{"id":19,"date":"2020-01-22T00:48:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T00:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/134.121.193.105\/treefruitnew\/2019-impact-report\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2020-01-24T00:42:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T00:42:26","slug":"endowed-chair-in-tree-fruit-physiology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/treefruit.wsu.edu\/2019-impact-report\/endowed-chair-in-tree-fruit-physiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Endowed Chair in Tree Fruit Physiology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row  pad-bottom gutter single\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"column one\"  style=\"\">\n<div class=\"cpb-textblock cpb-item list-style-arrows\">\n<h1><strong><span style=\"color: #981e32;\">Endowed Chair<\/span><\/strong> in Tree Fruit Physiology<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-178\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/treefruit.wsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/24004129\/Stefano-Musacchi-1.jpg\" alt=\"Stefano Musacchi sitting in apple orchard.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/treefruit.wsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/24004129\/Stefano-Musacchi-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/treefruit.wsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/24004129\/Stefano-Musacchi-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/treefruit.wsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/24004129\/Stefano-Musacchi-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/treefruit.wsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/24004129\/Stefano-Musacchi-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/treefruit.wsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/24004129\/Stefano-Musacchi-1-396x264.jpg 396w, https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/treefruit.wsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/24004129\/Stefano-Musacchi-1-792x528.jpg 792w, https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/treefruit.wsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/24004129\/Stefano-Musacchi-1-990x660.jpg 990w, https:\/\/s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/treefruit.wsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/01\/24004129\/Stefano-Musacchi-1-1188x792.jpg 1188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Based at Wenatchee, <strong>Stefano Musacchi<\/strong> researches training, pruning, and management techniques to ensure high-performing orchards and high fruit quality. Originally from Italy, Musacchi joined WSU in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Endowment funds have allowed Musacchi and his team to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop improved pruning techniques to minimize blind wood in WA 38 trees. When combined with other beneficial practices, these techniques could add more than $60 million in economic impact.<\/li>\n<li>Replace older cultivars while maintaining existing root systems. Top work is very common in Washington. Musacchi leads a project developing a multi-axis system in which WA 38 was top-worked onto a mature Granny Smith orchard grafted on M9 rootstocks. His work helps compare training systems, allowing growers to turn old orchards into modern 2D canopies suitable for mechanization of principal operations.<\/li>\n<li>Lead NC140 apple rootstock trials to evaluate the most innovative genotypes from around the world.<\/li>\n<li>Lead research on new potential apple pollinizer genotypes with improved resistance to quarantine diseases.<\/li>\n<li>Support the pear industry by exploring pear maturity variability in the canopy, developing new multi-axis training systems in pears, and evaluating 15 new quince rootstock genotypes to identify ones that perform well in high-density planting pear orchards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endowed Chair in Tree Fruit Physiology Based at Wenatchee, Stefano Musacchi researches training, pruning, and management techniques to ensure high-performing orchards and high fruit quality. Originally from Italy, Musacchi joined WSU in 2013. Endowment funds have allowed Musacchi and his team to: Develop improved pruning techniques to minimize blind wood in WA 38 trees. 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