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Mechanical Crop Load Management (CLM) Improves Fruit Quality and Reduces Fruit Drop and Alternate Bearing in European Plum (Prunus domestica L.)

Horticulturae, 2020
(1) Background: With ca. 10 million tons of annual production worldwide, the plum (Prunus ssp.) ranks as a major fruit crop and can suffer from small fruit size, premature fruit drop and alternate bearing, which are addressed in this paper using a range ...
Sebastian Lammerich, Achim Kunz, Lutz Damerow, Michael Blanke   +3 more
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Crop Load Management in Nashi Pear—A Review

Horticulturae, 2022
Most nashi cultivars require heavy thinning, and this has traditionally been performed by the time and labour-intensive practice of hand thinning. Crop load management is a key cost driver for nashi production, but there are limited cost-effective ...
Sally A. Bound
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A Review of Cultural Practices for Botrytis Bunch Rot Management in New Zealand Vineyards

Plants, 2022
Botrytis bunch rot of grapes (BBR) causes substantial crop and wine quality issues globally. Past and present foundations for BBR control are based upon synthetic fungicides and varying forms of canopy management.
Dion Charles Mundy, Philip Elmer, Peter Wood, Rob Agnew   +3 more
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Harnessing Natural Disturbances: A Nature-Based Solution for Restoring and Adapting Dry Forests in the Western USA to Climate Change

Fire, 2023
Natural disturbances (wildfires, droughts, beetle outbreaks) shaped temperate forests for millennia, including dry forests of the western USA. Could they now best restore and adapt dry forests to climate change while protecting nearby communities ...
William L. Baker, Chad T. Hanson, Dominick A. DellaSala   +2 more
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Mechanical flower thinning in peach trees [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura
In cultivation of peaches, thinning is conventionally performed on fruits by hand, and needs to be done in a short time and with specialized labor, which increases the operational costs of this practice.
Caroline Farias Barreto, Luis Eduardo Correa Antunes, Letícia Vanni Ferreira, Renan Navroski, Jorge Atílio Benati, José Francisco Martins Pereira   +5 more
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Mechanical Thinning in Cling Peach [PDF]

HortScience, 2006
Production of extra-early cling peach varieties in California typically results in a $988 per hectare loss for Sacramento Valley growers, based on a 2004 University of California cost analysis study. This net loss is due to a number of factors, including lower yields than late-harvested peaches; and pruning, thinning, and harvest labor.
Kitren Glozer, Janine Hasey
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Tuning gastropod locomotion: Modeling the influence of mucus rheology on the cost of crawling [PDF]

, 2006
Common gastropods such as snails crawl on a solid substrate by propagating muscular waves of shear stress on a viscoelastic mucus. Producing the mucus accounts for the largest component in the gastropod's energy budget, more than twenty times the amount ...
A. E. Hosoi, Buyssens N., Davies M. S., Davies M. S., Denny M. W., Denny M. W., Denny M. W., Denny M. W., Denny M. W., Deyrupolsen I., Donovan D. A., Eric Lauga, Farmer W. M., Fretter V., Gainey L. F., Gray J., Jones H. D., Kideys A. E., Lissmann H. W., Lissmann H. W., Miller S. L., Moffett S., Morton J. E., Morton J. E., Parker G. H., Trueman E. R., Vlès F.   +26 more
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Endocortical bone loss in osteoporosis: The role of bone surface availability [PDF]

, 2012
Age-related bone loss and postmenopausal osteoporosis are disorders of bone remodelling, in which less bone is reformed than resorbed. Yet, this dysregulation of bone remodelling does not occur equally in all bone regions. Loss of bone is more pronounced
Ausk, Bauchau, Beaupré, Bell, Boivin, Bonewald, Buenzli, Buenzli, Buenzli, Carter, Carter, Compston, Cooper, Currey, Feik, Feng, Grimal, Hambli, Hellmich, Hjelmstad, Huiskes, Iwamoto, Jang, Jee, Keaveny, Komarova, Landau, Lee, Lemaire, Lora, Manolagas, Manson, Martin, Martin, Martin, Mertz, Meulen, Oers, Orwoll, Parfitt, Pivonka, Pivonka, Pivonka, Pivonka, Poliachik, Rieger, Rizzoli, Robling, Rumpler, Ryser, Seeman, Skerry, Stein, Takata, Thomas, Thomas, Timoshenko, Uebelhart, Verborgt, Warner, Webster, Zebaze   +61 more
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New Tools for Mechanical Thinning of Apricot Fruitlets

Agriculture, 2021
In this study, the thinner machine with yellow rod equipment was tested in relation to tree branch length and orientation in April 2019, in a narrow-canopied apricot orchard of Emilia Romagna Region, Italy. The trees were mechanically thinned with manual
Alberto Assirelli, Giuseppina Caracciolo, Giancarlo Roccuzzo, Fiorella Stagno   +3 more
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Nonlinear mechanics of thin frames

Physical Review E, 2019
The dramatic effect kirigami, such as hole cutting, has on the elastic properties of thin sheets invites a study of the mechanics of thin elastic frames under an external load. Such frames can be thought of as modular elements needed to build any kirigami pattern. Here we develop the technique of elastic charges to address a variety of elastic problems
Moshe, Michael, Esposito, Edward, Shankar, Suraj, Bircan, Baris, Cohen, Itai, Nelson, David R., Bowick, Mark J.   +6 more
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