Marie Abbey, Neil O. Anderson, Chengyan Yue, G. E. Short, Michele Schermann, Nicholas B. D. Phelps, Paul Venturelli, Zata Vickers
{"title":"An Analysis of Strawberry (Fragaria × Ananassa)Productivity in NorthernLatitudinal Aquaponic Growing Conditions","authors":"Marie Abbey, Neil O. Anderson, Chengyan Yue, G. E. Short, Michele Schermann, Nicholas B. D. Phelps, Paul Venturelli, Zata Vickers","doi":"10.71318/apom.2019.73.1.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.2019.73.1.22","url":null,"abstract":"Aquaponics, the combination of hydroponics and aquaculture into one growing system, is a controlled environment production system that potentially has increased environmental and consumer benefits over traditional production methods. Typical horticulture aquaponic production focuses on leafy greens and herbs with no known studies on the production potential of strawberries ( Fragaria× ananassaDuchesne) or any other perennial fruit crop. This study compares day-neutral strawberry yield of ‘Albion’, ‘Evie 2’ and ‘Portola’ in aquaponic productions with different variables of strawberry yield in greenhouse production using soilless medium. There was no addition of supplemental nutrients or pollinators to the systems in order to evaluate the differences between treatments. We found a significant difference among cultivars in number of fruit, fresh fruit weight, and dry fruit weight with ‘Evie 2’ having the highest yield in all. There was no significant difference in the number of fruit produced by strawberries grown in soilless medium and those grown aquaponically. We did, however, find that aquaponic strawberries had a significantly higher fresh fruit weight while strawberries grown in soilless medium had a significantly higher dry fruit weight. This indicates that strawberries grown in soilless medium had a higher mass to water ratio, although aquaponic-grown strawberries sometimes had higher fresh weight yield.","PeriodicalId":50014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Pomological Society","volume":"73 1","pages":"22-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://journal.americanpomological.org/index.php/jofaps/article/download/3017/3021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147894403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Strand Thinning on Yield and Fruit Qualityof Egyptian Dry Date Palm (Phoenix DactyliferaL.) cv. Sultani","authors":"Alaa E. K. Omar, Shamel M. Alam‐Eldein","doi":"10.71318/apom.2014.68.3.135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.2014.68.3.135","url":null,"abstract":"Strand thinning is one of the common cultural practices used by Egyptian date palm farmers to reduce the incidence of alternate bearing, increase flowering, reduce the compactness of bunches, and improve yield and fruit quality. Five treatments of strand thinning were carried out; 15% strand thinning on the day of pollination, 30% strand thinning on the day of pollination, 15% strand thinning 15 days after pollination, 30% strand thinning 15 days after pollination, and the control. Compared to the control, all thinning treatments improved fruit weight, flesh weight, and tannin, vitamin C, and total and reducing sugars concentrations. Thinning 30% of strands 15 days after pollination resulted in the best physical and chemical characteristics compared to other thinning treatments.","PeriodicalId":50014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Pomological Society","volume":"68 3","pages":"135-140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://journal.americanpomological.org/index.php/jofaps/article/download/2856/2860","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147879926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}