The trial run in Watsonville, California, showed a numerical reduction of eggs when the food grade gum was applied as standalone and in combination with pesticide. As discussed previously, multiple factors may have impacted the trial. Meta-analysis to determine differences between food-grade gum and untreated control and mean larvae resulted in a highly significant difference. Despite…

Power differentials affecting workers who are undocumented or lack formal authorization to work in the U.S. can create even further structural vulnerability. Agricultural health and safety professionals and other stakeholders should engage in adapting and adopting structural competency curricula in order to increase awareness of impact of structures as well as to become better positioned…

Ideally, each benchmark evaluation would involve the sensor undergoing an identical sequence of rotations while running the estimation filter. One method to accomplish this is to mount three sensors on a platform and direct the signals to the hardware systems under evaluation. This is cumbersome, however, and requires more components than were available. Instead we…

The green berry dark respiration rate was similar, though slightly higher than that observed for Nodularia aggregates of similar diameter; however, the ratio of dark respiration to gross photosynthesis of 0.38 was identical to that observed for 7 mm3 aggregates found late in the bloom . In large Nodularia aggregates, dark anoxia is associated with active dissimilatory…

Numerous epidemiological studies report that individuals with a low MPOD level are at an increased risk of AMD. Dietary L and Z are found in certain fruits and vegetables with red, yellow, or orange color, egg yolk, and in some green leafy vegetables. The dietary intake of Z is lower than L in all age…

For complex canopies like grapevines, the results highlighted the need to use a 3D radiation model because these models can represent the vertical and horizontal variability in the canopy and their effect on light interception accurately. Chapter 3 developed and validated a three-dimensional model for grape berry temperature to understand whether the effect of excess sunlight…

For practical purposes, relatively simple models are frequently used to estimate light interception in plant canopies. For example, crop models have become important tools for studying agricultural systems, yet they commonly utilize relatively simple models for light interception given the frequent lack of detailed architectural inputs. The most commonly used approach for estimating light interception…

Reported protocol compliance was greater than 96% for both groups, and no adverse symptoms were noted other than minor intestinal gas from one participant in the goji berry group. Table 1 presents the reported average intake of select nutrients in the habitual diet that may have affected eye health over the study period. No significant…

How those reductions are allocated among Imperial Valley agriculture—the single largest user of Colorado River water— and the two largest southern California wholesale water agencies—Metropolitan Water District of Southern California , supplying 19 million people, and the San Diego County Water Authority , supplying 3.3 million people, will create challenges. While the reductions will create…

Similar results have been found in allotetraploid Brassica juncea, in which many dominant homoeologs have been found to be related to glucosinolate biosynthesis and to show signs of positive selection.We present what is, to our knowledge, the first chromosome-scale genome assembly for an octoploid strawberry—the highest-level polyploid genome of this quality assembled to date. Analysis…