Partial rootzone drying and deficit irrigation of 'Fuji'apples in a semi-arid climate

BG Leib, HW Caspari, CA Redulla, PK Andrews… - Irrigation science, 2006 - Springer
The effects of deficit irrigation (DI) and partial rootzone drying (PRD) on apple (Malus
domestica Borkh. Cv. ‘Fuji’) yield, fruit size, and quality were evaluated from 2001 to 2003 in the …

Effects of girdling and leaf removal on fruit set and vegetative growth in grape

HW Caspari, A Lang, P Alspach - American Journal of …, 1998 - Am Soc Enol Viticulture
The effect of the carbohydrate supply on fruit set and on the development of the
inflorescence, from flowering to three weeks after flowering, was investigated using field-grown …

Water use, growth, and fruit yield of'Hosui'Asian pears under deficit irrigation

HW Caspari, MH Behboudian… - Journal of the American …, 1994 - journals.ashs.org
… From this and our previous fruit growth data (Caspari et al., 1993a) we conclude that water
should be made readily available when fruit growth rate of ‘Hosui’ Asian pears increases to 2 …

Partial rootzone drying. A new deficit irrigation strategy for apple?

HW Caspari, S Neal, P Alspach - … on Irrigation and Water Relations in …, 2001 - actahort.org
Partial Rootzone Drying (PRD) is a new deficit irrigation strategy that has recently been
developed for grapevines in Australia. We have been evaluating the PRD strategy for apples in …

Optimized differential thermal analysis sheds light on the effect of temperature on peach floral bud cold hardiness and transition from endo-to ecodormancy

DG Sterle, HW Caspari, IS Minas - Plant Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The greatest threat to profitable peach production is cold damage to reproductive tissues. To
better understand and mitigate cold damage in peach accurate and efficient assessment of …

[PDF][PDF] Estimating latent heat flux from a vineyard using scintillometry

…, SR Green, MS Astill, HW Caspari - Terrestrial …, 2000 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
The combination of a near-infrared and a microwave scintillometer were used to estimate
the line-averaged, latent heat flux density (A. Es) from a well-irrigated, vineyard valley during …

Fruit Characteristics ofHosui'Asian Pears after Deficit Irrigation

HW Caspari, MH Behboudian, DJ Chalmers… - …, 1996 - journals.ashs.org
… Except for fruit size (Caspari et al., 1994), there were no significant differences in fruit
quality between irrigation treatments. No disorders were observed in any of the fruit at …

Performance of drainage lysimeters for the evaluation of water use by Asian pears.

…, PK Andrews, KM Harris, EA Cameron, HW Caspari - 1992 - cabidigitallibrary.org
The design of a type of drainage lysimeter, which was tested with trees of Pyrus serotina var.
culta [P. pyrifolia] cv. Hosui grafted on seedling rootstocks, is described. All lysimeter …

Total soil water content accounts for augmented ABA leaf concentration and stomatal regulation of split-rooted apple trees during heterogeneous soil drying

TC Einhorn, HW Caspari, S Green - Journal of Experimental …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
A split-rooted containerized system was developed by approach grafting two, 1-year-old
apple (Malus×domestica Borkh. cv ‘Gala’) trees to investigate the effect of soil moisture …

Pattern of seasonal water use of Asian pears determined by lysimeters and the heat-pulse technique

HW Caspari, MH Behhoudian… - Journal of the …, 1993 - journals.ashs.org
Seasonal water use data are presented for 4-year-old Pyrus serotina Rehder cv. Hosui
growing in drainage lysimeters and trained onto a Tatura trellis. Weekly water use (WU) was …