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Agronomy, 2022 Most apple cultivars produce too many flowers to enable consistent yields of high-quality fruit, thus, crop load management (thinning) is an integral part of orchard management in modern apple cultivation.
Ramandeep Singh Sidhu +2 more
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International Journal of Fruit Science, 2023 “Washington Navel” orange is the principal mid-season maturing cultivar grown in south-eastern Australia. The cultivar has strong export potential and earns high returns for citrus growers. However, trees bear a large number of small-sized fruit in an on-
Tahir Khurshid, G. P. Sanderson
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Agriculture, 2019 Fruit size declines in strawberries (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) as the season progresses in many subtropical areas, possibly due to inadequate leaf area, over-cropping, or high temperatures.
Christopher M. Menzel
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The King Fruit versus Lateral Fruit Thinning Effects on Yield and Fruit Quality in Apple
International Journal of Fruit Science, 2007 ABSTRACT This research was conducted to determine the king versus lateral fruit thinning effects on yield and fruit quality of ‘Elstar’, ‘Granny Smith’, ‘Starkrimson Delicious’, ‘Ultra Red’, ‘Topred’, and ‘Jonagold’ apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) cultivars grafted on MM106 rootstock in 2002-2003.
Ümran Erturk
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Thinning Methods Effect on Yield and Fruit Quality of Date Palm Cv. Saqei [PDF]
Journal of Plant Production, 2023 Thinning fruit is regarded as one of the most important horticultural activities related to fruit size and quality. The experiment was carried out during two (2020 and 2021) seasons at the Training and Research Station, King Faisal University, (KSA) to ...
A. Sallam
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IMPROVEMENTS OF YIELD AND FRUIT QUALITY OF ZAGHLOOL DATE PALM BY USING THE DIFFERENT THINNING TREATMENTS [PDF]
Journal of Productivity and Development, 2019 Different hand thinning treatments were conducted on Zaghloul date palm cultivar to study their effects on bunch yield and fruit quality. Seven thinning treatments; (1) control (no thinning), (2) Thinning by removing 25% the bunches number/ palm in ...
Osama Zagzog +3 more
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Heading of shoots and hand thinning of flowers and fruits on 'BRS Kampai' peach trees [PDF]
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2017 : The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of shoot heading and of hand thinning in different development stages of flowers and fruits on the fruit production and quality of 'BRS Kampai' peach (Prunus persica) trees.
Paula Duarte de Oliveira +4 more
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Mechanical Thinning of Mandarins with a Branch Shaker
HortTechnology, 2020 Thinning is the process of removing some flowers or fruit to increase fruit size at harvest. In the Valencia region of Spain, the thinning operation for citrus fruit (Citreae) is performed for some mandarin varieties.
Coral Ortiz +3 more
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Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2021 The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of chemical thinning with metamitron on fruit of the Maciel and Sensação peach (Prunus persica) tree cultivars, as well as to identify its relation to the carbohydrate content in their branches.
Caroline Farias Barreto +6 more
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EFFECT OF HAND THINNING ON YIELD AND FRUIT QUALITY OF "MURCOTT " TANGOR [PDF]
Journal of Plant Production, 2014 This study was carried out during the seasons of 2011- 2012 and 2012 -2013 to evaluate the effect of hand thinning on yield and fruit quality of ‘Murcott’ tangor.In this respect, hand thinning was carried out three times, at the last week of July (after ...
A. Shalan, B. Samra
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