PAPERS AND ABSTRACTS FROM ISRAEL

Pollination and fruit set

Argaman - Effect of temperature and pollen source on fertilization, fruit-set and abscission in avocado (Persea americana Mill.) 

Bar-On, Johai - A Study of Factors and Processes that May be Responsible for the Difference in Productivity of 'Fuerte' Avocado Trees.  1986.

Biran - Fruitlet abscission and spring growth retardation - their influence on avocado productivity

Gafni - Effect of extreme temperature regimes and different pollinizers on the fertilization and fruit set processes in avocado

Gur - Identification of the pollen donor in avocado, at the pollination and harvest stages

Goldring - Isoenzymes as genetic markers for identification of avocado cultivars, and the male parent of fruitlets in the orchard

Ish Am - Interrelationship between avocado flowering and honeybees and its implication on the avocado fruitfulness in Israel

Katz, Ehud - Avocado Productivity: Pollination, Pollenizers, Fruit Set and Abscission.  1995.

Shoval - Pollination rate and pollen tube growth of avocado, in relation to yield

Taib - Anatomical aspects of avocado fruit abscission

Tomer - The effect of girdling on flowering, fruit setting and abscission in avocado trees

General

Adar - The Annual Production and Utilization of Dry Matter of an Avocado Tree. 1998.

Adato - The role of ethylene in development maturation and ripening of avocado fruits 

Blumenfeld - Hormonal systems in avocado fruits

Buchholtz - Carbohydrate partitioning between fruitlets and young vegetative growth as a possible factor involved with fruitlet abscission in avocado

Cantuarias, Tatiana - Transpiration rate and water status of a mature avocado orchard as related to wetted soil volume 1995 (Abstract, Full Text in PDF)

Goren - Approaches to the production of avocado cuttings with etiolated bases, and the endogenous changes involve in the rooting process

Hadari, Matan - A Three-Dimensional Model of the Light Regime in an Avocado Orchard.  2004.

Kadman - Selection of avocado rootstocks, tolerant to saline irrigation water, and their vegetative propagation

Kaplan, Zohar - Avocado seeds germination: changes which occur in seed composition during the germination process and the effect of plant growth regulators on germination.  1971.

Kimelmann - ABSTRACT: The Influence of Different Temperatures and Light Intersites on Gas Exange of Avocado Leaves (Persea americana Mill.). 1979.

Levin - Factors affecting inflorescence and vegetative development regulation in avocado (Persea americana Mill)

Mendel, Zvi - תסמיני הנזק הנגרמים לעצי נוי ולעצי יער ע"י פגע האמברוזיה.  (In Hebrew). 2014.

Mossak, Isaias - Effects of different irrigation regimes in late summer on avocado fruit development and ripening.  1977.

Naiman, Dario - Developing methods for prolonged storage of avocado fruits by using modified atmosphere.  1996.

Offer, Rami A. - Maturation and ripening of avocado Fruit.  1986.

Raviv, Michael - Factors involved in rooting of avocado cuttings.  1975.

Snir, Elnatan - Flowering, Pollination and Fruit set in Avocado.  1971.

Urieli, Eitan - Investigation of the physiological processes in the avocado tree and fruit and their adequacy as a measurement for irrigation control.  1965.

Volcani - Bacterial Soft Rot of Avocado Fruit - II

Winer - Comparison of Optimal and Deficient Irrigation of Avocado by Phytomonitoring

Winer - Performance of a tetraploid avocado rootstock 'Canacado VC-320'

Winer - The effects of nitrification inhibition and phosphonate on 'Hass' avocado yield and Botryosphaeria susceptibility

Wysoki - Avocado History and Uses in Israel

Zalk, Zeev - The role of ethylene in the phenomenon of uneven ripening and fruit drop in avocado.  1976.

Zilbersteine - The host pathogen relationship between Phytophthora cinnamomi, the causal organism of root rot, and avocado (Persea americana Mill.), characterization of resistance components