July-August 1996

Cover: Jim Young, manager of Robert Young Vineyards in Sonoma County, inspects a block of recently planted SO-4 rootstock Phylloxera biotype B has devastated many North Coast wine grape vineyards, spurring growers to replant with resistant rootstocks such as SO-4. Photo by Jack Kelly Clark

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California Agriculture, July-August 1996

Volume 50, Number 4
Phylloxera spurs replanting of vineyards

peer-reviewed research articles

California grape phylloxera more variable than expected
by Jeffrey Granett , Andrew Walker , John De Benedictis , Genine Fong , Hong Lin , Ed Weber
pp9-13, doi#10.3733/ca.v050n04p9
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Airborne imaging aids vineyard canopy evaluation
by Lee Johnson , Brad Lobitz , Roy Armstrong , Richard Baldy , Ed Weber , John De Benedictis , Daniel Bosch
pp14-18, doi#10.3733/ca.v050n04p14
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Enzone does little to improve health of phylloxera-infested vineyards
by Ed Weber , John De Benedictis , Rhonda Smith , Jeffrey Granett
pp19-23, doi#10.3733/ca.v050n04p19
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Living with the Africanized bee: Sinaloan beekeepers adapt pollination to Africanized bees
by Francis Ratnieks , P. Kirk Visscher
pp24-28, doi#10.3733/ca.v050n04p24
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Almond trees grown on peach rootstock initially more productive
by W.C. Micke , M.W. Freeman , R.H. Beede , D.E. Kester , J.T. Yeager , K.G. Pelletreau , J.H. Connell
pp29-31, doi#10.3733/ca.v050n04p29
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Postemergence herbicides and application time affect wheat yields
by Jack P. Orr , Mick Canevari , Lee Jackson , Ray Wennig , Ryan Carner , Gail Nishimoto
pp32-36, doi#10.3733/ca.v050n04p32
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Early sexual experience improves ram breeding
by Edward O. Price , Martin R. Dally , Reid Borgwardt
pp37-40, doi#10.3733/ca.v050n04p37
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editorial, news, letters & science briefs

EDITORIAL: No final answers for some research enigmas
by W.R. Gomes
pp2, doi#10.3733/ca.v050n04p2
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Researchers stick it to ticks to curb Lyme disease
Editors
pp4-5, doi#10.3733/ca.v050n04p4
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Africanized bees advance slowly
by Kathy Barton
pp6, doi#10.3733/ca.v050n04p6
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New rootstocks stop vineyard pest for now
by Valerie Sullivan
pp7-8, doi#10.3733/ca.v050n04p7
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