List price   € 120   Buy this book   This title is available in ActaHort USB-drive or e-Acta format - not available in print Conveners   J. Janick, S. Sansavini  Editor   J. Janick  Publication date   31 August 2003  ISBN   978-90-66051-89-8  ISSN   0567-7572 (print)   2406-6168 (electronic)  Number of articles   66  Volumes   1  Place   Toronto, Canada  Online articles: FOREWORD AND PREFACE ( ISHS Board of Directors, J. Janick) POME FRUIT BREEDING: PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS (S.K. Brown) PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS IN STONE FRUIT BREEDING (F. Dosba) PROGRESS IN BREEDING SUBTROPICAL FRUIT CROPS (L. Ferguson) PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS IN NUT BREEDING (S.A. Mehlenbacher) EVALUATING GENETIC RESOURCES IN MINOR FRUITS (H. Nybom, I. Bartish, L. Garkava-Gustavsson, H. Persson, G. Werlemark, D. Esselink) GENETIC MODIFICATION TO IMPROVE FRUIT QUALITY: BENEFITS FOR THE GROWER, THE CONSUMER AND THE ENVIRONMENT (D. James, A. Passey, S. Baker, F. Wilson, J. Stow, R. Colgan, E. Hiles, A. Massiah, S. Vaughan, D. Blakesley, D. Simpson, D. Sargent, S. Bulley, P. Hedden, A. Phillips, S. Biricolti, M. Mazzara, S. Uratsu, J. Labavitch, A.M. Dandekar) DEVELOPMENT OF FIRE BLIGHT RESISTANT APPLE CULTIVARS BY GENETIC ENGINEERING (H.S. Aldwinckle, E.E. Borejsza-Wysocka, M. Malnoy, S.K. Brown, J.L. Norelli, S.V. Beer, X. Meng, S.Y. He, Q.-L. Jin) 'GALA' APPLE TRANSFORMED FOR SCAB RESISTANCE WITH CLONED VF GENE REGION CONSTRUCT (S. Sansavini, M. Barbieri, E. Belfanti, S. Tartarini, B. Vinatzer, C. Gessler, E. Silfverberg, L. Gianfranceschi, D. Hermann, A. Patocchi) POTENTIAL USE OF TRANSGENIC PLUMS RESISTANT TO PLUM POX VIRUS FIELD INFECTION (R. Scorza, M. Ravelonandro, T. Malinowski, N. Minoiu, M. Cambra) EFFICIENT PLANT REGENERATION CULTURE FROM LEAF EXPLANTS OF IN VITRO-GROWN SWEET CHERRY (T. Takashina, H. Nakano, R. Kato) THE USE OF MOLECULAR MARKERS IN POME FRUIT BREEDING (S. Tartarini, S. Sansavini) CANDIDATE RESISTANCE GENES FROM AN EST DATABASE PROVE A RICH SOURCE OF MARKERS FOR MAJOR GENES CONFERRING RESISTANCE TO IMPORTANT APPLE PESTS AND DISEASES (S. Gardiner, J. Murdoch, S. Meech, R. Rusholme, H. Bassett, M. Cook, V. Bus, E. Rikkerink, A. Gleave, R. Crowhurst, G. Ross, I. Warrington) IDENTIFICATION AND MAPPING OF MARKERS FOR RESISTANCE TO APPLE SCAB FROM 'ANTONOVKA' AND 'HANSEN'S BACCATA #2' (M. Hemmat, S.K. Brown, H.S. Aldwinckle, S.A. Mehlenbacher, N.F. Weeden) MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION IN STONE FRUITS (R. Testolin) SYNTENY WITHIN THE PRUNUS GENOMES DETECTED BY MOLECULAR MARKERS (E. Dirlewanger, P. Cosson, C. Poizat, F. Laigret, M.J. Aranzana, P. Arús, M.T. Dettori, I. Verde, R. Quarta) MOLECULAR MARKER FOR SELECTING POLLINATION-CONSTANT NON-ASTRINGENT (PCNA) TYPE PERSIMMON AT THE JUVENILE STAGE (K. Yonemori, A. Sugiura, A. Sato, M. Yamada, S. Kanzaki) A NEW SELECTION STRATEGY FOR FRUIT CROPS (N.C. Oraguzie) FIRST GENERATION OF RECURRENT SELECTION IN APPLE: ESTIMATION OF GENETIC PARAMETERS (N.C. Oraguzie, C. Whitworth, J. Fraser, P.A. Alspach, C.G.T. Morgan) HERITABILITY ESTIMATES IN KIWIFRUIT (H.D. Marsh, T. Paterson, A.G. Seal, M.A. McNeilage) SELECTION OF IMPROVED OLIVE CULTIVARS (J. Guerin, G. Mekuria, M. Burr, G. Collins, M. Sedgley) ANALYTICAL BREEDING (R. Ortiz) INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATIONS AND SUBSEQUENT GENE INTROGRESSION WITHIN PRUNUS SUBGENUS AMYGDALUS (T.M. Gradziel) LACK OF MALE-STERILITY ALLELISM BETWEEN PEACH AND ALMOND (J.M. Alonso, R. Socias i Company) INHERITANCE OF VENATION PATTERN IN PRUNUS FERGANENSIS x PERSICA HYBRIDS (W.R. Okie, M. Rieger) BREEDING AND CHARACTERISTICS OF SYMMETRIC INTERGENERIC HYBRIDS BETWEEN APPLE AND PEAR (K. Banno, Y. Hirano, H. Ishikawa, M. Kakegawa) FRUIT TREE SIZE AND ARCHITECTURE (C. Fideghelli, A. Sartori, F. Grassi) BREEDING FOR FRUIT QUALITY (A.M. Callahan) RESISTANCE TO BIOTIC STRESS IN FRUIT TREES (Y. Lespinasse, C.E. Durel, D. Esmenjaud, A. Eskes, J.L. Poëssel) INHERITANCE OF APPLE SCAB RESISTANCE FROM POLYGENIC SOURCES BASED ON GREENHOUSE AND FIELD EVALUATION (H.A. Quamme, C.R. Hampson, J.W. Hall, P.L. Sholberg, K.E. Bedford, P. Randall) RESISTANCE TO MILDEW IN APPLE PROGENIES OF THE SCAB-RESISTANT CLONE U 211 AND MILDEW SUSCEPTIBLE CULTIVARS (E. Pitera) THE FUTURE OF DISEASE-RESISTANT APPLES (M. Fischer, M. Geibel, C. Fischer) EFFICIENT MULTI-LOCATION TESTING OF SCAB RESISTANT CULTIVARS FOR ORGANIC APPLE PRODUCTION IN SWITZERLAND (F.P. Weibel, A. Schmid, A. Häseli) RESISTANCE TO PEAR PSYLLA NYMPHAL FEEDING OF GERMPLASM FROM CENTRAL EUROPE (R.L. Bell) RESISTANCE TO BROWN ROT DISEASE IN PEACH IS DETERMINED BY MULTIPLE STRUCTURAL AND BIOCHEMICAL COMPONENTS (T.M. Gradziel, R.M. Bostock, J.E. Adaskaveg) COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THREE DIAGNOSTIC METHODS FOR THE EVALUATION OF PLUM POX VIRUS (PPV) RESISTANCE IN APRICOT BREEDING PROGRAMS (P. Martínez-Gómez, M. Rubio, F. Dicenta, F. Aparicio, V. Pallás) SPREAD OF PLUM POX VIRUS IN NEW PLUM ORCHARDS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND CULTIVAR RESISTANCE (J. Bla¿ek, F. Papr¿tein, R. Kare¿ová) USE OF A DETACHED LEAF BIOASSAY FOR SCREENING SWEET CHERRY CULTIVARS FOR BACTERIAL CANKER RESISTANCE (K.E. Bedford, P.L. Sholberg, F. Kappel) REPRODUCTIVE BARRIERS IN TREE FRUIT CROPS AND NUTS (P.A. Wiersma) APPLE SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY GENOTYPES: AN OVERVIEW (W. Broothaerts, I. Van Nerum) S-ALLELE GENOTYPE OF APPLE CULTIVARS AND SELECTIONS (S. Matsumoto, K. Kitahara, Y. Furusawa, J. Soejima, H. Fukui, H. Komatsu) IDENTIFICATION OF SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY ALLELES IN ALMOND AND RELATED PRUNUS SPECIES USING PCR (P. Martínez-Gómez, A.M. Dandekar, T.M. Gradziel, M. López, I. Batlle, J.M. Alonso, E. Ortega, R. Sánchez-Pérez, F. Dicenta, R. Socías i Company) SF-RNASE AND ITS RELATION TO SELF-COMPATIBILITY IN JAPANESE APRICOT (R. Tao, A. Namba, T. Habu, H. Yamane, A. Sugiura) CLIMATIC ADAPTATION IN FRUIT CROPS (W.B. Sherman, T.G. Beckman) INHERITANCE OF CHILLING REQUIREMENT FOR DORMANCY COMPLETION IN APRICOT VEGETATIVE BUDS (R. Tzonev, A. Erez) DEVELOPING LOW CHILL, HIGH QUALITY JAPANESE PLUMS IN SUBTROPICAL TAIWAN (I.-C. Wen, W.B. Sherman) INFLUENCE OF CLIMATIC CONDITIONS ON YIELDS AND FRUIT PERFORMANCE OF NEW APPLE CULTIVARS FROM THE CZECH REPUBLIC (J. Blažek, I. Hlušičková) ISOZYME DIVERSITY IN IRANIAN ALMOND (A. Vezvaei) KARYOTYPE ANALYSIS IN ALMOND (P. Martínez-Gómez, Y. Vaknin, T.M. Gradziel, F. Dicenta) CLINGSTONE PEACH TRIALS IN ROMANIA (L.M. Dumitru, C. Gavăt, F. Stănică, N. Cepoiu) NEW APRICOT GERMPLASM SELECTED BY TEN CHARACTERISTICS (E. Coneva) SPECIES COMPOSITION OF JAPANESE PLUM FOUNDING CLONES AS REVEALED BY RAPD MARKERS (U. Boonprakob, D.H. Byrne) RAPD ANALYSIS ON THE CULTIVARS, STRAINS AND RELATED SPECIES OF CHINESE JUJUBE (L. Mengjun, Z. Jin) NATIVE APPLE GERMPLASM IN ROMANIA (G. Gradinariu, M. Istrate, M. Dascalu, F. Gradinariu) NEW CITRUS ROOTSTOCKS VIA PROTOPLAST FUSION (J.W. Grosser, J.L. Chandler) BREEDING AND SELECTION OF APPLE AND PEAR ROOTSTOCKS (A.D. Webster) THE GENEVA SERIES OF APPLE ROOTSTOCKS FROM CORNELL: PERFORMANCE, DISEASE RESISTANCE, AND COMMERCIALIZATION (T. Robinson, H. Aldwinckle, G. Fazio, T. Holleran) PERFORMANCE OF CORNELL-GENEVA APPLE ROOTSTOCKS WITH 'LIBERTY' AS THE SCION IN NC-140 TRIALS ACROSS NORTH AMERICA (T. Robinson, L. Anderson, A. Azarenko, B. Barritt, T. Baugher, G. Brown, G. Couvillon, W. Cowgill, R. Crassweller, P. Domoto, C. Embree, A. Fennell, E. Garcia, A. Gaus, R. Granger, G. Greene, P. Hirst, E. Hoover, S. Johnson, M. Kushad) ROOTSTOCK BREEDING FOR STONE FRUITS (T.G. Beckman, G.A. Lang) ROOTSTOCK DEVELOPMENT IN TEMPERATE NUT CROPS (L.J. Grauke, T.E. Thompson) CULTIVAR-ROOTSTOCK COMBINATIONS FOR UNIRRIGATED PISTACHIO IN TURKEY (H.S. Atli, S. Arpaci, A. Akgun, I. Acar) FRENCH APPLE BREEDING PROGRAM: A NEW PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN INRA AND THE NURSERYMEN OF NOVADI (F. Laurens, C. Pitiot) APPLE BREEDING PROGRESS IN JAPAN (N.C. Oraguzie, J. Soejima, T. Fukusawa-Akada, K. Kudo, H. Komatsu, N. Kotoda) ANCESTRY OF APPLE SELECTIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN (B. Bors) GERMINATION OF APPLE SEED FROM FRUIT REMOVED FROM COLD STORAGE (E. Pitera, S. Odziemkowski) LOW CHILL BREEDING OF DECIDUOUS FRUITS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA (W.B. Sherman, P.M. Lyrene) SWEET CHERRY IMPROVEMENT AT SUMMERLAND, CANADA (F. Kappel, R. MacDonald, D.-L. McKenzie, C. Hampson)