Posts Tagged: fuerte
From a 'Butterfly Wish' to a Tarantula Named 'Peaches'
What a grand event! When the University of California, Davis held its annual campus "Take Your...
Roxanne Bell, 7, of Davis, decided that Peaches, the rose-haired tarantula, "tickles!" Watching her reaction at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, during "Take Your Daughers (And Sons) to Work" Day is Joel Fuerte, 6, of Woodland. Their mothers work at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Joel Fuerte, 6, of Woodland, eagerly listens to children's author S. S. Dudley, a retired UC Davis scientist. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Children's author S. S. Dudley draws the attention of a crowd listening as he talks about the morpho butterflies. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Avocado Pollinizers
A trial planted in Oxnard involved eight different pollinizer varieties at three different distances from 'Hass' tree rows. Yield data collected from 2002 – 2005 suggest that the presence of pollinizer varieties in close proximity enhance the total number of fruit harvested from ‘Hass'. The influence of pollinizers on yield diminishes as the distance from the pollinizer variety increases. Differences were detected between pollinizer varieties in terms of influencing ‘Hass' yield. The highest ‘Hass' yields were observed when ‘Fuerte', ‘Zutano' and ‘SirPrize' were used as the pollinizer. The lowest cumulative yield was observed when ‘Harvest', an A-Flower type was used. Small but significant differences were also detected in percent dry weight, fruit and seed length/width ratio and seed size. For a more complete description of the trial see:
http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/datastore/234-2475.pdf
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