Horticultural and Physiological Studies

Environmental stress research
  • Heat stress/non-infectious bud failure in almond
  • Water stress/irrigation research with almond, peach, clingstone peach, apricot, cherry, and others
    • Water stress and crop load effects on fruit fresh and dry weights in peach (Prunus persica)
    • Crop load and water stress effects on daily stem growth in peach (Prunus persica)
    • Water stress and crop load effects on yield and fruit quality of Elegant Lady Peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batch]
  • Rain cracking with cherries
Cultural practices/tree physiology research
  • Peach growth habit and crop load
    • Preformation in vegetative buds of Prunus persica: factors influencing number of leaf primordia in overwintering buds
    • Effect of fruit crop load on peach root growth
    • Current-year and subsequent-year effects of crop-load management and epicormic-shoot removal on distribution of long, short, and epicormic shoot growth in Prunus perisca
    • Influence of branch autonomy on fruit, scaffold, trunk, and root growth during stage III of peach fruit development
  • Prune and peach nitrogen requirements
    • Effectiveness of fall versus spring soil fertilization of field-grown peach trees
    • Estimating seasonal nitrogen dynamics in peach trees in response to nitrogen availability
  • Alternate bearing behavior of pistachio and pecan