Challenges and opportunities in pear breeding

Challenges and opportunities in pear breedingAlthough pear (Pyrus spp.) is an economically important fruit worldwide, pear cultivars and production practices have been among the slowest of the temperate fruits to change to meet modern consumer demands and labor efficient orchard realities. In the United States, the majority of the pear orchards are low density plantings with large trees of long standing cultivars that can reach up to 15 feet in height. Large vigorous trees require difficult and

from its colonial foundation and through its rapid expansion under the Battiad monarchs

Mistress of everything examines how indigenous people across Britain's settler colonies engaged with Queen Victoria in their lives and predicaments

one of the most individualistic and evocative poets of antiquity

The use of BMPs involves a continuous cycle of design

and the exercise of colonial power

This study demonstrates how governmentality can be used to understand some of Ireland’s contemporary health issues and dilemmas

moral rigidity

Will appeal to the general reader with an interest in Venice’s empire as well as to the academic historian

The process brings out aspects of Jung’s work on sexuality and the body that often get overlooked in academic circles

mobility and the protection of displaced persons

Through a detailed examination of the party’s post-war development

This book examines same-sex unions policy (SSU) developments in eighteen western democracies and seeks to explain why the overwhelming majority of these countries has implemented a national law to recognise gay and lesbian couples since 1989