Improving Colour and Size of Apricot Fruit by Means of Exogenous Auxin Application

Improving fruit size and quality of low yielding and small fruited pear cultivars with benzyladenine and gibberellin applications

“…Cytokinins, GAs and auxins are applied to many horticultural crops to increase fruit size (Flaishman et al, 2001;Ozga and Reinecke, 2003). A pre-harvest spray of the synthetic auxin 3,5,6-trichloro-2-pyridyloxyacetic acid (3,5,6-TPA) during pit hardening improved color and size (Bregoli et al, 2010) of apricot (Prunus armeniaca). Similarly, a pre-harvest application of 2,4-dichlorophenoxypropionic acid (2,4-DP) increased fruit size and advanced maturation of apricot fruit (Agusti et al, 1994).…”

Comparison of metamitron efficiency for postbloom thinning of young ‘Gala’ and ‘Golden Delicious’ apple trees

“…In favourable growing conditions, these trees can produce high yield in the second leaf, achieving full productivity in the fourth leaf (Radivojevic et al, 2014). High-quality trees of the cultivars 'Gala' and 'Golden Delicious' during the establishing period frequently produce an excessive number of fruitlets but this can be insufficient to guarantee fruit of good marketable size at harvest (Bregoli et al, 2007). Furthermore, an unwanted excessive number of fruit per tree during that period can reduce the growth of a young tree and delay the achievement of maximum tree size.…”