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Fruit and Nut Information
All of the Categories by Fruits & Nuts : Pear - European
Educational Content, including Basic Crop Information
- Pear Education, reviewed by UC Specialists and Farm Advisors
Content includes: propagation, variety selection, orchard management, deficiencies & pests, photo galleries, crop overview
General Sources
- Pear Genomics Research Network
- Pear Production and Handling Manual
Website for research, extension and industry collaborators involved in pear genomics research
Essential guide to pear production by UC scientists, 2007 (215 pp.) UC ANR Pub. 3483. Link to ANR Catalog for purchase
Models
- Fireblight (Erwinia amylovora): Disease Model for Pear and Apple
- Phenology Model: Codling Moth
- Scab (Venturia pirina): Disease Model for Pear
UC IPM Online
UC IPM Online
UC IPM Online
Newsletters & Blogs: Farm Advisors - Current Topics
- Foothill Farms & Orchard News - Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, and Tuolumne Counties
- Orchard Notes - Lake and Medocino Counties
- Orchard Notes - Tulare County
- Tree & Vine News - Sacramento County
- Tree Pest Updates: Codling Moth - Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
Newsletter by Lynn Wunderlich, Farm Advisor, El Dorado and Amador Counties. Orchard crops in Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, and Tuolumne counties. Apple, pear, stone fruit, cherry, grape, walnut
Newsletter from Rachel Elkins, Farm Advisor, Lake and Medocino counties. Focus on walnut and pear
Newsletter by Kevin Day, Farm Advisor, Tulare County. Primarily stone fruit production and culture, some coverage of apples, pears, cherries, apricots, kiwifruit, persimmons and pomegranates.
Newsletter by Chuck Ingels, Farm Advisor, Sacramento County. Primarily grape, cherry and pear.
Newsletter by Janet Caprile, Farm Advisor, Alameda & Contra Costa Counties. Primarily apple, pear and walnut.
non-University of California Resources
- Crop Profile for Pears in California (pdf)
- Fruit & Nut Trees: Bloom and Harvest Charts
- Texas Plant Disease Handbook: Pear
- Washington State University: Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center
National Science Foundation Center for IPM. 1999 (24 pp.)
Bloom and Harvest Charts accessed through homepage link to Fruit & Nut Trees: Varieties. Fowler Nurseries, Newcastle, CA
Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University
Washington State University
Organizations
- California Pear Advisory Board
- Pacific Coast Producers
- Pear Bureau Northwest
Sacramento, CA
Lodi, CA
Milwaukie, OR
Production Economics
- Cost and Return Studies by the Dept. of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Davis
Includes: individual studies for most California fruit & nut crops by region. Studies authored by UCCE Specialists & Farm Advisors.
Production Management
- Biological Control of Codling Moth: Parasitoid Releases in Walnuts, Apples and Pears (pdf)
- Control of Codling Moth in Organic Pear Orchards (pdf)
- Growth Regulators in Orchard Mgt: Technical Reports for Pear: 2003 to 2011
- Physiological Disorder Fact Sheets: Apple, Grape, Olive, Pear, Persimmon, Pomegranate, Stonefruit
- Recommendations for Maintaining Postharvest Quality: Pear 'Anjou' 'Bosc' 'Comice'
- Recommendations for Maintaining Postharvest Quality: Pear 'Bartlett'
- UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines: Pear
Janet Caprile, UCCE Contra Costa Co., Nick Mills, Dept. of Insect Biology, UC Berkeley. 2004 (1 pp.)
R. Elkins, UCCE Lake Co., C. Ingris, UCCE Sacramento Co., R. VanSteenwyck, UCCE Environmental Sciences, UC Berkeley, and L. Varela, UCCE Sonoma Co. a poster. 2004
Kitren Glozer, Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis. Topics include the impact of dormant treatments and specific growth regulators on fruit quality
Carlos Crisosto, (ed.) Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, UC Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center
Elizabeth J. Mitcham, Carlos Crisosto, and Adel A. Kader Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
Elizabeth J. Mitcham, Carlos H. Crisosto and Adel A. Kader Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis
UC IPM Online
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