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  • Breeding Snap Beans for Organic Agriculture: Quantification and Application of Key Traits

    Creator:
    Park, Hayley E.
    Abstract:
    Improving crop cultivars for use on organic farms is pertinent, as current elite germplasm is less resilient within the more variable context of organic farm environments. Although a growing number of studies have focused on organic plant breeding in cereal crops, very few have focused on vegetable crops, especially those...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Hayley E. Park for

  • Biology of sweet cherry powdery mildew

    Creator:
    Calabro, Jill M.
    Abstract:
    The Pacific Northwest has become one of the nation’s premier sweet cherry, Prunus avium, production areas. As production of sweet cherries has flourished in Oregon and Washington, so has powdery mildew, caused by the fungus Podosphaera clandestina, which infects both foliage and fruit causing severe economic damage to growers. Sweet...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    , grape powdery mildew, E. necator, can overwinter in buds in central California and Italy but