California Avocado Society
1988 Yearbook
Volume 72

Table of Contents

Section I — The California Avocado Society
  1. Arthur William Christie

  2. Past Presidents

  3. 1988 California Avocado Society Officers

  4. 1988 Committees of the California Avocado Society

  5. 1988 California Avocado Society Officers

  6. 1989 Committees of the California Avocado Society

  7. Awards of Honor

  8. 1988 Awards of Honor

  9. Financial Statements

  10. Report of the Variety Committee

  11. Planning Committee Report

  12. Report of the Nurserymen's Section

  13. Minutes of the Annual Meeting

  14. Proceeding of the 1988 Annual Meeting—Day One

  15. URC and Its Reorganization
    Nick C. Toscano

  16. Generation and Selection of Phytophthora cinnamomi Resistant Avocado Rootstocks Through Somaclonal Variation
    S. L. Kurtz

  17. Proceedings of the 1988 Annual Meeting—Day Two

  18. Proposition 65: Tag, You're It!
    Jack Shepherd

  19. Promotions and Supply Management
    Ralph W. Peterson

  20. Managing Surpluses By Subsidized Diversion
    Allen T. Barnum

  21. Growers: An Endangered Species
    Richard E. Mallory

  22. The Importance of the California Avocado Society — An Appraisal From Mexico
    Salvador Sanchez Colin

  23. A New Produce World
    Mark Affleck
Section II — General
  1. Persea schiedeana and Martin Grande — The Period From 1920 to 1975
    Mike Coffey and Fred Guillemet

  2. History of the Martin Grande Rootstock
    George A. Zentmyer, Eugenio Schieber, and Fred B. Guillemet

  3. Phytophthora citricola: Another Cause of Avocado Decline
    Mike Coffey, Peter Oudemans, and Dave Ouimette

  4. Field Evaluations of Some New Avocado Rootstocks
    Fred Guillemet, Brad Gabor, and Mike Coffey

  5. 200 Varieties. . .and Counting
    Larry Rose

  6. Australia
    Don Lavers

  7. Avocados in Australia
    C. A. Schroeder

  8. California Avocado Industry Looks to European Market in Wake of 1988 Israeli Crop Disaster
    Avi Crane

  9. Excellence: The Road to Profitability
    Warren Currier

  10. The Ever-Whirling Wheel of Change. . .or Time Turned Topsy-Turvy
    Jack Shepherd

  11. Second Progress Report For a Monitoring Early Warning Project for Amorbia and the Omnivorous Looper, Insect Pests of California Avocados and Citrus
    J. B. Bailey, K. N. Olsen, N. V. O'Connell, P. A. Phillips, and L. M. McDonough

  12. Water Supplies For San Diego's Avocados - Some Thoughts About the Future
    Gary S. Bender

  13. Avocado Irrigation—How to Deal With High Water Costs
    Gary S. Bender and Margarita M. Engle
Section III — Technical
  1. The Gwen Avocado
    Bob Bergh and Gray Martin

  2. Determining the Optimum Time to Pick Gwen
    Gray Martin and Bob Bergh

  3. The Effect of Pretreatments on Avocado Seed Germination
    Bob Bergh

  4. A Comparison of Hass Selections on Four Rootstocks
    Bob Bergh, Gray Martin, and Bob Whitsell

  5. Leaf Scorch and Mineral Nutrition of Avocado Trees Irrigated With Saline Water
    Samuel Salazar-Garcia and Jose I. Cortes-Flores

  6. Laterals Distribution on the Principal Root in Avocado Seedlings (Persea americana Mill.)
    D. Flores-Meza, L. Vite-Cisneros, and M. W. Borys

  7. The Origin of the G6 Rootstock
    George A. Zentmyer, Eugenio Schieber, Fred Guillemet, and Ed Johnson

  8. Pathogenicity of Isolates of Phytophthora citricola From Different Hosts on Unripe Fruit of Avocado
    David Ouimette, Steve Koike, and Mike Coffey

  9. Fungicide Levels in Avocado Roots and Soil Following Treatment with Phosphonate Fungicides
    David Ouimette and Mike Coffey
Section IV — Membership Lists
  1. California Avocado Society Membership — 1988