Soil pathogen control with 1,3-D followed by metam sodium and 1,3-D with intermittent water seals was inconsistent between the two experiments, which suggests that specific micro- and macro-level differences in environmental and field conditions may contribute to greater treatment variability and risk to growers.When 1,3-D was sealed with HDPE and VIF, broad leaf weed density was …
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Four replicates consisting of five fruit per treatment were obtained at each sampling point
Jasmonic acid and ET are known to be involved in defense responses against necrotrophs, such as mediating the host’s responses against them, but ET is also required for fruit ripening and senescence processes, which are conducive to disease susceptibility. Jasmonic acid can also mediate the disease resistance of fruit by increasing the fruit antioxidant capacity, …
Providing guidance for healthy lifestyle choices may limit risk factors perpetuated by childhood obesity
Recent years have seen rapid growth in the number of published studies, increased numbers of scientific conferences and development of legal framework and legislation. These trends will inevitably improve the image of this industry and the efficacy of products. Two significant problems still exist within the industry broadly: preparations of products with highly complex multi-component and incompletely identified composition make …
Nutrients would diffuse and advect from the bulk soil toward the root zone
However, more work is required to determine how to better represent coupled microbe–plant nutrient competition and transport limitations. For example, we have previously shown that one can apply a homogenous soil environment assumption and include the substrate diffusivity constraint in the ECA competition parameters. In this approach, the diffusivity constraint can be directly integrated into the substrate …
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The EU follows both decentralized processes as well as centralized procedures covering all Member States
Accordingly, continuous harvesting and extraction can be carried out using appropriate equipment such as screw presses , whereas continuous filtration and chromatography can take advantage of the same equipment successfully used with microbial and mammalian cell cultures . Therefore, plant-based production platforms can benefit from the same >4-fold increase in space-time yield that can be achieved by continuous …
Primers were designed for these specific reads and are under testing
Reports from all over the world show that several destructive isolates of CTV, not dependent on sensitive rootstocks, may suddenly appear as a result of rearrangements or mutations of the genome. Also, it appears that bio-indexing on indicator plants or other official equivalent methods cannot help to limit the introduction of exotic strains, given that …
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Mineral oil was then carefully layered on top of each sample to prevent evaporation
Surface area-proportional growth could arise if nutrient/waste exchange across the plasma membrane is a limiting factor for growth. We observed that red light-illuminated optoBem1 cells also exhibited a change in DNA content over time. While most cells maintained a ploidy of 2N or less during the first 3 h of Bem1 disruption, a population of …
The obtained inverted responses were compared with the responses of the true models
Because of their central positions, the electrodes are closer to the expected sources of current and thus in the region of maximum potential gradient. Hence, this electrode configuration maximizes the changes in both magnitude and sign of the measured ΔV associated with a change in the CSD distribution. The electrode diameter was 1.5 mm. The penetration …
We are unaware of any published measurements of CH4 concentrations in xylem sap
There are numerous reports of upland forests and savannas that switched for periods of time to CH4 sources , and wet-land forests that switched to CH4 sinks . In most cases the proximate cause for the shift was a change in soil water content, but the ultimate cause varied from seasonal shifts in precipitation and …
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We present and discuss studies supporting this hypothesis
These insecticides have outstanding efficacy in crop protection against a number of pest invertebrates , especially piercing–sucking insect herbivores . However, neonicotinoids have limited efficacy against lepidopteran and coleopteran pests . Advantages associated with systemic insecticides over nonsystemic insecticides include: 1) reduced sensitivity to spray coverage and canopy penetration , as the active ingredient translocates …
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