Deciduous Tree Plantations Group
Contact: Elkena Ben Yashar
Tel: 972-4-6953577, 972-50-365823 Elkanabn@migal.org.il
Agenda
- Increasing yields in apples.
- Upgrading size and quality in apples and pears by reducing sunburn, making changes in harvesting, grading, improving color and harvesting indices and tree modeling;
- Acclimatizing new pear stocks and varieties;
- Acclimatizing new stocks and varieties of stone fruit;
- Raising efficiency of water use;
- Reducing use of pesticides in Deciduous tree plantations;
- Preventing scald in pears.
Ongoing R&D Projects
Apples
- Controlling Alterneria disease in apples.
- Testing new methods for monitoring Apple moth in apples.
- Development of model to forecast effect of climate on completion of hibernation in apple.
- Etiology and control of core rot in Red Delicious apples.
- Examination of biological control as alternative to chemicals against apple aphid.
- Examination of coloured net technique to improve fertility and fruit quality in apple.
- Examination of influences causing differences of efficiency in water use for apple stocks.
- Examination of the influence of temperature and fruit age on sun damage to apples.
- Identification of outstanding pollinator for Starking variety apple.
- Improving colour in red apple varieties.
- Increasing yield of Starking Delicious variety by improving pollination through outstanding pollinators.
- Influence of climate on awakening and strength of blossom in apples.
- Influence of shading by nets on water consumption, fruit quality and microclimate in apples
- Physiological Influence of thinning in apples.
- Mechanizing apple harvesting.
- Model for water planning in apples.
- Prevention of apple abscission.
- Reducing transpiration of apple trees.
- Controlling Roughness in Golden Delicious apple variety.
Pears
- Directing irrigation and fertility in pears.
- Examination of stocks and varieties of pear.
- Improving fruit size in pears.
- Improving water uptake by pear tree.
- Increasing pear yield by raising pollination rate through characterization and genetic matching between different varieties
- Influence of post-harvest irrigation on autumn flowering in pear and behaviour in the following years.
- Production of pears immune to fire blight through genetic manipulation.
- Use of treated sewage water in pear orchards.
- Systemic spread of Erwinia amylovora bacterium causing fire blight in pear trees after infection.
Stone Fruit: Plums, Nectarines, Peaches, Apricots, and Cherries
- Fertility and pollenization in plum.
- Improvement of Japanese plum quality with a view to export after storage.
- Increasing yield of Japanese plum by characterization and genetic matching between pollinator and fruit tree through molecular methods
- Influence of water ration on yield and size of plum.
- Technologies for thinning Japanese plums.
- Improving efficiency of utilization of irrigation water after nectarine harvest.
- Technologies for increasing fruit size of nectarines.
- Post-harvest irrigation of nectarines.
- Chemical technologies for thinning of peaches.
- Technologies for the control of thrips in peaches.
- Technologies for chemical thinning of apricots.
- Modern cultivation and agro techniques of apricot plantation.
- Examination of stocks and varieties of apricot
- Technologies for Control of molds in cherries.
- Technologies for improving fruit size in sweet cherry.
- Irrigation methodology in sweet cherry husbandry.
- Production and marketing of out-of-season dark cherry in highlands.
Miscellaneous: Kiwi, Figs
- Technologies for solving problem of rot in long-term storage of kiwi fruit.
- Technologies for top irrigation in kiwis.
General Projects
- Adaptation of stone fruit varieties in unfavourable and marginal areas.
- Biological and integrated control of Psylla pyri.
- Development of algorithm for on line computer based decision-making system dealing with irrigation control in orchards according to stress indices
- Development of methods for the production of flowering branches of deciduous fruit trees.
- Development of new deciduous crops.
- Development of strategy for control of Psylla pyri on the basis of phenological and behavioural data.
- Estimating response of orchard to irrigation management at various levels of ground moisture.
- Improvement of irrigation direction by suiting water distributor of trees in orchard after computerized mapping by aerial survey
- Improving water uptake of deciduous trees in heavy soil by managing irrigation to improve soil structure.
- Use of ozone to maintain fruit quality after harvest.