production of ornamental plants. Plants are grown in containers primarily for production efficiency and for ease of shipping to retailers. Container substrates need to be well drained for good root growth and disease management, but in comparison with soil
dry weight, flower and bud number (per plant), and flower diameter of Petunia and Impatiens . z Table 2. Shoot and flower production efficiency based on total and proportional volumes of water applied and flower number per unit of
surface waters with agrichemicals ( Bilderback et al., 2013 ). The purpose of implementing BMPs is to address water quality or water-management issues from specific sites or problems, increase plant production efficiency, and promote environmental
propagation to help maximize production efficiency of high-value young plants that have high crop loss rates, are of poor quality when produced with standard practices, or experience slow rooting, has the potential to benefit the entire specialty crop industry
production efficiency in apple orchard systems J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 116 188 194 Robinson, T.L. Lakso, A.N. Ren, Z. 1991 Modifying apple tree canopies for improved production efficiency HortScience 26
The implementation of dwarfing apple rootstocks in apple orchards worldwide has resulted in increased production efficiency, reduction in input costs and the production of higher quality apples ( Robinson et al., 1991 , 1997 ; Sansavini et al
adventitious rooting is important in identifying practical methods to optimize plant stand and production efficiency. The role of plant hormones in adventitious rooting has been a source of confusion not only in sweetpotatoes but in other plant species as well
material, greater amounts of one or more environmental parameters may be used to increase productivity, but the efficiency of energy use may not be optimized appropriately for the particular species. Further research is needed to understand how production
and cooperatively released for trial by the USDA-ARS and the University of Florida as ‘Sharpe’ ( Beckman et al., 2008 ). Unfortunately, ongoing testing subsequently demonstrated that ‘Sharpe’ was unable to match the production efficiency and fruit size
design and cane training protocol with the potential to increase production efficiency and prevent winter injury by laying the plants horizontal to the ground so that they can be covered during cold periods ( Takeda et al., 2003a , 2008 ). This system