Although we did not directly measure selection in this study, we used the large body of work on drought adaptation to infer the adaptive value of specific trait combinations. We predicted that due to the drought escape strategy conferred by derived loss of function mutations at FRI, accessions with these alleles would inhabit environments with …
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Utopia is recognized as a historically colonial project by postcolonial sf scholars
Karl Hardy, in his excellent essay on the historical-colonial roots of “utopia” and the tentative possibilities of its use in Indigenous politics, cites research that Thomas More’s Utopia may have been the first instance of the Roman word colonia in the English language. Hardy also points out that More’s utopians are colonists themselves, who conquer …
Trends in farm and near-farm jobs are mixed
Harvesting activity moves to the coastal plains in the second quarter of April June, as lemons and oranges are harvested in southern California and vegetable crops are thinned and then harvested in the Salinas Valley of northern California. June marks the second highest month of employment on the state’s farms, as workers harvest strawberries and vegetables …
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Supplemental funding of $258 million was paid directly to California farmers
Agricultural producers in California received $586 million in federal assistance in 2001; Of this about $242 million came as production flexibility contracts and loan deficiency payments.The remainder of government payments to farmers came in the form of marketing support and conservation payments, which we discuss later in this chapter. While these federal government support payments …
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Marketing California’s agricultural production presents unique opportunities and challenges
Fruits,tree-nuts, and vegetables represent about half of these totals, while dairy and poultry products, and grains are also major contributors.In 1998, fresh and processed fruits, tree-nuts, and vegetables had the greatest impact of any commodity group on California’s economy, generating about half the direct and indirect sales, total income, value added and jobs related to …
The first consisted of measures primarily intended to drain and protect agricultural land
For these reasons California became the only substantial market for the header technology. The header technology evolved in an entirely different direction from the reaper, leading directly to the development in California of a commercial combined harvester. From the starting point of the header, it was quite simple and natural to add a thresher pulled …
Recently developed occupancy models are designed for this task
Under baseline conditions, agricultural land use comprised 46% of the study area. Vineyard, pasture, and row crops make up approximately a quarter each of this agricultural area, followed by grains , while alfalfa, rice, and orchards accounted for less than 4% each. Under the enhanced agriculture scenario, the agricultural footprint increased to 68% of the study area, and …
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Nitrogen content might be related to decomposability of fungal tissue
Mannuronate and guluronate blocks of the alginate have the capability for Mn2+ binding . However, at high alginate treatment the accumulation of Mn in roots was similar to the accumulation obtained with NPs alone. More experiments are needed to explain these results. In the case of Zn, the medium alginate treatment increased its accumulation in roots by …
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Insertional mutagenesis is a powerful strategy for gene identification and functional genomics in plants
We also demonstrate the importance of resin selection and thorough chromatography operation optimization by evaluating the cost benefit of maximizing resin binding capacity to target product. Of course, further work is needed to verify whether the use of column chromatography is needed. Transient production of thaumatin in the edible crop Spinacia oleracea was also economically competitive and …
Doubled haploids quickly provide largeamounts of seed for replicated field trials
Since these technologies are unlikely to be mission critical during Artemis, their TRL can be increased and their risk factors studied through in-space evaluation. The Artemis missions also provide a test bed to evaluate the space-based evolution of microbes and alterations of seed stocks as a risk inherent to the biological component of the biomanufactory. This risk …
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