If you have a large orchard, you may also need to consider applying a fungicide to keep the disease from spreading. Generally, peach scab infections are not too serious a problem. While the fruits don ...

However, there are many things that can stand in the way of biting into a juicy peach or a crisp apple. One of these potential impediments is diseases, which, unfortunately, are all too common in ...

A scab after surgery is a normal part of healing. It forms at the incision site to protect the skin underneath while it heals. Removing a scab can impede healing, so it's best to let it fall off on ...

It has been found that epithelization is retarded by the dry scab which normally covers a superficial wound, and if the formation of the scab is prevented, the rate of epithelization is markedly ...

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Food for thought. Chris Gerlach, VP of Insights and Analytics with USApple, touches on several key topics relevant to growers of all fruit types.

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That can slow down healing. It also puts you at risk for infection, since your fingers and nails can introduce bacteria or other germs into the wound. Scratching the wound or picking at the scab as it ...

Thus, a correction is generally needed to transform the sap flow data into transpiration data. Paço et al. (2004) measured peach tree sap flow in central Portugal. They used the relationship of sap ...