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Apple Fruit Growth and Maturity are Affected by Early Season Temperatures by Warrington, I.J, Fulton, T.A, Halligan, E.A, de Silva, H.N

“…Container-grown `Delicious', `Golden Delicious', `Braeburn', `Fuji' and `Royal Gala' apple [ Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill. var. domestica (Borkh.) Mansf.] trees,…”
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Prediction of storage disorders of kiwifruit ( Actinidia chinensis) based on visible-NIR spectral characteristics at harvest by Clark, C.J., McGlone, V.A., De Silva, H.N., Manning, M.A., Burdon, J., Mowat, A.D.

“…Visible (VIS)-near infrared (NIR) analysis (300–1140 nm) was performed on 15,000 kiwifruit ( Actinidia chinensis Planch. var . chinensis ‘Hort16A’) sampled on…”
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Molecular Genetics and Genomics and Kiwifruit Breeding by McNeilage, M.A, Fraser, L.G, Tsang, G.K, Datson, P.M, De Silva, H.N, Crowhurst, R.N, Ferguson, A.R

“…All breeding stocks for kiwifruit improvement have been recently collected from wild populations. The 1904 accession into New Zealand gave rise to a successful…”
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Use of EST-Derived Microsatellites as Markers in the Development of a Genetic Map in Kiwifruit by Fraser, L.G, McNeilage, M.A, Tsang, G.K, De Silva, H.N, MacRae, E.A

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Genetic Markers: Their Transferability and Usefulness across Actinidia by Tsang, G.K, Fraser, L.G, McNeilage, M.A, De Silva, H.N, MacRae, E.A

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Fruit fresh mass-diameter relationship for 'Royal Gala' apple across seasons and among fruit production regions of New Zealand by De Silva, H.N, Tustin, D.S, Cashmore, W.M, Stanley, C.J, Lupton, G, McArtney, S.J

“…A number of mass-diameter equations were compared for their potential use in indirect measurement of fruit masses of 'Royal Gala' apple (Malus xdomestica). The…”
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Exploration and exploitation of soil by apple, kiwifruit, peach, Asian pear and grape roots by Hughes, K.A. (Horticulture and Food Research Inst., Palmerston North (New Zealand)), Gandar, P.W, Silva, H.N. de

“…Measurements of root-length density (RLD) in a range of 31 apple, kiwifruit, peach, Asian pear and grape orchards were used to derive indices to describe the…”
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Storage potential of new kiwifruit selections under different storage scenarios by Feng, R.J., Olsson, S.R., Currie, M.J., White, A., Hallett, I.C., de Silva, H.N., Billing, D.P., Kashuba, P., Astill, M.S.

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EST-derived microsatellites from Actinidia species and their potential for mapping by Fraser, L.G, Harvey, C.F, Crowhurst, R.N, De Silva, H.N

“…To increase the speed and reduce the cost of constructing a genetic map of Actinidia species (kiwifruit), for use in both breeding and functional genomics…”
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Evaluation of softening characteristics of fruit from 14 species of Actinidia by White, Anne, Nihal de Silva, H., Requejo-Tapia, Cecilia, Roger Harker, F.

“…Softening of 25 genotypes of kiwifruit, representing 14 species and three families of the genus Actinidia, was characterized during ripening at 20 °C…”
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The effect of mating behaviour on progeny sex ratio of Mastrus ridens (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), a biological control agent of codling moth by Sandanayaka, W.R.M., Chhagan, A., Page-Weir, N.E.M., de Silva, H.N., Charles, J.G.

“…Mastrus ridens (Horstmann) (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) was imported into quarantine as a potential biocontrol agent for codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.)…”
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Undergraduate perceptions on transitioning into E-learning for continuation of higher education during the COVID pandemic in a developing country: a cross-sectional study from Sri Lanka by Subashini, Nirma, Udayanga, Lahiru, De Silva, L H N, Edirisinghe, J C, Nafla, M N

“…The higher education was significantly influenced by the COVID pandemic within many developing countries, including Sri Lanka, necessitating to adopt more…”
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Instrumental measurement of apple texture: A comparison of the single-edge notched bend test and the penetrometer by Harker, F. Roger, White, Anne, Gunson, F. Anne, Hallett, Ian C., De Silva, H. Nihal

“…The single-edge notched bend (SENB) test is a technique for measuring fundamental properties of materials. This technique is an easily applied measure of fruit…”
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Cross-species amplification of microsatellite loci within the dioecious, polyploid genus Actinidia (Actinidiaceae) by Fraser, L.G, McNeilage, M.A, Tsang, G.K, Harvey, C.F, De Silva, H.N

“…Microsatellite marker transfer across species in the dioecious genus Actinidia (kiwifruit) could offer an efficient and time-effective technique for use during…”
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MODELLING THE EFFECT OF HOLDING TEMPERATURE ON FLESH DE-GREENING OF 'HORT16A' (ZESPRI™ GOLD) KIWIFRUIT by De Silva, H.N., Hall, A.J., Burdon, J., Lallu, N., Connolly, P., Amos, N.

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DNA fingerprinting of apple (Malus spp.) rootstocks using simple sequence repeats by Oraguzie, N.C, Yamamoto, T, Soejima, J, Suzuki, T, De Silva, H.N

“…Identification of apple clonal rootstocks based on visual morphological characteristics is often difficult because of the genetic similarity of many rootstocks…”
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ASSESSMENT OF FRUIT SOFTENING ATTRIBUTES OF ACTINIDIA DELICIOSA SEEDLING VINES by White, A., De Silva, H.N., Petley, M.B., Harker, F.R.

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Variation of Fruit Size and Growth within an Apple Tree and its Influence on Sampling Methods for Estimating the Parameters of Mid-season Size Distributions by De Silva, H.N., Hall, A.J., Cashmore, W.M., Tustin, D.S.

“…This paper presents a quantitative description of variation of mid-season (62 days after bloom) fruit weight (FW) and proceeding growth rates within an apple…”
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Apple fruit growth and maturity are affected by early season temperature by Warrington, I.J, Fulton, T.A, Halligan, E.A, De Silva, H.N

“…Container-grown 'Delicious', 'Golden Delicious', 'Braeburn', 'Fuji' and 'Royal Gala' apple [Malus sylvestris (L.) Mill. var. domestica (Borkh.) Mansf.] trees,…”
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Fitting SB distributions to fruit sizes with implications for prediction methods by De Silva, H.N, Lai, C.D, Ball, R.D

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