- The Almond
Almonds are members of the Rosaceae rose family, along with many other tree fruits such as peaches, apples, pears, plums, cherries, and apricots. Within the genus Prunus, almond is most closely related to the peach, and the two crops share the subgen ...
http://www.uga.edu/fruit/almond.html
| | - The Balaton Tart Cherry
A new cherry variety, called Balaton named for a lake in its native Hungary, is making its commercial debut in America. This darkskinned European morellotype cherry was first introduced into the United States in 1984 by Dr. Amy Iezzoni, Professor of ...
http://www.hrt.msu.edu/balaton.html
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| | - Plant Disease Control Cherry
Photographs and detailed information on the large number of diseases that can affect this crop and their control. This disease can be the limiting factor against establishing a cherry orchard in the Pacific Northwest. Two common genetic traits increa ...
http://plant-disease.ippc.orst.edu/plant_searchResults.cfm?host_see=Cherry
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- The Seeds of Trade
Civilisation is based on the cultivation of plants, but humans rely on plants for far more than simple foodstuffs. This virtual book, written by Henry Hobhouse, the author of Seeds of Change, and Museum botanist Sandra Knapp, is an introduction to th ...
http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/seeds/
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- The Seeds of Trade Spices
Spices are very important in the history of food, trade and medicine. Pepper was so essential in Roman times that much of the gold extracted from Roman Spain ended up in India; pepper was valued as highly as its weight in gold. When Europeans reached ...
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/seeds-of-trade/print.dsml?ref=spic...
| | - Seeds of Trade Tea
Information on this plant, its origins, early uses, transfer and spread, agriculture and modern context. ...
http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/seeds-of-trade/page.dsml?secti...
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- Hyb Technologies
F1 hybrid varieties ensure high uniformity of the product, give high yields due to heterosis, allow the rapid combination of different traits, and provide a natural protection of breeders’ right. The production of hybrid varieties requires homozygous ...
http://www.hybtech.org/
| | - The Almonds from Bloom to Market
Growing almonds is a busy, year round business in California. The Central Valley’s almond bloom in late February and early March is a highlight for both residents and tourists with soft, pale pink flowers decorating more than half a million acres. ...
http://www.almondboard.com/Resources/content.cfm?ItemNumber=637&snItemNumbe...
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- The Cherries
Cherries are members of the Rosaceae family, subfamily Prunoideae. They occupy the Cerasus subgenus within Prunus, being fairly distinct from their stone fruit relatives plums, apricots, peaches, and almonds. Prunus avium L. is the Sweet Cherry, and ...
http://www.uga.edu/fruit/cherry.html
| | - Biology and Crown Gall
Agrobacterium tumefaciens causes crown gall disease of a wide range of dicotyledonous broadleaved plants, especially members of the rose family such as apple, pear, peach, cherry, almond, raspberry and roses. A separate strain, termed biovar 3, caus ...
http://www.biology.ed.ac.uk/research/groups/jdeacon/microbes/crown.htm
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