knowledge of environmental and ecological factors as well as growth and development pattern of fruit trees is an important task in orchard management and fruit industry. in addition, determination of growth pattern is an important aspect in the orchard management system. in this research, the total photosynthesis rate and growth pattern was measured in nine asian pear cultivars. experiment was ...

Investigations at this and other stations have shown generally that nitrogenous fertilizers exert considerable influence in increasing the yields of grapefruit and other citrus fruits. The factors affecting quality of grapefruit and the relation of nitrogen nutrition to quality have not yet been fully studied with the result that orchard management practices, particularly in Arizona, cannot be ...

The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has become a model for the study of a growing number of human characteristics because of the power of its genetics. Higher cognitive functions, however, might be assumed to be out of reach for the little fly. But the cumulative history of cognitive studies in insects and some of their arachnid relatives, as well as specific probing of the capabilities of ...

The growing interest in studying social behaviours of swarming fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, has heightened the need for developing tools that provide quantitative motion data. To achieve such a goal, multi-camera three-dimensional tracking technology is the key experimental gateway. We have developed a novel tracking system for tracking hundreds of fruit flies flying in a confined cubi...

Plants were grown in two glasshouse compartments under two vapour pressure de®cit (vpd) levels: low vpd was obtained by increasing air humidity with a fogging system, and high vpd was obtained during sunny hours in a greenhouse where air humidity was not controlled. The mean value, of the six driest hours of the day concerning the growing period of the fruits considered, was 1.6 kPa under low v...