Pre-harvest foliar desiccation of Yellow Globe Danvers onions was
investigated as a means to improve harvest procedure and to reduce
storage losses. Foliar desiccation tended to increase storage disease
and sprouting incidence versus the untreated controls. Paraquat
approximately doubled storage disease in both years. Stoddard solvent
and ethephon increased disease...
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...
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....
Leaf and fruit seasonal mineral fluctuations, fruit endogenous
ethylene, maturity and quality of 'Starkspur Golden Delicious' apple
(Malus domestica Borkh.) on six rootstocks: Seedling, Mailing (M)1,
M7, M26, Mailing Merton (MM)106, OAR-1, in a high density orchard
with two levels of each of the soil applied potassium (K₂SO₄) and
nitrogen...
Field survivals of strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) runner plants
dug from December to April in both 1979 and 1980 were above 9C% when
planted about May 1. When plants from the same digging dates were
planted in early June, survival of March-dug 'Olympus' declined to
88% and survival of late-April-dug...