Research
Current Research Projects:
- Quantifying intra-tree fruit quality variability relative to 3D canopy architecture
- The Influence of Harvest Time on Sensory Properties and Consumer Acceptance of Sweet Cherries.
- Characterizing and manipulating sweet cherry source-sink relations
- Whole-canopy gas exchange
- High density sweet cherry orchard management
- Mechanical harvest of fresh market quality sweet cherries
- Sweet cherry clonal rootstock evaluations
- Physiological impacts of deficit irrigation in sweet cherry and apple
- Peach rootstock evaluations
- Extenday reflective ground cover
- Modeling sweet cherry carbon balance and water use
Studies
Gibberellic Acid Inhibits Floral Bud Induction and Improves 'Bing' Sweet Cherry Fruit Quality