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Quantification of Nutrients Lost by Annual Pruning, Leaf Abscission, and Fruit Harvest in Four Pear Cultivars Open

Naiwen Zhang, Jie Wang, Caixia Dong · 2025

The nutrients removed by the fruit harvest, pruning, and fallen leaves in pear orchards are meaningful to creating reasonable suggestions regarding fertilizer recommendations. Thus, we determined the biomass as well as the concentrations o…

Reasonable Water–Fertilizer Ratios Regulate Fruit Cell Development and Improve the Quality of Fragrant Pear in China’s Extreme Arid Regions Open

Li, Tianle · 2025

Eight-year-old grafted fragrant pear trees (Pyrus sinkiangensis ‘Korla’) were used as the test material, and the rootstock is Pyrus betulifolia. The spacing between plants and rows is 1×4m. The flowering, fruiting, and overall growth and d…

Reasonable Water–Fertilizer Ratios Regulate Fruit Cell Development and Improve the Quality of Fragrant Pear in China’s Extreme Arid Regions Open

Li, Tianle · 2025

Eight-year-old grafted fragrant pear trees (Pyrus sinkiangensis ‘Korla’) were used as the test material, and the rootstock is Pyrus betulifolia. The spacing between plants and rows is 1×4m. The flowering, fruiting, and overall growth and d…

Widespread pollination deficits in pear (Pyrus communis L.) orchards: The role of pollinators, landscape context and pesticide risk Open

Lucia Lenzi, Xavier Arnan, Jordi BOSCH, Adele Bordoni, Laura Zavatta , et al. · 2025

A European Début: The Asian Parasitoid Encarsia nipponica Targets the Invasive Aleurocanthus spiniferus in Northern Italy Open

Elena Costi, Daniele Giannetti, Michele Cesari, Carmelo Rapisarda, Andrew Polaszek , et al. · 2025

In this study, the invasive orange spiny whitefly (“OSW”; Aleurocanthus spiniferus) and a species of Encarsia parasitising its puparia were studied in three different areas of the province of Modena (Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy): a pear…

Molecular screening of the pear collection maintained at the Maikop Experiment Station of VIR for scab resistance gene markers Open

A.O. Goncharenko, L.V. Bagmet, M N Petrova, O. Yu. Antonova · 2025

Background : Pear ( Pyrus sp.) is one of the economically important fruit crops grown in 50 countries worldwide. However, pear cultivars are affected by many pathogens, including scab caused by the ascomycete fungus belonging to the genus …

Interplay of Stress Responses in Pear Tree Revealed by Chlorophyll Fluorescence Under Combined Erwinia amylovora Infection and Temperature Stress Open

Ye-Bin Hwang, Kyung Seok Park, Sung Yung Yoo, Tae Wan Kim · 2025

Plants exposed to combined abiotic and biotic stresses often exhibit complex physiological responses that cannot be predicted from single stress factors. In this study, we evaluated the interactive effects of temperature stress and Erwinia…

Behavioral Responses of the Bumblebee Bombus terrestris to Volatile Compounds from Blueberries Open

Yun He, Jiaru Zhang, Ziyang Hu, Yingxue Cao, Kevin H. MAYO , et al. · 2025

Bumblebees are important pollinating insects in crop pollination. Chemical attractants can effectively improve the flower-visiting efficiency of bumblebees, thereby increasing blueberry yields. To identify volatile compounds that attract b…

Pyrus communis subsp. caucasica (Fed.) Browicz Open