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... 'Baotong' is a new strawberry cultivar developed by crossing 'Benihomalei' with 'Camarosa'. The fruit is neat, the fruit surface is flat, the taste is good, and the firmness is moderate. The largest fruit mass reaches 44.7 g. Soluble solid content accounts for 10.3%. The fruit firmness is 0.58 kg/cm2. Compared with the 'Toyonoka' and 'Benihoppe', 'Baotong' is more resistant to powdery mildew and s ...
... ‘Lapins’ sweet cherry was planted on ten cherry rootstocks in several Alpe-Adria countries (Germany, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia) in spring 1997. Tabel Edabriz, Weiroot 13, Weiroot 72, Weiroot 158, GiSelA 4, GiSelA 5, GiSelA 195/20, PiKu 4.20 = PiKu 1 and MaxMa 14 were tested and compared with F12/1. Tree vigour (canopy volume and trunk cross-sectional area), yield, yield efficiency and frui ...
... ‘Ningyu’ has been released from the breeding programme at Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences since 2010. It is a new, early fruiting and balanced aroma cultivar with anthracnose resistance, which is derived from ‘Sachinoka’ × ‘Akihime’ in 2005. Plant characterization, fruit weight and color, total titrable acidity, organic acid, sugar, ascorbic acid and antioxidant capacity were evaluated. C ...
abortion (plants); crop yield; cultivars; early development; orchards; seedlings; seeds
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... ‘Şebin’ is a Persian walnut cultivar that originated as a seedling in Şebinkarahisar, and has become a standard in many walnut producing areas of Turkey. The popularity of ‘Şebin’ is due to its high kernel ratio, nut quality, precocity and excellent yield. The mean nut weight varied from 9.95 to 12.40 g, kernel weight from 6.25 to 7.85 g, and the kernel ratio was between 61.0 and 64%. However, fru ...
cultivars; juices; diploidy; small fruits; total soluble solids; table grapes; fruit maturity; Vitis; firmness; taste
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... 'Tankeumchu' (Vitis sp. × V. vinifera) is a new table grape cultivar that is diploid, mid-ripening and black-fruited with large cluster. It has mean bud burst on April 24, full blooming on June 1, and fruit maturity on September 10. It has an excellent taste with abundant juice and soft firmness. The mean weight of berries is 7.0 g, and mean content of soluble solids is 18.0°Brix. 'Tankeumchu' is ...
Lilium; food crops; genes; high-throughput nucleotide sequencing; hybrids; interspecific hybridization; marker-assisted selection; ornamental plants; phenotype; plant breeding; polyploidy; research and development
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... Lily breeding has become an important economic activity in the last 50 years. Within this period breeding has changed from making end-products that were mainly interspecific hybrids from the section Sinomartagon to polyploid hybrids that are derived from intersectional crosses. Especially the Longiflorum × Asiatic hybrids or LA hybrids and the Oriental × Trumpets or OT hybrids have become dominant ...
Cyclamen; bark; business enterprises; coir; cold season; commercial horticulture; corms; culture media; flowers; growers; horticultural crops; income; landscapes; leaves; market prices; measuring devices; peat; perlite; pest management; plant growth; production costs; trade; South Africa
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... Cyclamens are considered an important crop for winter to supplement the income of enterprises during the cold season. Container grown cyclamens are considered an expensive commercial horticultural crop where growth media is seen as a factor which contributes significantly to the production costs. The economic landscape in South Africa dictates that production costs are kept as low as possible with ...
... Phalaenopsis is one of the important economic orchids in the world. To date, thousands of Phalaenopsis cultivars have been bred and commercialized. In order to introduce unique characteristics of the spur structure from the flower of Amesiella into Phalaenopsis germplasm, intergeneric hybridization between Phalaenopsis ‘Sogo Yukidian’ and Amesiella philippinensis were conducted by artificial polli ...
Eriosoma lanigerum; Erwinia amylovora; Malus; Phytophthora cactorum; agronomic traits; apples; bioassays; branches; crossing; dwarfing; early development; fire resistance; flooded conditions; fruit quality; fruiting; genotype; hybrids; immunity; pests; planting; rootstocks; scions; seedlings; shoots; suckering; trees
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... Contemporary dwarfing and semi-dwarfing root stocks cultivated extensively worldwide lack durable resistance to economically damaging pests and diseases. In recognition of these limitations, a series of hybrid families was created in 1986-87 by crossing resistance sources Malus âRobusta 5â and âAoteaâ (Malus seiboldii) to maternal parent âMalling 9â (M.9) dwarf rootstock. More than 10, ...
... Seven species of chestnut ( spp.) and most of the possible hybrid combinations of these species are growing in plantings maintained by The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES). In 2011, Asian chestnut gall wasp (Dryocosmus kuriphilus) was found for the first time in these plantings, and had clearly been present for at least two years. Some of the individual trees of the species have ...
... Ten-year-old ‘Chuliang’ longans were used to study the effects of different mulching materials on soil temperature, moisture, organic matter and pH in longan orchards. There were 5 treatments; T1: soil surface under the tree canopy was covered with a piece of black plastic film; T2: soil surface under the tree canopy was mulched with corn (Zea mays Linn.) straw; T3: area under the tree canopy was ...
Litchi; breeding; buds; chilling requirement; color; cultivars; economic valuation; flowering; flowers; fruit quality; fruit set; pericarp; phenology; planting; pruning; seedlings; shoots; sugars; temperature; trees; China
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... A very early season litchi strain ‘9919’, derived from seedlings of the cultivar ‘991’, was selected by the Litchi Selection and Breeding Group of the South China Agricultural University. Based on preliminary evaluation, mid-term evaluation and orchard planting of the strain, the biological characteristics such as phenology, shoot growth, flowering, fruit set and so on were observed and main econo ...
chromosome number; chromosomes; cultivars; diploidy; fruits; leaves; mixoploidy; rootstocks; seed germination; seed set; seedlings; total soluble solids; trees; China
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... ‘Lieye’ is a rare longan cultivar with split leaves first found in Guangxi Province in 2001. Young leaves from the grafted trees of ‘Lieye’ in Guangzhou were used to observe chromosome numbers by improved carbol fuchsin staining method and wall degradation hypotonic method. Some main fruit traits of ‘Lieye’ were also observed. The results showed that 23.53% of leaf cells contained 15 chromosomes, ...
B. Lampinen; S. Upadhyaya; V. Udompetaikul; G. Browne; J. Roach; S. Metcalf; W. Stewart; L. Contador; C. Negron; I. P. Gomez; B. Beede; C. DeBuse; D. Doll; R. Duncan; J. Edstrom; R. Elkins; E. Fichtner; J. Grant; J. Hasey; B. Holtz; K. Kelley; B. Krueger; F. Niederholzer; J. Olson
almonds; canopy; global positioning systems; hazelnuts; microprocessors; new variety; olives; orchards; peaches; pears; photosynthetically active radiation; pistachios; pruning; soil fumigation; tree growth; walnuts; wavelengths
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... A second generation mobile platform has been developed and used for measuring midday canopy photosynthetically active radiation interception in orchard systems. The system is equipped with a global positioning satellite (GPS) system and uses 800 photodiodes to measure light in the wavelength of photosynthetically active radiation and is adjustable to row widths of approximately 3 to 11 meters. It ...
... Chestnut trees come very close to representing the archetypal tree crop. They are very long lived; most species of Castanea form very large trees. Examples of Castanea sativa in Italy known to be more than one thousand years old provide annual harvests of delicious, nutritious, easily harvested, easily stored food. Because a mature chestnut orchard resembles a temperate hardwood forest in both str ...
... Introgression of fire blight resistances from wild apples to develop high quality apple cultivars is an important breeding strategy of the Agroscope apple breeding programme. In order to obtain parental material suitable for cultivar breeding several pseudo-backcrosses with high quality parents are required. On F2 progeny plants of Malus Ãrobusta 5 a low-input fast-track breeding approach was app ...
Castanea; Dryocosmus kuriphilus; Megastigmus; Torymus; biological control; natural enemies; parasitoids; United States
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... The Asian chestnut gall wasp, Dryocosmus kuriphilus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), is a globally invasive pest of Castanea. Population regulators and geographic range expansion of the Asian chestnut gall wasp in North America with focus on natural enemy recruitment have been evaluated. After the initial discovery of the gall wasp in the U.S., there were biological control releases that included Megasti ...
... During the 90s in Tucuman, north of Argentina, the Active Germplasm Bank (BGA) of strawberry was established and initiated its collection with an interdisciplinary vision. The main objectives of BGA are: collect, preserve, propagate, provide researchers and investigate strawberry germplasm, for breeding programs and for different research lines. The BGA is a national and regional reference of stra ...
Butea; adults; blood pressure; cortex; males; oral administration; plant extracts; rats; roots; stele; traditional medicine
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... Butea superb (BS) root has been used for Thai traditional medicine. It was believed for its sexual performance increasing property in aged person. There was a report that administration of B. superba root ethanolic extract orally everyday for a period of time to male rats could induce penile erection by increasing intracavernous pressure. However, acute effect of the single oral administration of ...
... Transferring plants from their native environments to new geographic regions and particularly from the northern to the southern hemisphere and vice versa is frequently somewhat problematic. Many plant species and particularly those with defined photoperiodicity for their reproductive development require considerable periods of adaptation. This is especially critical when the transfer is aimed for ...