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‘Sunland’ peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch] has been released to provide a cultivar well-adapted to the southeastern United States that ripens slightly later than ’Harvester’. ‘Sunland’ is similar to ‘Harvester’ in color and firmness, but has larger fruit.
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Fruit of 3 of 70 trees from a cross of ‘Pekin’ peach x ‘Durbin’ nectarine [(Prunus persica (L.) Batsch)] had a dull, slightly rough surface intermediate in appearance to the shiny, smooth surface of a nectarine and the pubescent surface of a peach. Scanning electron photomicrographs of the epidermis revealed short, often multicellular, papillae 20–80 μm in length but no long hairs of the normal 200–500 μm length. Fruit buds on the three trees were glabrous in contrast to the pubescent buds of peaches and nectarines.
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‘Starlite’ peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch] has been released to provide an early white-fleshed peach for local markets. The fruit is larger and more uniform in size, shape, and maturity than ‘Springtime’, the leading white-fleshed cultivar of its season.
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‘Durbin’ nectarine [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch] is an early mid-season cultivar with medium sized, attractive fruit. Under southeastern conditions. ‘Durbin’s’ size and disease resistance are superior to other nectarines.
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In a site with a history of short life of peach trees, brown discoloration of trunk cambial area was greater in trees pruned in November or December than in trees pruned in January. Trees pruned in February had less discoloration than those pruned in January. Mortality was greater among trees pruned in November or December than among those pruned in January. Mortality was less in trees pruned in February than those pruned earlier. However, there was little injury and no tree death when trees were pruned on different dates on a site with no short life problem.
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Two leaf color characters, solid red and variegated red, are associated with early fruit ripening in peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch]. These color characters appear in leaves approaching senescence and can be scored in 1-year-old seedlings.
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‘Explorer‘ plum (complex hybrid with reciprocal representations of Prunus salicina Lindl., P. americana Marsh., and P. simonii Carr.) was released by the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide a large, July-maturing, amberfleshed purple plum adapted to Japanese-type plum-growing areas of the southeastern United States.
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‘Robusto’ plum (a complex diploid plum hybrid composed of Prunus salicina Lindl., P. angustifolia March., P. americana Marsh., P. cerasifera J. F. Ehrh., and P. simonii Carr.) has been released to provide the southeastern United States with a cultivar which extends the early fresh and processing ‘Bruce’ season. ‘Robusto’ is similar to ‘Bruce’ in appearance, better in quality, and matures approximately a week later.
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‘Sunprince’ peach [Prunus persica (L.) Batsch] has been released to provide a cultivar adapted to the southeastern United States ripening in ‘Redskin’ and ‘Blake’ season with better external color and shape than ‘Redskin’ and higher bacterial spot resistance than ‘Blake’.