“…This method has been used on a wide range of fruits and berries, such as apple (Lang, 1990;Lang & Volz, 1998;Morandi et al, 2011), cherry (Athoo et al, 2015;Br€ uggenwirth et al, 2016), citrus (Garcia-Luis et al, 2002), grape (Lang & Thorpe, 1989;Creasy & Lombard, 1993;Greenspan et al, 1994Greenspan et al, , 1996Rogiers et al, 2001), kiwifruit (Clearwater et al, 2009(Clearwater et al, , 2012Morandi et al, 2012;Torres-Ruiz et al, 2016), mango (Nordey et al, 2015), peach (Morandi et al, 2007(Morandi et al, , 2010, pear (Morandi et al, 2014a,b) and tomato (Else et al, 1996;Plaut et al, 2004;Guichard et al, 2005;Jan & Kawabata, 2011;de Freitas et al, 2014;Hanssens et al, 2015). While in woody tissue, girdling can be achieved by mechanical removal of the bark, the same is not always feasible for herbaceous pedicels and peduncles.…”