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Program Objectives

  • Orchard and environmental factors affecting productivity, harvest and postharvest quality of peaches, sweet cherries, and apples

  • Development of novel non-destructive technologies to estimate internal fruit quality

  • Understanding the environmental and biological bases for cold hardiness and damage

  • Evaluation of new cultivars and rootstocks