Automated actuation devices like sprinklers, foggers, valve controlled irrigation system, harvesters and others, can be used to control irrigation, fertilization and pests in order to offset the adverse conditions .These included grid soil sampling,yield monitoring, and crop scouting. The strategically positioned sensors collect data in the form of electronic computer databases which gives birth to …
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The transgenic crop research developed over years can be grouped into three generations
Transgenic crops can be generated with the use of recombinant DNA techniques which alter the crop’s genetic makeup by manipulating the genome—either by introduction, deletion, substitution, or silencing of an individual gene or group of genes of interest. The functionality of transgenes has expanded with time. In the beginning,only traits that exhibited complete dominance, free …
It is constituted by demo-genetic tests and a Mismatch distribution analysis
According to Pichon et al., P. xylostella can be regarded as a species highly polymorphic. This has been confirmed by Marthur et al. who indicated a strong genetic diversity in populations of box tree moths from different regions of southern and northern India.Differences in the degree of resistance to insecticides between populations can result from …
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Community-based adaptation has become an important term in the climate change debate
However, the capacity to adapt can influence how climate change affects individuals, communities, regions, countries and the global population.The potential to adjust in order to minimize negative impacts and maximize any benefits from climate change is known as adaptive capacity . As speculated by Lemke dry regions will become even drier while wet ones will …
Mouse monoclonal antibody was produced in tobacco leaf
It was for the first time proved by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases that significant immunogenicity can be induced safely by an edible vaccine. After two years, antigens of Norwalk virus were expressed in potato .The nor walk virus antigens were expressed in transgenic tomatoes as well. Similarly,rabies glycoprotein and hepatitis B surface …
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Shoot growth excluding stem elongation was the greatest under red-blue combination and fluorescent light
Red and red-far red combination resulted in the highest stem elongation but with stem fragility. When Lactucasativa of variety red curly lettuce was grown under different light spectrum, it was found that anthocyanin synthesis, protein content and phenylalanine ammonia-lyase enzyme activity were highest in combined radiation of blue and red-light treatment . In another study, …
The Ghanaian agricultural-dependent economy has thus suffered severe economic consequences
A total of one hundred and nineteen structured questionnaires were developed and thirty percentage of the root crop farmers,were randomly selected in each of the seven sampled community for interviewing.Questionnaires were distributed to educated farmers young and old, or who had educated relatives in their compounds after thorough explanations of the aim and objectives of …
The specific objective of this study is to inform adaptation policy making processes
Among the precipitations, the Northeast precipitation is caused by occluding cyclones above the Sea of Japan, while the East border precipitation is induced by the same cyclone but formed at sea level. The Southwest precipitation is wrought by the frontal effects between southwest moist wind and the northwest dry wind. The West to east precipitation …
The cause of this destruction is attributed to food production
The latest record from government agency shows that there is an estimate of 6.8hectares of forestlands with a net loss of 400,000 hectares every year.Therefore, to maintain sustainable food production while providing housing and industrial uses to lands, House Bill 4750 or the “Urban Agriculture Act of 2011”, and House Bill No. 720 known as …
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A study has shown that reduced leaf chlorophyll content per unit leaf area was associated with high growth performance
Specifically, water stress resulted in the lowest increase in leaf area development , and leaf size tended to decrease with decreasing water supply. A study found that leaf area was strongly negatively correlated with leaf water loss,suggesting that bigger leaves of P. sibirica and U. pumila in 4 and 8 L h−1 irrigation levels may …