Fruit productivity and quality of eight years peach and nectarine cultivars (Rich Lady, Ryan Sun, Ruby Diamond and Venus) grafted onto Cadaman-Avimag, Viking, Atlas, GxN 15, GF 677, MRS 2/5 and Nemaguard (control) rootstocks were evaluated. A Split Plot experimental design was used, with each rootstock/scion combination as an experimental unit. Total yield, fruit size distribution, number of fr...

clementine mandarin (citrus clementina) is one of the suitable/marketable citrus species in north of iran; however, as a disadvantage has small fruits. in order to produce new citrus cultivar with large and good quality fruit, a project with four phases was conducted from 1989 until 2009. the first phase was started with controlled cross pollination between clementine mandarin as maternal, and ...

The nutritional quality of many fruits and vegetables is regulated by pre-harvest management factors that can be manipulated to attain desired standards. In this study, the impact seed nanopriming on phytochemical composition watermelon was studied. Seeds two varieties namely: River Side (diploid) Maxima (triploid) treated with nanomaterials (silver nanoparticle turmeric nanoemulsion) along unt...

harvesting of sour cherries is very difficult task which is done either by machine or hand. in order to facilitate fruits harvesting ethephone with different densities is used. in this research work iranian produced ethephone with density of 1.18 g/cm3 and england produced ethephone with density of 1.45 g/cm3 was utilized with different concentration (0, 150, 225 and 300) in a 2×4 factorial exp...

in this study, a landrace melon zarde jalali as the scion and commercial varieties of cucurbita rootstocks cv., shintozwa and ferro-rz was used as the rootstock. grafted plants upon commercial varieties of cucurbita with own-rooted and ungrafted at three irrigation levels of 60, 80 and 100% (respectively 4984.32, 6124.82 and 7239.41 m3ha-1) based on total available water depletion with drip irr...