IX International Pear Symposium

A MORE HOLISTIC VIEW ON THE HORMONAL INTERACTIONS AMONG DIFFERENT ORGANS IN A FRUIT TREE

EVOLUTION OF THE PEAR TRAINING MODEL IN SOUTH AFRICA

STATUS OF THE PEAR INDUSTRY IN SOUTH AMERICA

PEAR PRODUCTION IN THE NORTH AMERICA

STATUS OF THE PEAR PRODUCTION IN EUROPE

STATUS OF THE PEAR INDUSTRY IN ASIA

THE STATUS OF THE PEAR INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALASIA

STATUS OF THE PEAR INDUSTRY IN AFRICA, WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO SOUTH AFRICA

RED COLOUR DEVELOPMENT AND LOSS IN PEARS

REFLECTIVE MULCH IMPROVES FRUIT SIZE AND FLOWER BUD FORMATION OF PEAR CV CLARA FRIJS

EARLY PREDICTION OF RIPENING AND STORAGE QUALITY OF PEAR FRUIT IN SOUTH AFRICA

USE OF EVAPORATIVE COOLING TO IMPROVE ‘ROSEMARIE’ AND ‘FORELLE’ PEAR FRUIT BLUSH COLOUR AND QUALITY

FLUORESCENCE IMAGING TO STUDY PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES IN ‘CONFERENCE’ PEARS DURING A SHELF-LIFE EXPERIMENT

EFFECT OF 6-BA AND NAA AS THINNING AGENTS OF ‘CONFERENCE’ PEAR

MORPHOLOGY AND HISTOLOGY OF THE NECTARY IN HUNGARIAN LOCAL PEAR CULTIVARS

APPLICATION OF S-RNASE ALLELE MOLECULAR ANALYSIS AS A MEANS FOR ELUCIDATING LOW YIELDS IN THE PEAR ORCHARD

INCREASING THE YIELD OF ‘SPADONA’ PEAR (PYRUS COMMUNIS L.) BY APPROPRIATE UTILIZATION OF BEEHIVES

THE SYNTHETIC CYTOKININS CPPU AND TDZ PROLONG THE PHASE OF CELL DIVISION IN DEVELOPING PEAR (PYRUS COMMUNIS L.) FRUIT

STUDY ON COMPATIBILITY AND POLLEN TUBE GROWTH OF SOME ASIAN PEAR (PYRUS SEROTINA REHD.) CULTIVARS

REPRODUCTIVE BUD DEVELOPMENT OF PEARS (PYRUS COMMUNIS L.) WITH EMPHASIS ON THE BOURSE SHOOT

THE EFFECT OF SCORING DURING FLOWER INDUCTION OR THE INITIATION PHASE ON RETURN BLOOM IN PYRUS COMMUNIS L.

FLOWERING DATE PREDICTION IN ‘ROCHA’ PEAR UNDER MILD WINTER CONDITIONS

PROGRESS AND CHALLENGES OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN PEAR BREEDING PROGRAM

PROGRESS IN PEAR BREEDING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA

CHARACTERISTICS OF AN F1 GENERATION ARISING FROM BUTIRRA PRECOCE MORETTINI x BELLA DI GIUGNO

ORCHARD COMPARISONS OF NEW QUINCE AND PYRUS ROOTSTOCK CLONES

PROGRESS IN THE NATIONAL ASIAN PEAR PROJECT: A STUDY ON THE ADAPTATION OF SOME ASIAN PEAR (PYRUS SEROTINA REHD) CULTIVARS TO IRANIAN ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

FIELD PERFORMANCE OF FIRE BLIGHT TOLERANT, PYRUS COMMUNIS SELECTIONS IN SOUTH CAROLINA

‘ROCHA’, THE PEAR FROM PORTUGAL

HERITABILITY OF MORPHOLOGICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTERS IN THREE PEAR PROGENIES

BREEDING PEARS FOR WARM CLIMATES IN MEXICO

BREEDING OF HOMOZYGOTES OF SELF-INCOMPATIBLE HAPLOTYPE IN JAPANESE PEAR (PYRUS PYRIFOLIA NAKAI)

BREEDING OF PEAR ROOTSTOCKS. FIRST EVALUATION OF NEW INTERESPECIFIC ROOTSTOCKS FOR TOLERANCE TO LIME-INDUCED CHLOROSIS AND INDUCED VIGOUR UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS

OLD PEAR VARIETIES IN NORTHERN ITALY

VARIABILITY IN THE WILD PEAR POPULATION IN WEST SERBIA

A SELECTION FROM PYRUS BETULAEFOLIA AS A NEW POLLINATOR FOR THE MAIN PYRUS COMMUNIS CULTIVARS

MOLECULAR GENETIC STUDIES ON PEARS (PYRUS SPP.) IN THE WESTERN CAPE

PLOIDY LEVEL EVALUATION OF ROOTSTOCK SELECTIONS AND PYRUS GENUS ACCESSIONS

RESUMPTION OF CYCLIN B AND HISTONE H1 KINASE ACTIVITY MARKS REPRODUCTIVE BUD BREAK IN PEAR GROWN IN THE HOT CLIMATE OF ISRAEL

EXPRESSION OF THE HEALTH-BENEFICIAL STILBENES IN TRANSGENIC ‘SPADONA’ PEAR (PYRUS COMMUNIS)

PYRUS MICROSATELLITE MARKERS FROM GENBANK SEQUENCES

MOLECULAR TYPING OF RED AND GREEN PHENOTYPES OF ‘BON ROUGE’ PEAR TREES, WITH THE USE OF MICROSATELLITES

STRESS INDUCED DIFFERENTIAL GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS FOR RED AND GREEN PHENOTYPES OF ‘BON ROUGE’ PEAR TREES (PYRUS COMMUNIS)

DEVELOPMENT OF MICROSATELLITE MARKERS FOR MARKER-ASSISTED BREEDING IN PEARS (PYRUS SPP.)

DEVELOPMENT OF MOLECULAR MARKERS LINKED TO SEVERAL FRUIT TRAITS IN ORIENTAL PEAR

EXTENDING SHELF-LIFE OF PARTIALLY RIPENED D'ANJOU PEARS BY 1-METHYLCYCLOPROPENE TREATMENT

THE EFFECT OF SMARTFRESH™ (1-METHYLCYCLOPROPENE) ON POST HARVEST STORAGE QUALITY OF ‘BON CHRETIEN’ PEARS

SENSORY EVALUATION OF NEW PEAR CULTIVARS

SENSORY EVALUATION FROM A CONSUMER PERSPECTIVE AND ITS APPLICATION TO ‘ABATE FETEL’ PEAR FRUIT QUALITY

CONSUMER SENSORY EVALUATION OF PEAR CULTIVARS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, USA

‘CONCORDE’ PEAR FLAVOR, TEXTURE, AND STORAGE QUALITY IMPROVED BY MANIPULATING HARVEST MATURITY

MEALINESS OF ‘FORELLE’ PEARS - QUO VADIS?

THE EFFECT OF FRUIT MATURITY AND STORAGE DURATION ON FRICTION DISCOLOURATION OF ‘PACKHAM’S TRIUMPH’ AND ‘DOYENNE DU COMICE’ PEARS

COMBINING ABILITY OF FRUIT APPEARANCE AND EATING QUALITY IN PEARS

VOLATILE CONSTITUENTS AND PEAR AROMA STUDIED BY DYNAMIC HEADSPACE TECHNIQUE

THE EFFECT OF 1-MCP ON THE QUALITY OF ‘CONFERENCE’ AND ‘ABBÉ FÉTEL’ PEARS

REMAINING GLOBALLY COMPETITIVE IN THE U.S. TREE FRUIT INDUSTRY WITH THE NATIONAL TREE FRUIT TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP

THE ECONOMIC COSTS AND RETURNS OF ESTABLISHING AND PRODUCING HIGH-DENSITY PEARS IN HOOD RIVER, OREGON, USA

THE ECONOMIC COSTS AND RETURNS OF PRODUCING PEARS IN HOOD RIVER, OREGON, USA

AN EVALUATION OF SITE-SPECIFIC MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN THE U.S. PEAR INDUSTRY

PEAR PRODUCTION IN CHILE: SITUATION AND TRENDS

AN ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS OF PEAR CULTIVARS GROWN UNDER SOUTH AFRICAN CONDITIONS AND THE RELEVANCE TO LOCAL MAINTENANCE PRUNING STRATEGIES

EFFECT OF PRUNING SEVERITY AND BRANCH QUALITY ON FRUIT SET AND FRUIT DRY WEIGHT OF ‘PACKHAM’S TRIUMPH’ PEARS (PYRUS COMMUNIS L.)

COMPARISON OF THE YIELD, LABOUR REQUIREMENT AND FRUIT QUALITY OF ‘CONFERENCE’ PEARS UNDER FIVE INTENSIVE TRAINING SYSTEMS IN SPAIN

RESPONSE OF TRAINING SYSTEM PLANTING DENSITY AND CULTIVAR IN PEAR

FINANCIAL RESULT OF DIFFERENT PLANTING SYSTEMS FOR ‘CONFERENCE’ PEARS

SCION/ROOTSTOCK INFLUENCE ON GRAFTING SUCCESS, EARLY PERFORMANCE, TREE SURVIVAL AND EFFICIENCY OF NUTRIENT UPTAKE OF SOME ASIAN PEAR (PYRUS SEROTINA REHD.) CULTIVARS

PEAR ROOTSTOCK TRIAL: BEHAVIOR OF ‘CONFERENCE’ AND ‘DOYENNÉ DU COMICE’ ON TWO QUINCE AND FIVE OHXF SELECTIONS

PERFORMANCE OF ‘CONFERENCE’ PEAR ON SELF-ROOTED TREES AND SEVERAL OLD HOME × FARMINGDALE, SEEDLING AND QUINCE ROOTSTOCKS IN SPAIN

NUTRIENT DISTRIBUTION AND REQUIREMENT OF ‘FORELLE’ PEAR TREES ON TWO ROOTSTOCKS

NATURAL OR CHEMICAL GROWTH REGULATION IN PEAR

SHOOT GROWTH, FRUIT PRODUCTION AND RETURN BLOOM IN ‘CONFERENCE’ AND ‘DOYENNÉ DU COMICE’ TREATED WITH REGALIS (PROHEXADIONE-CALCIUM)

EFFECT OF PROHEXADIONE-CA ON GROWTH REGULATION, YIELD, FRUIT SET AND RETURN BLOOM, IN ‘BLANQUILLA’ AND ‘CONFERENCE’, THE TWO MAIN PEAR CULTIVARS GROWN IN SPAIN

ROOT PRUNING: A VALUABLE ALTERNATIVE TO REDUCE THE GROWTH OF ‘CONFERENC’

THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT RATES OF PROHEXADIONECALCIUM AND GIRDLING ON SHOOT GROWTH AND FRUIT QUALITY WHEN APPLIED TO DIFFERENT PEAR CULTIVARS

POST-HARVEST CONTROL OF THE GRAIN CHINCH BUG MACCHIADEMUS DIPLOPTERUS (HETEROPTERA: LYGAEIDAE) ON PEARS IN THE WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA

SUPPRESSION OF CODLING MOTH CYDIA POMONELLA L. (LEPIDOPTERA: TORTRICIDEA) POPULATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICAN APPLE AND PEAR ORCHARDS USING STERILE INSECT RELEASE

COST OF PRODUCTION FOR TRANSITIONING FROM CONVENTIONAL CODLING MOTH CONTROL TO AEROSOL-RELEASED MATING DISRUPTION ("PUFFERS") IN PEARS

MONITORING CODLING MOTH IN FOUR PEAR CULTIVARS WITH THE PEAR ESTER

RESISTANCE OF SOME PYRUS COMMUNIS CULTIVARS AND PYRUS HYBRIDS TO THE PEAR PSYLLA CACOPSYLLA PYRI (HOMOPTERA, PSYLLIDAE)

THE CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTING A SUCCESSFUL IPM PROGRAM IN PEAR

CONTROL OF FIRE BLIGHT BY PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS A506 INTRODUCED INTO UNOPENED PEAR FLOWERS

FRUIT AND LEAF INCIDENCE OF PEAR SCAB (VENTURIA PIRINA ADERH.) IN MIXED EUROPEAN AND ASIAN PEAR PROGENIES

SCAB RESISTANCE IN PYRUS GERMPLASM

POWDERY MILDEW RESISTANCE IN PYRUS GERMPLASM

TEST OF FUNGICIDES AGAINST STEMPHYLIUM VESICARIUM ON PEAR WITH OR WITHOUT A WARNING SYSTEM

AGE DETERMINATION AND TREE-RING GROWTH DYNAMICS IN OLD TREES OF PYRUS COMMUNIS ‘ANGELICA’

IN VITRO ROOTING OF PORTUGUESE PEAR CULTIVARS (PYRUS COMMUNIS) IN RESPONSE TO CHANGES IN AUXIN INDUCTION AND DARK PERIOD TREATMENTS