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Environmental Horticulture-undergraduate student enrollment at the University of Florida (UF) Gainesville campus decreased from 88 students in 1980/81 to 34 students in 1989/90. In 1983/84 a resident instruction program in Environmental Horticulture for placebound students was initiated by UF at the Ft. Lauderdale Research and Education Center. Enrollment rapidly increased from 6 students in 1984 to 67 students in 1989, with an average student credit load of 3.5 credits per semester. In 1990/91 increased student recruiting efforts were made with a common undergraduate handbook, recruiting brochure, and guides for academic program specializations developed to serve both locations. These efforts and others have increased enrollment at both sites. Currently there are 73 students in the Environmental Horticulture program at Gainesville and 87 students at Ft. Lauderdale. Students may begin their academic program at one location and transfer to the other site to complete their undergraduate requirements for the Bachelor of Science degree. A Bachelor of Science program in Environmental Horticulture will be initiated in the fall of 1994 in Milton, Florida, a small community in northwest Florida.
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Three varieties, ‘Red Top’, ‘Fireball’ and ‘Valiant,’ and their hybrids were grown in a split-plot design of mixed and pure populations at high and low population densities. The frequencies with which varieties or hybrids were selected for earliness and fruit size within high density (1 ft in-row spacing) and low density (3 ft in-row spacing) plots when genotypes were mixed did not differ significantly. Selections for concentrated ripening within the 2 densities were significantly different. The mean response of hybrids to density change was not significant. The mean response of inbreds to density change was significantly different for earliness and fruit size. Fruit size of the inbreds was also affected by competition when grown in mixed stands.
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Total yield of scab resistant cucumber cultivars was unaffected by artificial inoculation with Cladosporium cucumerinum Ell. & Arth. and that of susceptible cultivars was reduced up to 57%. As much as 97% of the susceptible cultivar’s yield showed scab infection.
Cucumis sativus L. (cvs. Poinsett and Ashley) plants were grown from seed in a growth chamber at a +10C (28/18) or a -10C (18/28) difference (DIF) between day temperature (DT) and night temperature (NT) on a 12-hour photoperiod for 24 days prior to ozone (O3) fumigation (3 hours at 0.5 umol·mol-1). Negative DIF, compared to +DIF, reduced plant height, node count, fresh weight, dry weight, and leaf area in both cultivars. Photosynthetic rate (Pn), chlorophyll concentration, and variable chlorophyll fluorescence (Fv) were lower and O3 injury and polyamine concentrations were higher at -DIF than at +DIF. Ozone fumigation generally increased leaf concentration of polyamines and reduced Pn, stomatal conductance, and chlorophyll fluorescence. `Poinsett' generally had a higher specific leaf mass and higher concentrations of chlorophyll a and polyamines than did `Ashley', but there was no cultivar difference in O3 injury, growth response, Pn, or stomatal conductance.