{"id":327,"date":"2025-05-22T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/galimbalab\/?page_id=327"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:17:07","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/galimbalab\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8492\/files\/2025\/02\/Pear-Trees-in-Bloom-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105\" style=\"width:237px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8492\/files\/2025\/02\/Pear-Trees-in-Bloom-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8492\/files\/2025\/02\/Pear-Trees-in-Bloom-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8492\/files\/2025\/02\/Pear-Trees-in-Bloom-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8492\/files\/2025\/02\/Pear-Trees-in-Bloom-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/8492\/files\/2025\/02\/Pear-Trees-in-Bloom-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Our research program focuses on all aspects of pear (<em>Pyrus communis<\/em>) and sweet cherry (<em>Prunus avium<\/em>) orchard production systems, with a particular emphasis on improving yield and fruit quality in both crops. Current projects include the development of bud cold hardiness models to predict frost risk in sweet cherry and pear, optimizing irrigation practices for establishing the dwarfing pear rootstock \u2018Quince Eline\u2019, and using physiological indicators to identify X-disease-infected cherry trees. We are also investigating sweet cherry rootstock sensitivity to X-disease. Collaborative efforts involve evaluating phase-two selections from the WSU sweet cherry breeding program and assessing non-<em>Pyrus<\/em> rootstocks that may offer dwarfing and precocity benefits to pear scions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our research program focuses on all aspects of pear (Pyrus communis) and sweet cherry (Prunus avium) orchard production systems, with a particular emphasis on improving yield and fruit quality in both crops. Current projects include the development of bud cold &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/galimbalab\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14728,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-327","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/galimbalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/galimbalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/galimbalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/galimbalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14728"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/galimbalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/galimbalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/galimbalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/327\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/galimbalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}