Natal Fruit Fly, Natal Fly, Ceratitis rosa Karsch (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, Thomas R. Fasulo

“…The Natal fruit fly is a pest of orchard fruits throughout much of KwaZulu Natal Province, Republic of South Africa, and is considered to be the most common fruit fly of economic importance in Zimbabwe. 50 to 100 percent of plums were reportedly infested in a South African locality one year despite the application of control measures. …”
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Dehydrated and Freeze-dried Peach Fruit: A Prolonged Shelf-life Product through Modern Drying Techniques by Fariborz Habibi, Ali Sarkhosh, Steven A. Sargent, Jeffrey K. Brecht

“…Batsch) is a valuable temperate fruit from the Rosaceae family, which also includes many other commercially important fruits such as apples and pears, apricots, cherries and plums, and blackberries, raspberries and strawberries. …”
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Peach Scab by Daniel Mancero-Castillo, Ali Sarkhosh, Mercy Olmstead, Philip Harmon

“…This pathogen can infect other fruits and nuts within the Prunus species, like almonds, apricots, nectarines, and plums. This 6-page fact sheet is a minor revision written by Daniel Mancero-Castillo, Ali Sarkhosh, Mercy Olmstead, and Phillip Harmon, and published by the Horticultural Sciences Department, August 2018. …”
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Peach Scab by Daniel Mancero-Castillo, Ali Sarkhosh, Mercy Olmstead, Philip Harmon

“…This pathogen can infect other fruits and nuts within the Prunus species, like almonds, apricots, nectarines, and plums. This 6-page fact sheet is a minor revision written by Daniel Mancero-Castillo, Ali Sarkhosh, Mercy Olmstead, and Phillip Harmon, and published by the Horticultural Sciences Department, August 2018. …”
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For California perennial crops facing climate change, water use stays stable while planting density increases by Molly Sears, Karen M. Jetter, Etaferahu Takele

“…After controlling for regional variation in water applied due to agroclimatic factors, irrigation water use per acre has remained largely stable for most crops, while planting densities have increased for many crops, including olives, grapes, avocados, plums, and almonds. A notable exception is pistachios in the South San Joaquin Valley, which experienced an increase in water applied, with stable yields and planting densities. …”
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The Philosopher’s Poet: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on Wallace Stevens by Bart Eeckhout

“…The five selected poets (David Baker, Linda Gregerson, Carl Phillips, Stanley Plumly, and Carol Frost) collectively pondered Stevens’s philosophical qualities in a recent issue of the New England Review, while the responses by philosophers Alain Badiou and Peter Hare were published in collections of their essays. …”
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Switchable Adhesion of Hydrogels to Plant and Animal Tissues by Leah K. Borden, Morine G. Nader, Faraz A. Burni, Samantha M. Grasso, Irene Orueta‐Ortega, Mahima Srivastava, Paula Montero‐Atienza, Metecan Erdi, Sarah L. Wright, Rajabrata Sarkar, Anthony D. Sandler, Srinivasa R. Raghavan

“…Gels can also be adhered to soft tissues from plants, including fruit (e.g., plums) and vegetables (e.g; carrot). In all cases, EA is induced by a low electric field (DC, 10 V) applied for a short time (20 s). …”
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Micro-classification of orchards and agricultural croplands by applying object based image analysis and fuzzy algorithms for estimating the area under cultivation by Bakhtiar Feizizadeh, Ali KHedmat Zadeh, Mohammad Reza Nikjoo

“…The area under cultivation included respectively for lands of wheat and barley, prunes and plums, apples, vineyards and alfalfa hay2622.42, 4505, 4354.55, 4457.85, 14110.58 hectares.…”
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Cultivo de ciruelas en Florida by A. Sarkhosh, M. Olmstead, E. P. Miller, P. C. Andersen, J. G. Williamson, Tatiana Sanchez

“…This new 14-page fact sheet is the Spanish translation of HS895/HS250, Growing Plums in Florida, written by A. Sarkhosh, M. Olmstead, E. …”
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Cultivo de ciruelas en Florida by A. Sarkhosh, M. Olmstead, E. P. Miller, P. C. Andersen, J. G. Williamson, Tatiana Sanchez

“…This new 14-page fact sheet is the Spanish translation of HS895/HS250, Growing Plums in Florida, written by A. Sarkhosh, M. Olmstead, E. …”
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Phylogeography and population structure of the global, wide host-range hybrid pathogen Phytophthora × cambivora by Martin S. Mullett, Kris Van Poucke, Annelies Haegeman, Fran Focquet, Nicholas C. Cauldron, Brian J. Knaus, Marilia Horta Jung, Koji Kageyama, Ayaka Hieno, Hayato Masuja, Seiji Uematsu, Joan F. Webber, Clive M. Brasier, József Bakonyi, Kurt Heungens, Niklaus J. Grünwald, Thomas Jung

“…Phytophthora × cambivora is an invasive, destructive pathogen of forest and fruit trees causing severe damage worldwide to chestnuts (Castanea), apricots, peaches, plums, almonds and cherries (Prunus), apples (Malus), oaks (Quercus), and beech (Fagus). …”
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The Potential Proallergenic Activity of Tranzschelia pruni-spinosae and Phragmidium rubi-idaei in vitro Studies by Sztandera-Tymoczek M, Wdowiak-Wróbel S, Świderska U, Palusińska-Szysz M, Szuster-Ciesielska A

“…However, even widely distributed fungi like T. pruni-spinosae and P. rubi-idaei, which infect plums and raspberries, can trigger allergic reactions. …”
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