Ce projet fera appel à des recherches fondamentales en vue de comprendre la cible et le moment d'action de diverses matières organiques qui serviront à orienter le plan de mise en œuvre et de gestion d'un nouvel éclaircissant de fleurs. La stagiaire éprouvera l'efficacité de vingt matières organiques d'intérêt potentiel à titre d'agent éclaircissant des […]

The project will utilize basic research to understand the target and time of action of the organic materials which will be used to guide the implementation and management plan for a new blossom thinner. The intern will test the efficacy of twenty candidate organic materials to act as blossom thinners and develop a management plan […]

The recently introduced variety, Honeycrisp, is well-suited to the Annapolis region. Already planted in over 350 acres, Honeycrisp sells for four times the price of other apples. Unfortunately this variety has a major flaw – a tendency to biennial bearing through a strong tendency of producing only spurs and no substantial shoot growth. We need […]