[EN] Nadorcott is a well-established and appreciated mandarin by the fresh market. However, it produces seeds due to cross-pollination with other compatible varieties, which is quite frequent in most producing countries. ...
[EN] Fresh market demands high quality fruit and, therefore, citrus growers and researchers are constantly looking for
solutions to avoid seed presence. Current horticultural techniques have low effectiveness or high cost. ...
[EN] Introduction: Domatia are small structures usually located on the underside of leaf, in the axils of the major veins. They are related to a mutualism between plants and small animals (arthropods) such as mites or ants. ...
Sicard, P.; Vas, N.; Calatayud, V.; García Breijo, F.J.; Reig-Armiñana, J.; Sanz, M.J.; Dalstein-Richier, L.(Association Forêt méditerranéenne, 2010)
[IT] In regione mediterranea, nel sud-est della Francia, forti concentrazioni in ozono sono misurate da numerosi anni e i valori AOT 40 superano regolarmente Ie soglie europee di protezione della vegetazione e della foresta. ...
[EN] This study aims to elucidate whether sulfur can inhibit citrus pollination by affecting pollen grains. For this, four sulfur-based products (inorganic sulfur, water dispersible granular sulfur, ammonium sulfate, copper ...
[EN] Between February 2018 and April 2018, flowers were collected from eight Rosaceae species. Flowers were kept in a freezer at -20 degrees C for three freezing times (Treatment 1, two months; Treatment 2, four months; ...
[EN] Phytotron has been widely used to assess the effect of numerous parameters on the development of many species. However, less information is available on how to achieve fast profuse flowering in young fruit trees with ...
Garmendia, Alfonso; Beltrán, Roberto; Zornoza, Carlos; García-Breijo, Francisco-José; Reig, José; Merle Farinós, Hugo Basilio(Public Library of Science, 2019-09-26)
[EN] Background
In Citrus spp., gibberellic acid (GA) has been proposed to improve different processes related to crop cycle and yield. Accordingly, many studies have been published about how GA affects flowering and ...
[EN] Cultivar Macabeo is one of the most planted white grape varieties of northern Spain. A general agreement supports many Vitis vinifera cultivars possibly being self-fertile, although this seems to be a variety-dependent ...
Expósito, Joana R.; Martín San Román, Sara; Barreno, Eva; Reig-Armiñana, José; García-Breijo, Francisco-José; Catalá, Myriam(MDPI, 2019-07)
[EN] Lichens are poikilohydrous symbiotic associations between a fungus, photosynthetic partners, and bacteria. They are tolerant to repeated desiccation/rehydration cycles and adapted to anhydrobiosis. Nitric oxide (NO) ...
[EN] Obtaining citrus fruits without seeds is a recurrent objective for farmers as it is one of the most valued characteristics, especially in mandarins. "Afourer" tangor is a highly valuable well-established mandarin, and ...
[EN] The Canary Islands are famous for their extraordinary biodiversity; however, lichenized algae have only been studied partially. Buellia zoharyi is a circum-Mediterranean/Macaronesian species that usually occurs in ...
[EN] Citrus species have a "wet"-type stigma with abundant exudate, and their style contains numerous canals. For successful seed formation, the process includes pollen grain germination on the stigma, pollen tube development ...