planting material Articles
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Enhancing Foliage Color of Ornamental Cabbage and Kale with LEDs
Enhancing Foliage Color of Ornamental Cabbage and Kale with Prior-to-Shipping Light and Temperature Treatments in Coolers Introduction Ornamental flowering cabbage and kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala) is a bedding plant that is typically produced outdoors in the late summer and early fall. It is popular due to its vibrant and intense purple, white, and pink foliage colors that are ...
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Industrial Production of Plant-based Milk Alternatives
More and more consumers are turning to plant-based milk alternatives instead of cow’s milk. As such, the market has seen constant development in recent years. In this interview, Andreas Metzenauer, Head of Beverages and Dairy at Flottweg, provides some interesting facts about how plant-based milk alternatives are produced and how industrial centrifuges are used for this. Everyone is ...
By Flottweg SE
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Acciona turns sod on Spanish biomass plant
Acciona Energía has started work on the 50MW Logrosán biomass plant in Extremadura, Spain. Located 10km from the urban centre of the municipality, the Logrosán biomass plant will have a total of 200,000 square metres of surface, with just over half of the space dedicated to storage of the raw material. The start of production is scheduled for the second half of 2025 ...
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A call to conserve crops’ wild cousins
Wild cousins aren’t always appreciated at family gatherings. But when it comes to crops, the opposite is often true: Plant breeding has historically relied on genes from plants growing in the wild as a source of diversity that can be introduced into crop plants to produce new crop varieties that are more resilient, nutritious and productive than those currently cultivated. As human ...
By Ensia
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