A great majority of the citrus growers with their orchards located above 1000 meters had inter-cropped citrus with large cardamom . Although, steady progress has been made in terms of infrastructure development to sustain citrus industry in Bhutan, much remains to do in terms of enhancing human capacity of stakeholders with respect to HLB at…

Statistical analysis of quantification data on three or more replicates is advised. Users need to determine how to apply statistical analysis on the data using a separate tool. Benjamini-Hochberg multiple hypothesis test has been used to determine significant regulated PTM peptide groups in 15N metabolic labeled samples . A standardized statistic pipeline for protein quantification is still lacking, particularly…

The ‘processual’ type gardens that I identified as characterizing a number of University Gardens—and to a lesser extent some of the ‘representational’ gardens—fall under this umbrella. Each attempted to build significance around fluid concepts of ecology and process, ideas which are by no means new, but are yet to establish agreed safety lines of communication…

In particular, protein folding is known to occur on the order of microseconds to seconds , while atomistic protein simulation is generally limited to hundreds of nanoseconds due to limited computing resources.The length-scale of atomistic protein simulations is also computationally restricted, allowing only one rCMG2-Fc dimer to be simulated. Despite these limitations, this work shows MD…

PMA efficiently enters cells with compromised but not intact membranes, and, upon photo activation, PMA is irreversibly cross linked to DNA and prevents PCR amplification of target sequences. In this study, we developed a PMA real-time PCR assay to quantify both viable and total E. coli O157:H7 recovered from lettuce plants in the laboratory and field; these…

Although there was no lack of criticism of these measures, no coalition forces achieved the clout necessary to put a brake on fumigation with herbicides, nor to assess the real progress being made in the fight against illegal drugs. According to the CNE , massive spraying of marijuana plantations never received approval. The facts, however, would…

Half of the workers had 1997 incomes of less than $7,500, and half had family incomes of less than $10,000, which means that most individuals and families had incomes below the poverty line—$8,350 for an individual in 1997, and $12,800 for a family of three. About 20 percent of farm workers said that they or…

Perhaps 5 percent of volume is exported, with most going to Mexico . Butter and butter oil lost DEIP funding in 2001 and 2002 due to high domestic prices and a fragile butter market, while similar market conditions eliminated support for whole milk powder those same years . As shown in table 2, DEIP awards…

The primary crops for which sizable production has moved off-shore, in this case to neighboring Mexico, are those requiring bunching at harvest, such as green onions, asparagus and radishes. Still, over the next decade it is likely that many California commodity sectors will face greater import competition and more competition in export markets. While competition in…

The first two problems were fairly easily dealt with. The cooperative movement received federal encouragement in the form of highly favorable tax treatment and considerable exemption from anti-trust prosecution with the passage of the Capper Volstead Act in 1922. Subsequently, the Cooperative Marketing Act of 1926 and the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 further assisted the…