Pear Rootstock and Regulated Deficit Irrigation Plot-Project Review
Author: Peter G. Sanderson
Published: 2000
Summary: This plot was first conceived by George Ing and Fred Valentine in 1993 or earlier as a rootstock plot for the pear industry of Washington. At the time I was hired by the WTFRC, no effective pear horticultural work was in progress in Washington. This plot was to be a first step in revitalizing a pear horticultural research program in the state. From the start, the plot was controversial with strongly voiced support from representatives on the northern growing districts and ambivalent and sometimes strongly negative criticism from the southern growing districts.
