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cluster 3 purchased locally sourced plants the most, with 53% of participants spending 26% to 75% on locally sourced plants. Independent, free-standing garden centers and home improvement stores were mainly frequented by our participants, comprising 49% of
considerations when selecting male parents ( Ssebuliba et al. 2008 ) and are indispensable in the efficient genetic improvement of bananas ( Fortescue and Turner 2005 ). Wild diploid bananas such as ‘Calcutta 4’ [International Musa Germplasm Transit Center (ITC
1920, and several others from these initial OP seeds followed over the next 3 decades ( Luby, 1991 ). Controlled crosses were initiated by 1916 ( Horticultural Research Center, 1922 ). To date, 28 cultivars have been introduced by the program ( Table 1
Chakraborty 2009 ). These and similar findings are cause for environmental justice and equity concerns, and also provide pathways to improvement ( Foster et al. 2024 ). Between 1200 and 1500 genera constitute the array of woody landscape plants in the United
partner universities. In addition to long-term graduate studies, faculty may benefit from short to medium-term exchange programs in the United States or even at regional universities and centers designed to provide high impact experiences focused on
). Horticultural therapy is used in different health care and hospital settings in the world, such as nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, psychiatric hospitals, and prisons. It has been shown to have positive effects on mental disorders [e.g., schizophrenia
cilantro is the microbial load. Between 2000 and 2020, at least 43 cilantro-associated outbreaks were reported to the Centers for Disease Control’s National Outbreak Reporting System; these outbreaks caused 970 illnesses, 75 hospitalizations, and no deaths
improvements in the crop yield or rate of turf establishment compared with N fertilizer with low amounts of P, fertilizer with no P, and, occasionally, fertilizer with no N and no P ( Reicher et al., 2000 ; Roth et al., 2006 ; Vetsch and Randall, 2000
2007, the State of Connecticut passed a law prohibiting the use of lawn care pesticides at schools and daycare centers, except with an emergency exemption ( Connecticut General Assembly, 2009 ). In 2008, the Canadian Province of Ontario passed
pesticides to the home and garden market sector with herbicides being the most purchased pesticide ( EPA, 2011 ). Pesticides for nonstructural pests have been applied on residential landscapes of ≈50% of all U.S. households and the annual expenditure for