Cleaning an NFT (Nutrient Film Technique) system is essential to maintain optimal plant health, prevent clogs, and ensure the efficient flow of nutrient solution. Here’s a general guide on how to clean an NFT system: Remember, cleaning frequency may vary depending on the specific conditions and plant growth cycle. Regular maintenance and monitoring will help…

As a response to infection by CLas, citrus may increase the production of its AHL mimic, which would bind to LuxR and possibly limit CLas bacterial growth by triggering cell aggregation and consequently limit bacterial movement in planta. The insect extract has a structurally related AHL, which may be produced by endosymbiontic bacteria and bind…

The water demand for each individual leaf is a function of light exposure, and all the individual leaf demands are summed to determine the whole-canopy water demand. The ability of the root system to provide water is determined by root system structural biomass, the soil volume available to the tree, a user-defined soil moisture release curve,…

Increased concentrations of the most abundant phenolics such as chichoric acid, quercetin derivatives Q-3MG and Q-3G, CQA, CTA, DCQA, L-7G and K-3MG were observed in the HAO lines, though out of these metabolites only CQA and K-3MG were found to be significantly positively correlated with AO potential. The lack of significant correlation between AO potential…

Figure 7 summarizes the postulated events leading to the inhibition of tomato pedicel abscission in the THyPRP-silenced plants. This sequence of events is based on regulatory genes whose expression was altered in the FAZ of the silenced plants at zero time and early after flower removal, compared to their expression in the WT FAZ. The role of…

GP was applied to estimate the GEBVs of common bean accessions for resistance to two SCN HG types, and prediction accuracies were evaluated using cross-validation. Our study represents the first GWAS and GP for SCN resistance in common bean.In the phenotyping experiments for SCN resistance using the female index , each accession was replicated multiple times…

Certainly tobacco has played a major role in the economic development of Zimbabwe so far and, despite the health risks for tobacco consumers, it would be irresponsible to suggest that Zimbabwe should curtail tobacco and not continue to make use of this potential. More than 80% of all rose exports, for example, are grown on…

An important advantage of this system and one reason many farmers like to grow tobacco is that they are paid in foreign exchange on the day the crop is sold. This money can be held in a foreign currency account for up to 60 days and is often used to procure essential imports needed to…

Urban hardscape as it currently exists and as it is expanded through new development and perpetuated through maintenance, rehabilitation and reconstruction requires mining and importation into the urban area of large quantities of materials and exportation of demolition waste out of the urban area. Standards that require extensive vehicle parking for new housing and other…

An ecosystem services perspective directly links ecosystem structures and functions to human well-being , providing a tangible rationale for more holistic environmental management and protection . Ecosystem services can be difficult to quantify, especially in marine environments where interactions and boundaries can be dynamic and loosely-coupled . However, technological developments have greatly aided deep-sea scientific…