29 Jul 2024
During the first six years, the high-density Bibaum® and spindle systems showed higher cumulative per-hectare yields than other breeding systems, while the medium-density UFO and spindle systems showed less rapid entry into production.
26 Jul 2024
The ‘Cherry Production Handbook’ is an essential technical material that will facilitate the tasks of producers in the fields, in terms of varieties and rootstocks, main planting systems and management, among other topics.
26 Jul 2024
The research utilized in silico approaches to examine the interactions between the essential oil components, mainly neral and geranial, and three key protein targets: γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors, acetylcholinesterase (AChE), and glutathione S-transferase (GST).
26 Jul 2024
Some of this work was also carried out in other external farms belonging to their customers, located in different parts of Spain, Azerbaijan or Georgia: where the homogenisation of flower products is being tested.
25 Jul 2024
The Belgian study focused on sweet cherry trees and observed the interaction between bumblebees and honeybees. The presence of bumblebees, particularly wild queens, was found to significantly influence honeybees’ behavior; they increased the row-switching frequency by ten times.
25 Jul 2024
Yamagata Prefecture accounts for almost 80% of the national cherry production, but this year's harvest is likely to be much lower than expected. The extremely hot weather has produced low quality cherries, unsuitable for shipment.
24 Jul 2024
The company is only 8 years old but has already followed 3,000 hectares in Italy and around the world. ‘We follow the whole project from the beginning. The agronomists - says Alexandra Caminschi - are all Italian and we rely on on-site managers who can pass on our know-how'.
24 Jul 2024
‘Our company has been granted exclusive propagation rights in the US for the KIR™ series of sweet cherries,’ reports Kevin Brandt. Three of the most advanced selections have already been branded with the trade names KIR Rosso®, KIR Lamour® and KIR Vulcano®.
23 Jul 2024
Researchers from the academies of agricultural and forestry sciences in Beijing (China) used the cherry cultivar ‘Haiying 1’, which is extremely resistant to crown gall, and ‘Gisela 6’, a cherry cultivar susceptible to crown gall, for grafting.
23 Jul 2024
Three separate methodologies, namely the YOLOv8s, RtmDET MM Detection and DETR Transformer algorithms, were trained on the generated hybrid dataset and compared with each other. The YOLOv8s algorithm showed the best performance as a result of the training.
