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CULTURE AND FERTILITY:.

 7. Albregts, E. E., and C. M. Howard. 1982. Effect of transplant stress on
 strawberry performance. HortScience 17 (4):651-652.

 Subjecting harvested transplants of strawberry (Fragaria X ananassa Duch. cvs.
 Florida Belle and Dover) to excessive wilting increased foliage loss and
 plant mortality and reduced plant size and January fruit yields.

 8. Albregts, E. E., and C. M. Howard. 1982. Response of fruiting strawberries
 to micronutrient fertilization. Proc. Soil and Crops Sci. Soc. Fla. 41:158-16C.

 Strawberries (Fragaria X ananassa Duch.) were grown for two fruiting seasons
 on a well drained fine sand which had not been fertilized for at least 12
 years. Each season micronutrients were applied pre-plant as 1) fritted trace
 elements (FTE 503) at 45 kg/ha, 2) as a mixture of micronutrients in the oxide
 form applied at the rate of 680 g B and Cu, 4050 g Fe, 1690 g Mn, and 1580 g/
 Zn/ha, 3) the oxide form of micronutrient applied at double the proceeding
 rate, and 4) a control. There were no significant differences in fruit yields,
 fruit quality, and elemental composition of the fruit because of treatment.
 Treatment differences were obtained for Mn, Cu, and Zn content of the leaf
 blades and the Zn content of the soil. The B content of the leaf blades was
 in the deficient range with all treatments the second season, but no foliage
 or fruit deficiency symptoms were evident.

 9. Albregts, E. E., and C. M. Howard. 1982. Effect of fertilizer rate on number
 of malformed strawberry fruit. Proc. Fla. State Hort. Soc. 95:323-324.

 'Dover' and 'Tufts' strawberry (Fragaria X ananassa Duch.) plants were
 fertilized at 65, 130, and 195 1bs/N/acre with isobutylidene diurea and
 evaluated for number of malformed fruit of marketable weight. Phosphorus and
 potassium were supplied to all treatments at 27 and 162 lbs/acre,
 respectively. The percent of the fruit malformed increased with increased
 nitrogen rate. The effect was most noticeable in the March and April
 harvests. A greater percentage of the 'Tufts' than of the 'Dover' fruit were
 malformed. Leaf N and soil NO3-N increased with increasing rates of applied N.
 Foliage color was darker green and plant size was larger with higher rates
 of applied N.

 10. Albregts, E. E., and C. M. Howard. 1982. Effect of stress on strawberry
 transplant growth and fruiting response. Dover ARC Research Report DOV-1982-
 3. 5 pp.

 Since most strawberry transplants set in the fruiting field in Florida are
 not dormant, they are more subject to stress. Transplants are removed from the
 soil in the nursery, placed in small bundles, and handled in various ways
 until set in the fruiting field. Some transplants are set in the fruiting
 field immediately after removal from soil, while others are placed in coolers
 for an indefinite period before transplanting. Occasionally, growers will bur,
 the plant roots in the nursery soil for periods ranging from one to five
 hours. Some plants are occasionally left on the soil surface, either in the
 nursery or fruiting field, for lengthy periods. Transplants are also placed
 under stress between time of running the blade under the plants in nursery
 until irrigation is started on transplants after setting in the fruiting
 field. Because the weather is very warm during plant harvest, excessive