Turning a Pest into a Natural Enemy: Removing Earwigs from Stone Fruit and Releasing Them in Pome Fruit Enhances Pest Control [PDF]
Insects, 2023 The European earwig Forficula auricularia (L.) (Dermaptera: Forficulidae) is an omnivorous insect that is considered a minor pest of stone fruit and a key predator of pests in pome fruit orchards. In many pome fruit orchards, earwigs are absent or in low
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Stone Fruit as Biofactories of Phytochemicals With Potential Roles in Human Nutrition and Health [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 Phytochemicals or secondary metabolites present in fruit are key components contributing to sensory attributes like aroma, taste, and color. In addition, these compounds improve human nutrition and health. Stone fruits are an important source of an array
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Rootstocks for Florida Stone Fruit
EDIS, 2012 Rootstocks have been used in many tree fruit systems to provide growth advantages or pest or disease resistance without affecting productivity and fruit quality. In Florida, stone fruit are grown on rootstocks that specifically provide pest resistance to
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Inhibition of Mineralization of Urinary Stone Forming Minerals by Some Hills Area Fruit Juice [PDF]
E-Journal of Chemistry, 2004 Some hills area fruit, viz., star fruit, butter fruit, seetha fruit, and watermelon have been investigated as inhibitors in the mineralization of urinary stone forming minerals, viz., calcium phosphate, oxalate and carbonate.
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Viroid Diseases in Pome and Stone Fruit Trees and Koch's Postulates: A Critical Assessment. [PDF]
Viruses, 2018 Composed of a naked circular non-protein-coding genomic RNA, counting only a few hundred nucleotides, viroids—the smallest infectious agents known so far—are able to replicate and move systemically in herbaceous and woody host plants, which concomitantly
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High-throughput detection of a large set of viruses and viroids of pome and stone fruit trees by multiplex PCR-based amplicon sequencing. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2022 A comprehensive diagnostic method of known plant viruses and viroids is necessary to provide an accurate phytosanitary status of fruit trees. However, most widely used detection methods have a small limit on either the number of targeted viruses/viroids ...
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Agroclimatic Metrics for the Main Stone Fruit Producing Areas in Spain in Current and Future Climate Change Scenarios: Implications From an Adaptive Point of View. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2022 Stone fruit production has enormous economic importance in Spain. Cultivation locations for these fruit species (i.e., peach, apricot, plum, and sweet cherry) cover wide and climatically diverse geographical areas within the country.
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Listeria monocytogenes Survival on Peaches and Nectarines under Conditions Simulating Commercial Stone-Fruit Packinghouse Operations. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Recent recalls of stone fruit due to potential Listeria contamination and associated foodborne outbreaks highlight the risk for pathogen transmission through stone-fruit consumption.
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Climate-Aware and IoT-Enabled Selection of the Most Suitable Stone Fruit Tree Variety. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2021 The application of new technologies such as the Internet of Things offers the opportunity to improve current agricultural development, facilitate daily tasks, and turn farms into efficient and sustainable production systems.
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Sugar Metabolism in Stone Fruit: Source-Sink Relationships and Environmental and Agronomical Effects. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2020 The partitioning of assimilates in fruits, which are economically important sink organs, is ruled by different physiological processes and affected by both environmental and agronomical factors.
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