Greasiness in Granny Smith and Royal Gala Apples
Granny Smith and Royal Gala are two cultivars which can become greasy in storage. Greasy fruit is very unappealing to the end consumer as shown by a HortResearch consumer panel which perceived fruit with a high level of surface grease to be ... [... more] HortNET New Zealand
Controlled atmosphere storage of Royal Gala apples
Royal Gala apples can be stored in a controlled (CA) atmosphere of 2% oxygen and 2% carbon dioxide for up to 24 weeks. After this length of time, CA-stored Royal Gala look "fresher" than air stored Royal Gala - for all districts, dates of [... more] HortNET New Zealand
HortNews - Hawke's Bay Growers In a Stew
A shortage of fruit pickers during the royal gala apple harvest has left Hawke's Bay growers nervous about the rest of the season. AUCKLAND 6/03/2006-A shortage of fruit pickers during the royal gala apple harvest has left Hawke's Bay growers ... [... more] HortNET New Zealand
What gives an apple its flavour?
Ripe Royal Gala apples have a pleasant "apple" smell. However the same apple can have very little flavour after storage. This begs the question - what gives an apple its flavour and what happens to these flavour compounds ? In fact we know very [... more] HortNET New Zealand
Sansa - an early maturing apple
HortResearch announces the release for grower trial of ‘Sansa’, an early, fresh-market apple, maturing up to 2 weeks before ‘Gala’. A number of breeding selections were introduced from the Morioka Research Station by DSIR during the early 1980s ... [... more] HortNET New Zealand
HortNews - Organic Certification Complex But Rewarding
Royal Gala apples certified as organic produce are selling for $90 a carton on the United States market, where conventionally grown apples fetch little more than $20 a carton, according to a certification auditor for the New Zealand organic ... [... more] HortNET New Zealand
Soaring Leafroller Incidence Costs NZ Dearly In US
The discovery of the pipfruit pest leafroller in United States-bound Royal Gala apples is costing New Zealand orchardists thousands of dollars in penalties, lost premiums and inspection costs. NELSON 10/4/2001 - The discovery of the pipfruit pest ... [... more] HortNET New Zealand
Annie Jones
Every year on the night of New Bethany's annual Splendor Belle Gala, reclusive Sera Grayson appears on the porch of her aging antebellum home dressed in a tattered ball gown. Legend holds she is reliving the greatest disappointment of her life: ... [... more] Random House
