New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science 1996

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Volume 24/Number 1/March 1996

• Preliminary screening of apple germplasm for resistance to silverleaf infection
• Virus disease surveys of ware potato crops, Franklin County, North Island, New Zealand
• Mycotoxins in New Zealand maize: a study of some factors influencing contamination levels in grain
• Improvement in kiwifruit storage life caused by withholding early-season irrigation
• Influence of extended photoperiod on photosynthate partitioning and export in tomato and pepper plants
• Variation in harvest and storage quality of fruit from different positions on kiwifruit vines
• Pollination compatibility of `Sundrop' apricot and its progeny in the `Clutha' series
• Some factors influencing fruit set in `Sundrop' apricot
• Effect of sowing date and nitrogen on dry matter and nitrogen partitioning in malting barley
• Role of nitrogen and dry matter partitioning in determining the quality of malting barley
• Short communication: Occurrence of a stable nitrate reductase in Actinidia spp.
• Short communication: Occurrence of multiple shoots bearing flowers arising from single axillary buds on kiwifruit canes treated with hydrogen cyanamide
• Short communication: Temperature effects on bruise darkness of `Granny Smith', `Golden Delicious', and `Jonathan' apples
• Short communication: A stress-, pathogenesis-, and allergen-related cDNA in apple fruit is also ripening-related
• Short communication: Chilling requirement of commercial Echinacea seed
• Short communication: Comparison of fructose production by 37 cultivars of Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.)

Volume 24/Number 2/June 1996

• Leafroller phenology and parasitism in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, canefruit gardens
• Past and present status of virus and phytoplasma diseases in apple rootstocks in New Zealand
• Changes in sugar, protein, respiration, and ethylene in developing and harvested Geraldton waxflower (Chamelaucium uncinatum) flowers
• Non-destructive measurement of kiwifruit firmness
• Preharvest and storage quality of `Braeburn' apple fruit grown under water deficit conditions
• Effect of timing and intensity of drought on the growth and yield of field peas (Pisum sativum L.)
• Effect of irrigation on fruit quality of table olives (Olea europaea), cultivar `Ascolana tenera'
• Effect of organic mulches and a residual herbicide on soil bioactivity in an apple orchard
• Protein synthesis inhibitors accelerate the postharvest senescence of asparagus and induce tiprot
• Heat production and respiration by broccoli florets during senescence at 20deg.C
• Silver thiosulphate reduces ethylene-induced flower shattering in Thalictrum delavayi

Volume 24/Number 3/September 1996

• Differentiation of a specific Trichoderma biological control agent by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis
• Molecular markers for a Trichoderma harzianum biological control agent: introduction of the hygromycin B resistance gene and the [[beta]]-glucuronidase gene by transformation
• Susceptibility of cereal and non-cereal grasses to attack by Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor (Say))
• Greedy scale, Hemiberlesia rapax (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), phenology on kiwifruit leaves and wood
• Nationwide survey of arthropods and molluscs on cut flowers in New Zealand
• Aspects of microclimate variation within apple tree canopies and between sites in relation to potential Venturia inaequalis infection
• Evaluation of fungicides for control of Alternaria leaf spot of Pseudopanax
• Comparison of four new devices for measuring kiwifruit firmness
• Cross pollination of `Sundrop' apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) by honeybees
• Book review

Volume 24/Number 4/December 1996

Breeding and genetics

• Production of triploid Zantedeschia hybrids using embryo rescue
• Tissue culture of Ranunculus lyallii Hook. f.

  Entomology

• Abundance and diversity of beneficial arthropods in conventional and "organic" carrot crops in New Zealand
• Phenology and relative abundance of Ceroplastes destructor and C. sinensis (Hemiptera: Coccidae) on citrus in Northland, New Zealand
• Electroantennogram and oviposition responses of Epiphyas postvittana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) to plant volatiles

  Pathology

• Potato virus S^A -- characteristics of an isolate from New Zealand
• Assessment of seed tuber, in-furrow, and foliar chemical treatments for control of powdery scab (Spongospora subterranea f.sp. subterranea) of potato

  Physiology

• Flowering and fruiting rootless cuttings of kiwifruit
• Observations of diurnal decline of photosynthetic gas exchange in kiwifruit and the effect of external CO₂ concentration

  Postharvest

• Postharvest treatments to increase water uptake and the vase life of Leptospermum scoparium Forst.

  Production

• Using early-season measurements to estimate fruit volume at harvest in kiwifruit
• Fruit colour, leaf nitrogen level, and tree vigour in `Fuji' apples
• Crop loading studies with `Royal Gala' and `Braeburn' apples: effect of time and level of hand thinning

  Short communications

• Variation in fruit shape in three pear hybrid progenies
• Pattern of water extraction by grapevines on two soils in the Waikato, New Zealand

  Book review

• Book review

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