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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"ornamental crop"”.
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Sunflower, Helianthus annus L., Cut Flower Variety Trial
… recently, sunflower is gaining acceptance as an ornamental potted plant and as a cut flower in the florist industry. The objectives of the present study were: 1. To evaluate diverse cultivars of sunflower for their performance under field and greenhouse conditions. 2. To explore the potential of …
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Description and control of flowering in California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica)
… for research aimed at introducing it as a new ornamental crop. The major objectives of this study were to document the apical meristem changes of California poppy during the transition to flowering, to determine the minimum number of inductive long-day (LD) cycles required for induction and …
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Evaluation of eastern redcedar as a substrate for container-grown plant production
… creation of artificial substrates used to grow ornamental nursery crops continue to increase in price. Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana L.) is an indigenous plant throughout much of the United States and, in the Great Plains, it has become a pest. Use of wood-based substrates (primarily …
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Soilless Substrate Hydrology and Subsequent Impacts on Plant-Water Relations of Containerized Crops
… in agricultural consumption. Specialty crop producers, especially ornamental crop producers, must continually improve production sustainability, with regards to water resource management, in order to continue to stay economically viable. Soilless substrates were initially developed to …
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Genomic Reconstruction of the Domestication History of Sinningia speciosa (Lodd.) Hiern, and the Development of a Novel Genotyping Approach
Most staple food crops were domesticated thousands of years ago through independent processes across different regions of the world. Studies of the history of such crops have been essential to our understanding of plant domestication as a process that started with the collection of wild material …
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Dissecting key biomass traits through traditional QTL mapping, exploring novel functional genomics approaches, and investigating self-incompatibility in Miscanthus
… For this reason, dedicated lignocellulosic crops and the technology to efficiently produce ethanol from lignocellulosic feedstocks have moved into focus. Miscanthus, a genus of perennial grasses that can produce high yields in temperate environments, has been identified as a potential …
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Diversità delle specie di Botryosphaeriaceae sulle piante mediterranee e tropicali
… una seria minaccia per gli ecosistemi agricoli, ornamentali e forestali. Ci sono numerose segnalazioni di Botryosphaeriaceae che colpiscono le colture agricole in Sicilia (Italia). Colture innovative e ornamentali, emergenti e ampiamente diffuse nell’isola, sono ancora poco indagate e soggette ad …