“…By contrast, the response of fruit trees and soft fruits to O $ has received limited attention and many of the existing studies have only considered the effects on yield or on specific physiological processes. The only studies taking an integrated approach to yield, growth and gas exchange, or chlorophyll fluorescence characteristics, have been on Citrus chinensis (Olszyk et al, 1990(Olszyk et al, , 1991, Prunus persica (Paolacci et al, 1995), Prunus salicina (Retzlaff et al, 1992(Retzlaff et al, , 1997 and Fragariaiananassa (Takemoto et al, 1988(Takemoto et al, , 1989, whereas effects on yield alone have been investigated in C. chinensis (Thompson & Taylor, 1969 ;Thompson et al, 1972) ; Citrus limon (Thompson & Taylor, 1969), Rubus idaeus (Sullivan et al, 1994) and Vitis vinifera (Soja et al, 1997).…”