Volume 49 Number 2 Article 21
Year 1995 Month 4
Title: Annual Grafting of Nashi Pear in Low Chill Areas of Taiwan
Authors: D.H. Byrne, S.-K. Ou and J.B. Storey
Abstract:
At present there are no high quality Nashi
pear cultivars adapted to the subtropical (Low
chill) zone of Taiwan.
A method to produce
high chill Nashi pear cultivars in the lowland
subtropical zone of Taiwan has been developed
as a way to harvest Nashi pear 6 to 12 weeks
before the harvest in the high chill regions.
The
procedure involves the annual grafting of al
ready chilled budwood of high chill, high quality
Nashi pears ('Hosui' and 'Kosui') onto the local
low chill poor quality Nashi cultivar, hand pollination, the use of gibberellic acid (GA) to
accelerate ripening, paper bags to protect the
fruit, and the development of renewal wood for
grafting the following year.
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