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Horticultural Crops Culture and Management: Fruit and Nut Crops 1

Saturday, July 25, 2009: 4:15 PM
Jefferson C (Millennium Hotel St. Louis)
Moderator:
R. Paul Schreiner
4:15 PM
Cytokinin for Chemical Fruit Thinning of Asian Pears
Daniel L. Ward, Assistant, Extension, Specialist, Rutgers University, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station; Winfred Cowgill, Rutgers Cooperative Extn; Neil Vincent, Consutling Research Pomologist; Rebecca Magron, RCE of Hunterdon County; Thomas Gianfagna, Professor, of, Plant, Physiology, Rutgers University, School of Environmental and Biological Science
4:30 PM
Does Foliar-Applied Phosphorus Influence Vine P Status, Mycorrhizal Fungi, or Fruit Yield and Quality of ‘Pinot Noir' Grapevines?
R. Paul Schreiner, USDA ARS HCRL
4:45 PM
Water Relations and Net Carbon Assimilation Rate Response In Two Commonly Used Pecan Rootstocks
Leonardo Lombardini, Texas A&M Univ; Astrid Volder, Texas A&M University; Hermann Restrepo Diaz, National University of Colombia
5:00 PM
Effects of Nitrogen, Potassium, Irrigation and Crop Load On Honeycrisp Fruit Quality
Sergio Lopez Cuevas, Cornell University; Terence Robinson, Cornell University
5:15 PM
ReTain Can Increase Nutmeat Yield of Pecan Trees
Bruce Wood, USDA ARS; Richard Heerema, New Mexico State Univ
5:30 PM
Development of Citrus Cultivars Resistant to Huanglongbing Disease by Transformation with Amp Genes
Kim D. Bowman, USDA-ARS; Greg McCollum, USDA ARS USHRL; Randall Niedz, USDA-ARS; Ed Stover, USDA-ARS; Ute Albrecht, USDA–ARS; Richard Stange, USDA ARS USHRL
5:45 PM
Yield and Postharvest Quality Attributes of Date Palm Are Affected by Sub-Optimal Irrigation During Fruit Development
Rashid Al-Yahyai, PhD, Sultan Qaboos University; Latifa Al-Kharusi, Sultan Qaboos University; Fahad Al-Said, Sultan Qaboos University; Hayder Abdel Rahman, Sultan Qaboos University
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