Lu Zhang, Srijana Panta, Niels Maness, & Richard Heerema

Insight into alternate bearing — do carbohydrates drive it?

The alternate bearing of pecan shows a symptom of irregular fruiting habit with one heavy crop followed by one or more years of poor production. The alternate bearing (one ‘on’ year, one ‘off’ year) trait in pecan is also sometimes referred to as “masting” (one ‘on’ year followed by two or more ‘off’ years), which...