interest in applying CEA practices to urban agriculture (UA), including small- (e.g., in-home production or indoor gardens), medium- (e.g., community gardens), or large-scale commercial operations [e.g., rooftop greenhouses or warehouse-based indoor “plant
link VPD to needle abscission. Materials and Methods Sample collection. A total of 48 branches were collected from a 14-year-old (at the time of experiment) balsam fir orchard at the Tree Breeding Center, Department of Natural Resources, Debert, Nova
adjacent blocks. Thus, the two 693-ft 2 growing areas in these systems each yield total growing areas of 1386 ft 2 . Determination of capital requirements and fixed costs. Capital inputs (including costs of land, improvements, buildings, and equipment) for
. This database will be a tool for the authentic identification of muscadine cultivars, thus contributing to improvements in muscadine germplasm management. The secondary objective was to understand genetic diversity in muscadine germplasm. Materials and
Home, OR, USA), ‘Azoychka’ (Adaptive Seeds), ‘Baylor Paste’ (Adaptive Seeds), ‘Cosmonaut Volkov’ (High Mowing Organic Seeds, Wolcott, VT, USA), and ‘Marmande’ (Adaptive Seeds). Each replication was grown at a different farm. In 2022, five replications
, and this may lead to a reduction in the apparent quality ( Macheix et al., 1990 ). When a fruit is cut, either for home consumption or for industrial processing, the destruction of fruit cellular compartmentation allows the orthodiphenolic substrates
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
because the home presentation represents the homeowners’ largest financial assets ( Robbins et al. 2001 ). As such, there is a great incentive to invest time and money into landscape upkeep ( Robbins et al. 2001 ). In fact, Blaine et al. (2012) found
and Southeast Asia, including China, comprise the primary and secondary centers of diversity, respectively, of cucumber. India and central and southwest Asia comprise the primary center of diversity for melon with China as a secondary center of
The world’s fruit industry is based on distinct clones that have uniquely desirable horticultural characteristics. The genetic improvement of fruits known as fruit breeding in its broadest sense has an ancient tradition that dates back to the