Alternate bearing is also perhaps one of the oldest known plant behaviors, as written descriptions of it can be found going back over several millennia. Most often these references are simple observations of trees that flower in one year but not the next , or as one early account of cider production in England elegantly …
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Allow the most vigorous upright shoot to continue its growth as the central leader
Pruning mature open center fruit trees involves keeping the center free of vigorous upright shoots, reducing tree height, and thinning out branches to reduce crowding. For peaches and nectarines, select 1-year-old lateral fruiting branches that originate close to main branches. Thin these fruiting branches and head them by one-third if they are longer than about 1 …
Additional anticancer benefit may derive from glucosinolates in kale and cabbage
Daily cycles of light and darkness also promoted maintenance of glucosinolate content during post harvest storage of cabbage . Total glucosinolate content in the cabbage leaf disks stored under light/dark cycles remained stable with no significant fluctuation in levels over the 21 days of analysis . In comparison to total glucosinolate levels in light/dark-stored cabbage, the …
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Dietary fiber is the foundational element to gut microbial growth
However, the production of H2O2 and phenolic compounds, and higher PPO activity in the translucent tissue were detected specifically in the VB tissues, not in other living non-VB cells after chilling . These data indicated that IB did not randomly occur in any living parenchyma cell but is specific to the phloem. Therefore, if the …
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Alternative fumigants being used are 1,3-dichloropropene and chloropicrin
There are striking examples in tomato and other plants where identified genes regulate the development of fruit shape. For example, the OVATE gene in tomato regulates the phenotypic transition from round to pear-shaped fruit . If large-effect mutations underlie differences in strawberry fruit shape, the ordinal classification system proposed here should enable the discovery of …
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Tritium signs are self-luminous and thus do not require an external power supply
New LED exit signs are inexpensive, with prices typically starting at around $20. The U.S. EPA’s ENERGY STAR program website provides a list of suppliers of LED exit signs. Tritium exit signs are an alternative to LED exit signs. The advertised lifetime of these signs is around 10 years and prices typically start at around $150 …
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The analytical approach to pinch analysis has been well documented in the literature
In the absence of a steam trap maintenance program, it is common to find up to 15% to 20% of steam traps malfunctioning in a steam distribution system . Energy savings for a regular system of steam trap checks and follow-up maintenance is conservatively estimated at 10% . One industrial case study indicates a payback …
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Decide if you need to apply by noting the amount of insect and disease damage during the previous growing season. Treat at the onset of dormancy in late November until delayed dormancy, just before buds begin to open in February or early March. The exact timing during the dormant period can vary depending on the disease …
The reaction mediated by phosphofructokinase is one of the key control points of glycolysis in plants
The SlIMP3 has potential as an important candidate gene for molecular breeding with the goal of improving shelf-life of tomato fruit. Interestingly, treating tomato fruits with myoinositol also improved cell wall bio-genesis, delayed softening, and extended shelf-life in fruits. Litchi fruit lost less water after myoinositol treatment . Collectively, all these results demonstrate that myoinositol has …
TA was measured using the tomato juice with the TitraLab TIM850 Titration Manager
The Cnr mutation is also thought to be a gain of function mutation, although the mechanism has yet to be understood . The Cnr mutation results from hypermethylation upstream of the gene near the promoter and has been shown to inhibit the genome-wide demethylation cascade associated with normal tomato ripening . Previously, these TFs were …
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