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White or coextruded white-on-black mulches can slightly lower surface soil temperatures by about 1ºC at 2 cm depth or 0.4ºC at 10 cm relative to bare soil because they reflect most incoming radiation . These mulches are used when lower soil temperatures may be desirable for planting vegetables in particular summer production windows. Clear mulches effectively …
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Another study giving older adults two egg yolks/day for 5 weeks, followed by four egg yolks/day for 5 weeks, reported increases in MPOD, but only among those with low baseline MPOD value. The addition of either spinach or corn , or the combination, for 14 months significantly increased the MPOD among the majority of healthy individuals. …
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Raspberries account for the majority of the production volume and the total value of this category. This California export category was valued at $157 million, and accounted for approximately 85% of total US fresh and processed raspberry, blackberry, mulberry, and loganberry exports. 84% of these exports are received by Canada, 6% by Japan, and 5% …
Cases with relatively high ground cover fractions and uniformly arranged plants showed good agreement between the 1D and 3D models regardless of whether the assumption of leaf isotropy was made. As the canopies became more heterogeneous in space, agreement between the models generally declined. Although Potato-Uniform and Potato-Row had identical leaf area indices and leaf …
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We created a multiplexed probe-based quantitative PCR assay able to identify whether a sample contains T. absoluta, K. lycopersicella, or P. operculella DNA based on single nucleotide polymorphisms between species. In addition, we created RPA-Cas12a assays to detect the presence of T. absoluta DNA, using either a fluorescent reader or a simple UV illuminator paired with a cell …
Additionally, the induction of defense genes in the RR core response could be ineffective if their expression levels were too weak compared with those seen in resistant MG fruit. We evaluated the levels of gene expression in inoculated RR fruit via a differential expression comparison to inoculated MG fruit. Of all the RR core defense genes identified …
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Ethylene increases the susceptibility of tomato to B. cinerea by inducing ripening; however, its functions during strawberry infections are yet to be fully characterized. ABA, IAA and ethylene accumulation are altered by polyamine levels, which are positively correlated with fruit susceptibility to B. cinerea during strawberry ripening . Other hormones, such as brassinosteroids and jasmonic acid are …
Source fruits were then placed on top of the target fruits so that the inoculated stem end region would be in contact with the equatorial region of the target. Using the whole fruits was the most effective way to contact-inoculate oranges. Source fruits with visible mycelium and with visibly macerated tissue radially spread from the initial …
A strong positive relationship between crop size and the number of seeds dispersed and in the number of seeds being dispersed long distance is expected in abiotic dispersal modes such as anemochory and hydrochory and in the biotic dispersal mode epizoochory . However, the expectation is less clear with endozoochory, synzoochoryand myrmecochory, where animal dispersers make …
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The enlarged biding sites were then mapped to the CLV3 genomic sequence, tolerating up to 2 mis-matches in the flanking regions. In order to account for the presence of transcription factors whose cis-motifs are not currently known, MEME analysis were employed to identify motifs shared between genes that are co-expressed with CLV3.Overall, 231 potential cis-motifs …
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