Category: Commercial Grow

To date, B. cinerea biocontrol products are mostly Bacillus subtilis-based, but their use in commercial strawberry production is limited because of their insufficient applicability in the field or supply chain . Nevertheless, there is social and scientific interest in using biocontrol against B. cinerea as an alternative to chemical pesticides. Isolates of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Epicoccum…

Although we have not characterized the type of inoculum that is spreading from source to target fruit, our observations that source fruits or tissue sections without visible mycelium or sporulation were more effective in contact inoculation, we hypothesize that the disease is spread by fungal hyphae that are moving from infected tissues to healthy ones…

However, given that height of reproductive adults varies substantially more among than within species, it need not follow that the more limited inter individual variation in plant height will be a major driver of inter individual variation in seed dispersal distances. Nonetheless, limited empirical evidence suggests that inter individual height variation might be at least a minor driver…

The two regions also overlapped with the DNA family transposable element At2TE50665, suggesting that these may represent coding sequences of the transposon, rather than AtCLV3 regulators. When examined with the 5bp sliding window, the two conserved blocks were found to be surrounded on both sides by a strikingly periodic arrangement of three cis-motifs, spaced 11bp…

Recognition of this pattern of senescence thus suggests that many trees do not produce one large inflorescence, but instead produce many smaller ones.Another phenomenon that has frequently been correlated with alternate bearing is the abscission of immature fruit. Descriptively called a “fruit drop”, the abscission of immature fruit often appears to occur in three distinct…

The total soluble solids of the transgenic fruit was consistently lower than non-transgenic samples throughout cold storage, as well as after rewarming . Respiration rates were significantly higher in Sh-13 compared to non-transgenic fruit throughout cold storage, except for day 4 . However, after rewarming all three genotypes were the same. Interestingly, CO2 emission in Sh-13…

Pulsed electric field is also another extraction technique that can be applied at room temperature conditions and performed in a matter of seconds requiring low energy to increase cell membrane breakdown in mass transfer which were applied previously in several fruits such as strawberry and grapes.,e analysis of phenolic acids and flavonoids by liquid and/or gas…

These deficiencies arise due to a wide range of causes including biological factors such as decreased appetite, decreased smell, and decreased taste and behavioral factors such as difficulty cooking, difficulty obtaining ingredients, and difficulty following dietary regimens. There is a general recommendation that anyone following a plant-based diet should supplement vitamin B12 in order to…

The major alternatives to methyl bromide such as 1,3-D and chloropicrin are heavily regulated due to the potential for adverse health effects to workers and nearby populations, which has complicated the transition away from methyl bromide. In California, 1,3-D use per 36-square-mile township is limited to 90,250 pounds, called a township cap, which severely limits…

Heat and hold techniques. In traditional blanching, products are continuously subjected to the heating medium until a specified product core temperature is reached. In contrast, blanchers using the heat and hold technique expose products to just the minimum amount of steam required for blanching, via the use of a heating section and a holding section. In…