As the cherry season enters the last few weeks of harvest in Australia, growers may soon have a little free time to do some valuable reading about cherries. Although the recently released book, Sweet Cherries is based on cherry growing in the USA, two of the authors, Lynn Long and Greg Lang are well known in Australia.
Both have visited here many times, including for national fruit conferences and speaking tours. Together with Clive Kaiser, the three scientific authors are known world–wide for their valuable work and contribution to the cherry industry. I commend the book to you. The link to buy a copy is www.cabi.org/bookshop/book/9781786398284
Together with Dr. Clive Kaiser, the three scientific authors are known world wide for their valuable work and contribution to the cherry industry in general.
I commend the book to you, the link to buy a copy is www.cabi.org/bookshop/book/9781786398284/
About the book
The book provides comprehensive coverage of sustainable sweet cherry production including global trends, improved varieties and rootstocks, orchard establishment and management, the physiology of growth and cropping, and protecting the crop from adverse climates, pests, and diseases.
Written by a renowned team of experts, this book emphasizes fresh market sweet cherry production practices based on scientific principles. It serves as a resource for a scientific foundational understanding of cherry tree growth and fruit development, providing the keys to both reasoned choice of orchard practices and the solution of future problems across a wide range of growing conditions and environments.
The book covers improved sweet cherry varieties and rootstocks; describes tree training and production systems; and considers production risk management technologies and decisions.
Heavily illustrated and presented in colour, Sweet Cherries is written with practical details and underlying physiological concepts for use by beginning and established fruit growers, consultants and advisors, in addition to students and professionals in horticulture.
Table of contents includes: cherry flowering, fruiting, and cultivars; rootstocks; planning a new cherry orchard; orchard establishment and production; pruning fundamentals; training systems; managing the orchard environment; fruit ripening and harvest; managing orchard pests, pathogens and disorders; the future of cherry production
Authors biographies
Lynn Long is a retired Professor and Extension Horticulturist, hired by Oregon State University in 1988 to deliver Extension programming to the cherry growers of north central Oregon, the largest cherry production region of the state.
For much of his career, Lynn has focused his research and extension efforts on evaluating new cherry varieties, rootstocks and training systems.
Gregory Lang has been a professor of tree fruit physiology at Michigan State University (MSU) and program leader for the stone fruit physiology laboratory since 2000. His areas of expertise include tree fruit horticulture (development and management of sustainable orchard systems —pruning, training, growth regulation, and protective orchard covering systems, with particular emphasis on sweet cherry), tree fruit physiology (environmental stress, developmental and reproductive physiology, carbohydrate and nitrogen partitioning and utilization), and Prunus germplasm improvement and evaluation.
Dr. Clive Kaiser is a pomologist, having worked on multiple different cropping systems on four continents. He has worked in academia, government and private industry in both exports and imports.
He has been working on sweet cherries since 2000 and his work has resulted in several US and International Patents for plant coatings that prevent fruit cracking, reduce water usage in production systems and prevent insects from laying eggs in sweet cherry fruit.
(See our Orchard Manuals page for growing cherries in Australia)
See this article in Tree Fruit Jan 2021
