What new research into carbohydrates is teaching us about California orchards

Katherine Jarvis-Shean, UCCE Orchard Advisor, Sacramento, Solano and Yolo Counties
Maciej A. Zwieniecki, Dept Plant Sciences, UC Davis

Recent years of research by the Zwieniecki lab (the Z Lab) at UC Davis, including the Carbohydrate Observatory, have been shedding light on what is happening in orchard trees during their yearly cycles, including during this dormant period, and how that interplays with how trees prepare for winter and emerge from dormancy in the spring, to bloom and leaf-out. This research has been used to better explain how trees may be counting winter chill and spring heat. In almond, this new knowledge has been used to create a bloom prediction tool.

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