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quarterly for canopy appearance, leaf color, fruit crop, and weed cover. Each orchard received a separate visual rating for each category on a 1 to 5 scale. A rating of 1 indicates a less dense canopy compared with visual inspection of orchards in the area

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automatic settings followed by visual inspection and manual adjustment of each peak to ensure accurate scoring. Similarity matrices were constructed using the SIMQUAL function in NTSYSpc 2.21 software (Exeter Software, Setauket, NY) ( Rohlf, 2005

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with visual root or stem defects are unacceptable to the buyers and are usually destroyed. As other options become more expensive or difficult to use, it is likely that herbicides will become an even more important part of integrated pest management in

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had a value of 21.39 and male parent A-2659 had a value of 15.69. Visual inspection supported the SigmaScan analysis. The female parent A-2315 ( Figs. 4 and 5 ) is very elongated and had the highest axis ratio at 2.75, the second highest

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, including variography and visual inspection of maps of the dry weight of corms grown under both flooded and upland conditions, and found no evidence of spatial autocorrelation. Finally, we examined the effect of plot size on the power of differentiating

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(F 1 ) per female. We used branch section as the unit of replication. Analytical assumptions (normality of errors, homoscedasticity of variances) were assessed by visual inspection of residual plots. For the second field trial, we also used ANOVA to

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The cultivated strawberry is a popular fruit worldwide with desirable flavor, texture, and visual appeal. In the United States, the value of total strawberry production was $2.2 billion in 2010 [ U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 2011

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appear during prolonged chilling or during warming after chilling ( Saltveit and Morris, 1990 ). The severity of CI can be quantified by visual inspection of quality parameters, by measuring the rate of ion leakage from excised tissue into an isotonic

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close genetic similarities with F. ovina L. (sheep fescue) ( Jones et al., 2008 ). In 2009, a visual inspection of 270 FEID 9025897 cloned plants examined under replication in a Logan UT field nursery showed that the vast majority (>98%) were sterile

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. This melon, upon being cut open, had evidence that it was bruised before treatment, leading to its poor quality. After the 14-d storage period, when the remaining melons were cut open for observation, visual inspection suggested a minimum of “good

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