the purpose of this research was to assess the influence of several orchard systems involving trees trained to different leader numbers on growth, cropping, and fruit quality of two apple cultivars. the study was conducted during 1994-2007 at the fruit experimental station in samotwór, next to wrocław (south-western poland). one-year-old trees of ‘elstar’ and ‘jonagold’ cultivars on the m.9 roo...

The role of fruit bearing percentage in olive fruit fly infestation is investigated through a simulation model where the spatial law of dispersion distances were modeled via an appropriate exponential law. The dispersal of olive fruit flies was simulated for two distinct cases, an olive grove with no olive fruits and an olive grove with 100% olive fruit bearing. Results showed that when no oliv...

Carbon partitioning in the leaves of Cucumis sativus L., a stachyose translocating plant, was influenced by the presence or absence of a single growing fruit on the plant. Fruit growth was very rapid with rates of fresh weight gain as high as 3.3 grams per hour. Fruit growth was highly competitive with vegetative growth as indicated by lower fresh weights of leaf blades, petioles, stem internod...

The impact of phenylphthalamic acid (PPA) rates including 0 (PPA0), 1000 (PPA1000), 2000 (PPA2000) or 3000 (PPA3000) mg L-1 and perfect fertilizer rates including 0 (PF0), 100 (PF100), 200 (PF200) and 300 (PF300) mg L-1 was studied on vegetative and reproductive growth of ornamental pep...

the person, who, on his way, encounters a fruit-bearing tree belonging to others, can eat from its fruit as much as fulfilling his need, provided that his reaching to that tree has been accidental rather than on purpose; and that he should not take away any fruit with him and damage a tree or a fruit. in this respect, the owner’s consent is not considered a sine qua non. the reason for this rul...

The present study was carried out for three successive seasons 2008/2009, 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 on fifteen years old of olive trees cv. Picual to reduce the degree of alternate bearing through fertilization by NPK over than the rates recommended by the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands Reclamation. The obtained results showed that, fertilizing olive trees with 50% over NPK recommended doses i...

HPLC analyses of phenolics in the stigma of fruit bearing and fruitless plants of Kigelia pinnata syn. K. africana (Bignoniaceae) was made. The HPLC chromatograms showed higher peaks and higher number (9) phenolic compounds in the stigmas of fruitless plants at Agra. On the other hand, the peaks were low and there were only 8 and 7 phenolics in the stigmas of fruit bearing trees at Jammu and De...