• Container Fumigation of Table Grapes • Ozone and Table Grapes / Stone Fruit • Ozone and Citrus • SO2 Low Emission Rates to Control Botrytis • CO2 Effects on ‘Thompson Seedless’ Table Grapes • CO2 Effects on ‘Redglobe’ Table Grapes • Pomegranate Postharvest Fungicide Update • Postharvest Abstracts • Future Events COOPERATIVE EXTENSION University of California Kearney Agricultural Center 9240 S...

Apple chlorotic leaf spot virus (ACLSV) is the type member of the Trichovirus genus, the family Flexiviridae (Martelli et al., 1994; Adams et al., 2004) and is known to infect most pome and stone fruit tree species, including apple, peach, pear, plum, almond, cherry and apricot (Lister, 1970; Németh, 1986). ACLSV has a worldwide distribution and induces a large variety of symptoms in sensitive ...

The term kernel is derived from a word that can be traced back to c. 1000 and originally meant a seed (contained within a fruit) or the softer (usually edible) part contained within the hard shell of a nut or stone-fruit. The former meaning is now obsolete. It was first used in mathematics when it was defined for integral equations in which the kernel is known and the other function(s) unknown,...

peach genotypes showing notable fruit and tree traits were selected in ardabil and east azarbaijan provinces of iran. genotypes were grafted on seed rootstocks and cultured with 4×4 m spacing. traits such as tree growth habit, flowering, maturity, morphological and qualitative fruit characteristics were described in 15 peach genotypes using ibpgr peach descriptors during the 2005-2007 seasons. ...

Adaptability of Fruit Flies (Bactrocera calumniata H.) to Cucurbitaceae Host Plants in the Highlands Bali. from family are one host plants for fruit flies. grow highlands and lowlands. One pests is Bactrocera calumniata. Symptoms attacked by B. having small holes that ooze fluid caused puncture ovipositor female flies after a long time becomes soft texture smells rotten. The research was conduc...

What is an olive? Well, botanically speaking, the fruit of the olive tree is a drupe, or stone fruit, and is cultivated on all continents (Figure 1), but the olive is much more than a fruit — it’s a symbol. Olives and the trees that bear them are mentioned in The Odyssey, the Quran, the Torah, and the Bible, just to name a few. Representing peace, abundance, and victory, this divine fruit has i...

The Effects of Stone Fruit Extract on the Process of Platelet Aggregation in Vitro. (July 2011) Peter M. deLeeuw Department of Biomedical Sciences Texas A&M University Research Advisor: Dr. Luis Cisneros-Zevallos Department of Horticulture This project attempts to examine the impact stone fruits can have on the clotting of blood in the human body. Plum rich anthocyanin extract (RAE) was added i...

Two different gas chromatography coupled to quadrupole-time of flight mass spectrometry (GC-QTOF-MS) methodologies were carried out for the analysis of phytosterols and tocopherols in the flesh of three mango cultivars and their by-products (pulp, peel, and seed). To that end, a non-polar column ((5%-phenyl)-methylpolysiloxane (HP-5ms)) and a mid-polar column (crossbond trifluoropropylmethyl po...