. Villalon, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, for supplying some of the pepper cultivars used in this study. The cost of publishing this paper was defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. Under postal regulations, this paper therefore must be
( American Society of Landscape Architects, 2017 ; Brzuszeki and Harkess, 2009 ). This, in turn, has led to questions regarding what is “native” and what is not, what are appropriate constraints from plant provenance, and, most often, are cultivars of native
erythrocytes and are a source of antioxidants ( Cao et al., 2011 ). The New Mexico State University (NMSU) Sustainable Agriculture Science Center at Alcalde has imported and collected more than 50 jujube cultivars ( Yao, 2013 , 2016 ; Yao et al., 2015 ), and
). However, cold hardiness is a characteristic that is not as easily tested as productivity; therefore, some released cultivars have unknown cold hardiness, posing a risk for cold-climate growers. Different kinds of artificial freezing test methods have been
every year. However, continuously growing this single crop is detrimental to soil health and increases disease and pest problems. Therefore, there is an increasing need to identify alternative crops and provide cultivar recommendations for profitable
(pollenizers) are required ( Boyhan et al., 2000 ; Maynard, 1992 ; Maynard and Elmstrom, 1992 ). Growers interplant the triploid cultivars and diploid pollenizers in the production field and are then dependent on the pollenizers producing staminate flowers on
Codiaeum variegatum (L.) Blume, commonly known as crotons, are small evergreen trees and shrubs that are popular as ornamental plants because of their attractive foliage. Currently, more than 300 croton cultivars are reported in the world ( Brown
structure by decreasing native species abundance, diversity ( Munger, 2003 ), and richness ( Martin, 1999 ; Webb et al., 2001 ; Wyckoff and Webb, 1996 ). It is logical to assume that less invasive or noninvasive cultivars of the invasive species may exist
the Univ. of California-Riverside for providing Philodendron cultivars used in this study; Russell D. Caldwell for collecting the plant samples in Florida, and Kelly Everitt for critical reading of this manuscript. This research was supported in part
, that have been available for commercial production since 2011 ( Thomas et al., 2015a ). The cultivar York is also an American elderberry that was released by the New York Agricultural Experiment Station in 1964 ( Greene et al., 1997 ). More recently