, 1998 ). Brix. Two leaves were selected from each head, one leaf from the center of the head and one from the outside. Juice was squeezed by hand into a plastic cup, mixed, and measured by a refractometer in sunlight (Pocket Refractometer PAL-1; ATAGO
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
comparisons of muskmelon cultivars were carried out in 2015 and 2016 at three locations: Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center (SWPAC) near Vincennes, IN; Meigs Farm at Throckmorton Purdue Agricultural Center (TPAC) near Lafayette, IN; and Pinney Purdue
Certified Nursery Professional Program The purpose of the ICNP program is 3-fold: to improve the skill and knowledge of green industry employees; to have this improvement and professional qualification recognized in the eyes of the public, as well as within
Real, in the center of Spain. This region is home of the so-called Almagro (in reference to the city of Almagro, capital of the region of Campo de Calatrava) pickling eggplant, which is the only eggplant produce officially recognized in Europe with a
annually every Thursday in October at the North Willamette Research and Extension Center. During Fall 2014, three traditional face-to-face workshops were offered in Spanish to support agriculture workers interested in obtaining the Oregon private pesticide
horticultural traits desired by growers, such as earliness and high marketable yield, which results from high fruit number and high fruit weight, and improvement of traits desired by consumers, such as fruit color, shape, size, and skin pattern, which became
home by her guardian during the experiment. Thus, the final number of patients in the control group was 29. The inclusion criteria were being female, having schizophrenia/meeting International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision diagnostic
the last 12 months for all surveys combined. Of our sample, 59.1% had made any horticultural product or plant purchase from a home improvement or hardware store, 44.7% from an independent, free-standing garden center, 30.5% from a mass
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