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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"woody ornamentals"”.
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Foliar response of woody ornamentals to sprinkler irrigation with reuse water
This experiment examined foliar damage associated with sprinkle irrigation of reuse water. Reuse water, municipal water and a synthesized saline water were applied via sprinkler irrigation to 20 ornamental tree species. A visual damage index was created based on canopy and leaf level …
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Integrative Genomic Approaches for Plant Trait Discovery, Fungal Pathogen Identification and Taxonomy
… vascular streak dieback, an emerging disease of woody ornamentals in the U.S., in contexts where culturing is infeasible. Sequencing of 106 samples from 34 host species across seven states identified Ceratobasidium sp. as the only pathogen consistently detected across samples and made it possible …
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Influence of Lime and Micronutrient Amendments on Growth of Containerized Landscape Trees Grown in Pine Bark
Growing landscape trees in containers is a common practice in the nursery industry. In the southeastern United States, pine bark is often used as a container substrate, and two common amendments to pine bark are lime and micronutrients. In this study, three experiments were conducted to determine …
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Overcoming Summer Dormancy of Boxwood
The objective of this work was to determine if summer dormancy of boxwood could be removed either through nutritional or hormonal means. Buxus sempervirens L. "Suffruticosa", B. sempervirens "Vardar Valley", and B sinica var. insularis (Nakai) "Justin Brouwers" were used for these studies. In the …