flowering crop Articles
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Flowering phenology and synchrony between volunteer and cropped spring wheat: Implications for pollen-mediated gene flow
Genetically engineered (GE) wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) volunteers could present a problem in cultivated wheat because they may facilitate movement of a GE trait to other volunteers or non-GE wheat crops. However, volunteers can emerge periodically throughout the growing season and, thus, flowering overlap with the crop may be largely asynchronous, presenting a significant barrier to gene flow. ...
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What a joy to be able to grow in this - Case Study
Arc greenhouses are prized figureheads of Land in Sight Horticulture. The new, organic horticulture branch of care company Land in Zicht is an enrichment for Amersfoort. The company's clients in need of care have a fun, meaningful day out. And local residents enjoy picking sustainably grown vegetables and flowers for a small fee. "It's a resounding success, thanks in part to those fine ...
By Rovero
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Plan your fruit frost protection
Planning your fruit frost protection for the winter and spring is simple enough to do. With a few methods and tips for understanding what is the best kind of protection your crops need, you can survive the winter with little stress or worry. With our article, you will discover these very tricks for how to best use water irrigation for your crops to keep them from freezing. It is essential to keep ...
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Grow to Order and Seed Collection
Local provenance planting is important to help restore our natural habitats and retain the genetic integrity of plant populations and is strongly recommended for projects within or near environmentally sensitive areas. Forward planning is essential when undertaking local provenance seed collection as there are seasonal constraints such as seed maturation time, finding seed donor sites and gaining ...
By BritishFlora
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Thiamethoxam: Assessing flight activity of honeybees foraging on treated oilseed rape using RFID technology
This study was designed to assess homing behaviour of bees foraging on winter oilseed rape grown from seed treated with thiamethoxam (as Cruiser OSR) with one field drilled with thiamethoxam treated seed and two control fields drilled with fungicide‐only treated seed. Twelve honeybee colonies were used per treatment group, 4 each located at the field edge (on‐field site), at approximately 500m ...
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Sustainability of Current Agricultural Practices in The Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
Cameron Highlands is a mountainous region with steep slopes. Gradients exceeding 20◦ are common. The climate is favourable to the cultivation of tea, sub-tropical vegetables and flowers (under rain-shelter). Crop production is sustained by high fertiliser and manure applications. However, agriculture in this environment is characterised by high levels of soil erosion and environmental ...
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Sustainability of Current Agricultural Practices in The Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
Cameron Highlands is a mountainous region with steep slopes. Gradients exceeding 20∘ are common. The climate is favourable to the cultivation of tea, sub-tropical vegetables and flowers (under rain-shelter). Crop production is sustained by high fertiliser and manure applications. However, agriculture in this environment is characterised by high levels of soil erosion and environmental ...
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Why to use sulphur coated urea fertilizer
With the continuous improvement of the level of agricultural science and technology, the promotion of high-yield varieties, the improvement of land re cultivation index, and the vigorous development of economic crops, flowers and urban greening. The growth of crops and the ecological balance of nutrients in the soil are becoming more and more serious, and the phenomenon of crop sulfur deficiency ...
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Ammoniation granulation of NPK compound fertilizer production line
Compound fertilizer is suitable for all kinds of soil, wheat, corn, melon and fruit, peanut, vegetables, beans, flowers, fruit trees and other crops and economic crops. It is suitable for base fertilizer, seed fertilizer, topdressing, seed fertilizer and flushing application. The compound fertilizer produced by ammoniation granulation NPK compound fertilizer production line adopts ammoniation and ...
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NPK compound fertilizer production line ammoniating granulation
Ammonization granulation of npk compound fertilizer production line: The principle is to add potassium chloride and sulfuric acid into the reaction tank to heat and react under certain conditions. After the escaped HCL gas is absorbed by water, a certain concentration of hydrochloric acid can be produced to produce potassium hydrogen sulfate Mixed with dilute phosphoric acid to form mixed acid. ...
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Biocontrol: How Strawberry Growers are leading the way
According to Dr. Surendra Dara of the University of California Cooperative Extension, 90-95% of strawberry growers in California use predatory mites to manage two-spotted spider mites. But how did this pest control method get so widely adopted? What can growers of other crops learn from this experience? To discuss this topic, I reached out to Lane Stoeckle, a certified crop advisor and pest ...
By UAV-IQ, LLC.
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Demystifying Light Levels for Cannabis Grows
As more and more investors, opportunists and growers are jumping onto the green rush that is the cannabis industry right now there is also a big influx of folks who are learning as they go. Lighting is a major purchase for this industry as a big margin of growers still prefer the better climate control and security of growing indoors and even those who choose to grow in a greenhouse are finding ...
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Pesticides in the European Union
There has been a sharply falling trend in the total volume of sales of agricultural pesticides in the EU between 1991 and 1995. But this was reversed in 1996. From 1991-1995, EU sales of pesticides, measured by weight of active ingredients (ai), fell by 13%. They then rose by 6% between 1995 and 1996 to stand at 299,826 tonnes ai. But this still put them nearly 8% below the 1991 figure. The use ...
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Leaf Area - How & Why Measuring Leaf Area is Vital to Plant Research
What is Leaf Area? It is easy to measure leaves, and they are also the parts of a plant most responsive to their environment. The combination of these two factors makes leaf area measurement extremely useful to scientists and growers. Besides, leaves are one of the main plant organs and are responsible for the productivity of a plant, and on a larger scale, of an ecosystem or a farm. Therefore, ...
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Urban farming is booming, but what does it really yield?
City-based agriculture produces 15 to 20 percent of food globally. In the U.S., its benefits go far beyond nutrition. This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a non-profit investigative news organization. Midway through spring, the nearly bare planting beds of Carolyn Leadley’s Rising Pheasant Farms, in the Poletown neighborhood of ...
By Ensia
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