Avishai Avni's research while affiliated with Hebrew University of Jerusalem and other places

... Olive trees usually respond to N fertilization [1][2][3][4][5][6], but require less amounts of this nutrient than other crops, such as maize (Zea mays L.) or potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.), as nutrient removal by olive trees is low, especially when grown under rainfed conditions [7][8][9][10]. ...

... In many species, fruit thinning is performed manually, and only in some cases it can be performed chemically, such as in apple and olive [32,33]. In olive, chemical thinning has been found to be an effective practice to control fruit yield and, consequently, reduce alternate bearing [21,33,34]. Chemical fruit thinning has been used in olives since the 1950s in California [35]. ...

... 'Manzanilla') reported by Rallo and Martin [16] and Ramos [8]. The differences in the amount of flower formation are expected, considering the well-documented alternate bearing behavior of the olive tree, and could relate to competition for assimilates and different inhibitory factors [22][23][24][25]. It is possible that the consistent temporal patterns we observed between ON and OFF trees, in spite of the quantitative differences in budburst percentages (Figures 1 and 3), support the hypothesis of separate controls of flowering level and dormancy release. ...

... For example, other evergreen fruit trees neighboring the experiment, such as olives or avocados, yield 3 months later and require a longer fruit development period. As these crops (mango, olive, avocado) have similar energetic fruit load (approximately 7.5-8.1 ton glucose hectare −1 ; (Bustan et al. 2011;Silber et al. 2013;Léchaudel et al. 2005), the faster ripening of mangos imposes twice as large sinks as compared with olives and avocados. These strong sinks can be associated with the larger increase of g s or K L reported for mangos during fruit maturation ( Fig. 5; Fig. 6; de Azevedo et al. 2003;Lu et al. 2012) or the low water requirements of mangos during fruit removal (Fig. 7). ...