolian gene sources for molecular characterization and investigation of genetic relationships. Three pear and two apple cultivars were used as references for SSR locus data analysis and to determine allele profiles between species. Eight SSR loci that were developed from apple and pea...

the present research was conducted to determine the percent self-incompatibility in some asian pear (pyrus serotina rehd.) as well in european pear (pyrus communis l.) cultivars. the experiment was carried out during 2006 and 2007 growing seasons. pollen grains were collected and tested for viability using in-vitro pollen culture. for microscopic examination of pollen tube growth in the style, ...

Antonakos for the PEAR apathy project. Their great work helped this dissertation generate rigorous and fruitful findings. I also want to thank two NIH/NINR-funded studies— " Wandering: Background and Proximal Factors " (PI: Algase) and " Bioburden Predictors of Diabetic Ulcer Complications " (PI: Gardner)—for providing access to research samples and resources. I am extremely grateful for my dis...