Can light interception of intensive apple and pear orchard systems be increased with new approaches to tree design?

Abstract

ISHS XXIX International Horticultural Congress on Horticulture: Sustaining Lives, Livelihoods and Landscapes (IHC2014): International Symposia on the Physiology of Perennial Fruit Crops and Production Systems and Mechanisation, Precision Horticulture and Robotics Can light interception of intensive apple and pear orchard systems be increased with new approaches to tree design?