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Creator:: Tvergyak, Paul J.
Abstract:: Oregon's Willamette Valley sweet cherry growers have developed a market for large, high quality, stem-on brining cherries. The maturity indices pull force (PF), percent soluble solids (SS), and weight (Wt) were chosen as being the most probable indicators of maturity. The rate of change of PF during the harvest period...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: wish to thank my wife, Pat, for her encouragenaent and understanding;. TABLE OF CONTENTS

Creator:: Bunnag, Sumonthip
Abstract:: Quince (Cydonia oblonga Mill.) is widely used as a dwarfing rootstock for pear {Pyrus communis L.). The disadvantage of this rootstock is its inefficient uptake of Fe, resulting in leaf chlorosis. Application of tissue culture and gene transfer techniques may lead to production of quince clones with improved Fe efficiency....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Tim Righetti, Pat Hays, Tom Savage and Bill Proesting for their help, suggestions, and comments on

Creator:: Scott, James Douglas
Abstract:: Mechanisms by which plant organs accumulate photoassimilate are important in determining final sink size and may involve invertase activity. Because strawberry fruit are strong sinks for sugars, changes in invertase levels during development and mechanisms of sugar uptake within the fruit were examined. Fruit from greenhouse-grown, day-neutral strawberries, (Fragaria X...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: a special thanks to my advisor, Pat Breen, whose support, concern and humor made everything

Creator:: Tanino, Karen K.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and elsewhere provided valuable insight into my research. In particular, I thank Dr. Pat Breen for

Creator:: Suwanagul, Anawat
Abstract:: Volatile compounds of eight pear varieties were isolated and identified by GC/MS. A total of 112 components were identified from headspace of intact fruits, including 47 compounds reported for the first time in pear. The volatile profiles of these pear varieties were characterized by esters, alcohols, hydrocarbons, aldehydes and ketones....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Pat Breen for serving as my committee members. Thanks are also due to Dr. Mina McDaniel for

Creator:: Vaz, Rui Luiz
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: transport, occurring when the fruit weights about 30g. Stebbins and Dewey (353), however, provided some

Creator:: Lattier, Jason D.
Abstract:: Lilacs are a group of ornamental trees and shrubs in the Oleaceae family consisting of 22 to 30 species. There are six series within genus Syringa: Pubescentes, Villosae, Ligustrae, Ligustrina, Pinnatifoliae, and Syringa. Fertility and cross-compatibility among cultivars, species, and series have yet to be formally investigated. Over three years,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: organizations. A special thanks to Dr. Pat Hayes for letting us auction off his legendary moustache. This I

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