Colour development in fruit of Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis ‘Hort16A’, the new yellowfleshed cultivar produced commercially in New Zealand, was monitored during three seasons in four 42 New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science, 2003, Vol. 31 The pericarp of ‘Hort16A’ fruit changes from a light green colour to a light yellow colour as fruit develop on the vine. Virtually no co...

This chapter presents the incorporation and use of regular vines into Estimation of Distribution Algorithms for solving numerical optimization problems. Several kinds of statistical dependencies among continuous variables can be taken into account by using regular vines. This work presents a procedure for selecting the most important dependencies in EDAs by truncating regular vines. Moreover, t...

WHIGHAM, D. 1984. The influence of vines on the growth of Liquidambar styraciflua L. (sweetgum). Can. J. For. Res. 14: 37-39. The effect of vines on diameter growth of Liquidambar styraciflua L. (sweetgum) in a 40-year-old abandoned field was measured by vine removal experiments. Removal of vines from the trunk, branches, and ground had a significant positive effect on growth during each of the...

The black-rot fungus, Myeosphaerella melonis (Pass.) Chiu and J. C. Walker, was first reported in France in 1891 on leaves of a Chinese variety of cucumber {CueUQyiis sativus L.) (¡^i) .^ It was recorded the next year from Delaware on vines of watermelon {Gitrullus vulgaris Sehr ad.), squash {Cucúrbita spp.), pumpkin {Cucúrbita pepo L.), muskmelon {Cucumis meló L.), and cucumber {3). Grossenbac...

BACKGROUND The potential of systemic neonicotinoid insecticides to control potato leafhopper, Empoasca fabae (Harris), a damaging pest of wine grapes in the eastern United States, was investigated. Soil or foliar applications were made to potted or field-grown vines, and the response of leafhoppers was determined in clip cages over the following month on young or mature leaves. RESULTS Foliar...

Bud necrosis (BN) of grape is observed as an abortion and drying of one or more primordia of the developing compound winter bud. The causes are uncertain, but high vigor, and canopy shade increase BN incidence under some conditions. This work was conducted to determine if localized carbohydrate or mineral nutrient deprivation increased the incidence of BN observed with ‘Riesling’ grapes in Virg...