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Year 2024 - Volume 31 - Issue 1
7 June 2024

12 articles found

Navigating the frontiers of smart horticulture: innovations and challenges

Boris Basile et al.

Horticulture faces crucial decisions and opportunities that will shape its future trajectory. The sector must navigate through a myriad of persistent and significant challenges. For instance, poor aut...

Rootstocks for the Mediterranean citrus industry: current choices and new releases

Marco Caruso et al.

Modern citriculture relies on the use of rootstocks to guarantee adaptability to environmental and biotic constraints and to speed up the establishment of a potentially unlimited number of homogeneous...

Guidelines for the choice of stone fruit rootstocks

Gregory A. Lang

Rootstocks for stone fruits (Prunus spp.) provide numerous and diverse production benefits, not least of which is the ability to produce high quality improved clonal fruit varieties, but also f...

Guiding principles in the Geneva^® apple rootstock breeding program

Gennaro Fazio, Terence Robinson

The Geneva^® apple rootstock breeding program has been operating for more than 50 years and through a rigorous breeding and selection process has released several rootstocks that have provid...

“Extreme hybrids” from the Australian citrus rootstock breeding program

Malcolm W. Smith et al.

Citrus is one of the most genetically diverse fruit trees used by humans, and yet few rootstock breeders have ventured beyond a narrow range of parents. For the last 25 years we have explored wider gr...

The selection of appropriate rootstock and training system towards sustainable production of stone fruits

Ignasi Iglesias, Ramon Botet

In stone fruit species, such as peach, cherry, apricot and plum labour requirement is important ranging from 45% to 71% of the total cost of production. In this sense, combining size controlling roots...

UC Davis Controller Rootstocks for peach: their background and how they work

Ted DeJong

Unlike the situation with apples, until recently, there have been few commercially acceptable size-controlling rootstocks available for peach production. Nearly forty years ago a program was initiated...

Citrus rootstock breeding in an HLB-endemic environment with an industry in crisis

Jude W. Grosser et al.

The arrival (2005) and rapid establishment in Florida of the most devastating disease known to citriculture, namely Huanglongbing or Citrus Greening Disease, has caused dramatic changes to the long-te...

Bioinoculants for sustainable production of saffron spice and by-products: overview and prospects

Stefania Stelluti, Valentina Scariot

The dried red stigmas of Crocus sativus L. are the precious spice known as saffron. Also called “red gold”, saffron has the highest price among spices due to the intense manual labour required ...

Assessing the levels of soil water availability that minimize the damage of heatwaves to potted grapevines

Walaa Shtai et al.

The adverse effects of heatwaves on viticulture could be, at least partly, mitigated by generous soil water availability. As climate change will also likely reduce irrigation water, knowing to which e...

Productive and qualitative profile of unexploited microgreen genotypes from Brassicaceae, Chenopodiaceae, Asteraceae and Portulacaceae families

Anna Bonasia et al.

Microgreens combine visual, taste, flavor and bioactive qualities based on genetic selection, making them a gastronomic novelty. In the present study, ten microgreen genotypes were investigated in ter...

Reduced application of a plant growth regulator may increase yield and added net return of processing tomato in mediterranean climate conditions

Christophe El-Nakhel et al.

Among the most valuable horticultural produce, tomato is cultivated for both fresh consumption and processing purposes. Therefore, good agricultural practices secure better production and income for f...

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