5 TheUseofPlantGrowthRegulatorsforBranchingofNurseryTreesinNYState

MarioMirandaSazoandTerenceL.Robinson

10 Geneva®RootstocksforWeakGrowingScion CultivarsLike‘Honeycrisp’ TerenceRobinson,GennaroFazio,SteveHoying,Mario

MirandaandKevinIungerman

17 ANewPheromoneforPrionusRoot-BoringBeetles ArthurM.Agnello,LeaLoizosandDanGilrein

21 ControllingPostharvestDiseasesandDisorders ofAppleswithNon-RecyclingDrenches DavidA.Rosenberger

25 TowardsUnderstandingtheGeneticBasis ofAppleAcidity KenongXu

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Contents

NEW YORK Fruit Quarterly SUMMER 2011Editorial

Leadership and Accountability

There are those who spend their hours discussing how difficult and unfair the current times are. There are those who reflect longingly about how wonderful and simple life used to be.

There are also those who simply fail to see anything positive until it is taken away from them. Then there are those that we call “leaders” who are too busy looking forward to be dragged down by all of this meaningless discussion.

As I travel from west to east across New York, I am humbled by what I recall and what I currently see. The fruit industry has made enormous up- grades to its commercial farming practices in a very short period of time. Orchard acreage in New York State is down but our productivity and quality have never been as high. You need to pause and ask the basic question as to how did this happen? Was this a classic “chicken and egg” scenario? Did we arrive at these cultural practices and varieties by accident? What motivated these changes? Who inspired the invisible hours of research behind the scenes that has yielded today’s modern orchard? I think when you ask these questions you need to be grateful for previous unselfish generations of “leaders” who were willing to invest in the future which is in our case today.

Today like yesterday we are faced with difficult choices as to where and what to do with all too few discretionary dollars. Life one, two, three and four decades ago was not all profits and success stories. Those growers decided that what they knew today was simply never going to be enough. They did not know where they were go-ing but they had the leadership skills to formulate the ARDP so we could fund research within our industry. The brilliant thing about their plan was that individually they saw that the few investment dollars that each fruit farm would investing would not really harm their current operations but would insure successful future ones.

Today is always here and the future is always slightly out of your reach. The true mark of a leader is that they can function within both. Like in years prior we will and forever need to be investing in innovative research programs to improve our industry. There are those who may wish to have this accomplished entirely by public funding. When you leave your future entirely to the fickle whims of the political world you are not being “accountable” for the research programs you desperately require for success in the years ahead. A shared financial cash flow would be ideal.

Today our fruit farms are an inspiration to everyone. While it is exciting to enjoy these new tools we need to make certain we support those same principles of our earlier generations. We need to show by our actions that we have those same qualities of “leadership and accountability”. We are fortunate that we have an excellent scientific research base here in New York State and in the USDA Fruit Research Station in West Virginia. These facilities are only as good as the ef-fort we place in funding and confiding in them as to what we see as our future needs are. It is good to enjoy the exciting new orchards and storage/packing facilities but we need to continue to support the silent, behing-the-scenes work of our researchers. Hopefully several decades from now some other generations will be grateful for the sacrifices this generation made in the unselfish investment in research so often not for themselves but the future.

Paul Baker, Executive DirectorNew York State Horticultural Society3568 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn, New York 14132716-807-6827 (cell)pbaker.hort@roadrunner.com

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President TomDeMarree,DeMarreeFruitFarm 7654TownlineRd. Williamson,NY14589 PH:315-589-9698;CELL:315-576-1244 demarreeff@aol.com

VicePresident WilliamR.Gunnison GunnisonLakeshoreOrchards 3196NYSRt.9W&22,CrownPoint,NY12928 PH:518-597-3363(W);518-597-3817(H) CELL:518-572-4642 gunnisonorchards@yahoo.com

Treasurer/Secretary BruceKirby,LittleLakeFarm 3120DensmoreRoadAlbion,NY14411 PH:585-589-1922 bruce.kirby@hughes.net

ExecutiveDirector PaulBaker 3568SaundersSettlementRd.,Sanborn,NY14132 CELL:716-807-6827;FAX:(716)219-4089 pbaker.hort@roadrunner.com

AdminAssistant KarenWilson 630W.NorthSt.,Geneva,NY14456 PH:315-787-2404;CELL:315-521-0852 FAX:315)787-2216;wilsonk36@hotmail.com

CornellDirector Dr.TerenceRobinson,NYSAES 630W.NorthStreet HedrickHall,Room125,Geneva,NY14456 PH:315-787-2227;CELL:315-521-0435 tlr1@cornell.edu

Director PeterFleckenstein,MarshallS.SkiffOrchards 4472CherryValleyTpk.,LaFayette,NY13084 PH:(315)436-1045;CELL:(315)664-0391 peterfleck@verizon.net

Director DanSievert LakeviewOrchards,Inc. 4941LakeRoad,Burt,NY14028 PH:716-778-7491(W);CELL:716-870-8968 lvorchards@hotmail.com

Director RoderickDressel,Jr.,DresselFarms 271Rt208,NewPaltz,NY12561 PH:845-255-0693(W);845-255-7717(H) CELL:845-399-6767 rdresseljr@aol.com

Director RobertDeBadts,LakeBreezeFruitFarm 6272LakeRoad,Sodus,NY14551 PH:315-483-0910(W),315-483-9904(H) CELL:585-739-1590 bobdebadts@aol.com;(Summer–useFAXonly)

Director PeterBarton 55AppleTreeLane,Paughquag,NY12570 PH:845-227-2306(W);845-227-7149(H) CELL:845-656-5217 pbarton@bestweb.net

Director DougFox,D&LVenturesLLC 4959FishFarmRd.,Sodus,NY14551 PH:315-483-4556 dfox12@toast.net

Director JohnIvison,HelenaChemicalCo. 165S.PlattSt,Suite100 Albion,NY14411;PH:585-589-4195(W) CELL:585-509-2262 ivisonj@helenachemical.com

Director ChuckMead,MeadOrchardsLLC 15ScismRd.,Tivoli,NY12583 PH:845-756-5641(W);CELL:845-389-0731 chuck@meadorchards.com

APPLE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ADVISORY BOARD 2011

Chairman WaltBlackler,AppleAcres 4633CherryValleyTpk.Lafayette,NY13084 PH:315-677-5144(W) wblackler@gmail.com

AlanBurr 7577SlaytonSettlementRoad,Gasport,NY14067 PH:585-772-2469;greenapple47@juno.com

SteveClarke 40ClarkesLane,Milton,NY12547 PH:845-795-2383;apelsteve@hvi.net

RodFarrow 12786KendrickRoad,Waterport,NY14571 PH:585-589-7022

MasonForrence 2740Route22,Peru,NY12972 PH:518-643-9527;forrencejm@verizon.net

TedFurber,CherryLawnFarms 8099GLoverRd.,Sodus,NY14551 PH:315-483-8529

DanMcCarthy NYStateDept.ofAgriculture&Markets 10BAirlineDrive,Albany,NY12235 PH:518-457-8857;dan.mccarthy@agmkt.state.ny.us

PeterTenEyck,IndianLadderFarms 342AltamontRoad Altamont,NY12009 PH:518-765-2956;pgteII@aol.com

RobertDeemer,Dr.Pepper/SnappleGroup 4363Rte.104 Williamson,NY14589 PH:315-589-9695ext.713

NYS BERRY GROWERS BOARD MEMBERS

Chair DaleRiggs,StonewallHillFarm 15370NYRt22,Stephentown,NY12168 PH:518-733-6772;stonewallhill@taconic.net

Treasurer TonyEmmi,EmmiFarms 1572S.IvyTrail,Baldwinsville,NY13027 PH:315-638-7679;emmifarms@aol.com

ExecutiveSecretary PaulBaker 3568SaundersSettlementRd.,Sanborn,NY14132 CELL:716-807-6827;FAX:(716)219-4089 pbaker.hort@roadrunner.com

JimBauman,BaumanFarms 1340FiveMileLineRd.,Webster,NY14580 PH:585-671-5857

BobBrownIII,Brown’sBerryPatch 14264RooseveldtHighway,Waterport,NY14571 PH:585-682-5569

BruceCarson,Carson’sBloomin’Berries 2328ReedRd. Bergen,NY14416 PH:585-494-1187;bcarson1@frontiernet.net

JimCoulter,CoulterFarms 3871N.RidgeRoad,Lockport,NY14094 PH:716-433-5335;coulterfarms@aol.com

JohnHand,HandMelonFarm 533WilberAve.,Greenwich,NY12834 PH:518-692-2376;handfarm@yahoo.com

TerryMosher,MosherFarms RD#1Box69,Bouckville,NY13310 PH:315-893-7173;tmosher@direcway.com

AlanTomion,TomionFarms 3024FergusonCornersRd.,PennYan,NY14527 PH:585-526-5852;atomion@frontiernet.net

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SUMMER 2011 • VOLUME 19 • NUMBER 2ThispublicationisajointeffortoftheNewYorkStateHorticulturalSociety,Cornell University’s NewYork State Agricultural Experiment Station atGeneva, the NewYork State Apple Research and Development Program,andtheNYSBGA.

Editors TerenceRobinsonandSteveHoying Dept.ofHorticulture NewYorkStateAgriculturalExperimentStation Geneva,NewYork14456-0462 PH:315-787-2227 tlr1@cornell.edu;sah19@cornell.edu Subscriptions KarenWilson &Advertising NYSHS,630W.NorthSt.,Geneva,NY14456 PH:315-787-2404;FAX:315)787-2216 wilsonk36@hotmail.com Design ElaineL.Gotham,GothamCityDesign,Naples,NY PH:585-374-9585;elg2@cornell.edu Production CommunicationsServices,NYSAES,Geneva,NY PH:315-787-2248;gro2@cornell.edu

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