In California, they are planted and harvested continuously throughout the year, which results in relatively smooth yield fluctuations on an annual basis. Crop-specific deviations are also presented in Table D1 . Except for tropical and V5 crops , the deviations tended to be around the mean. We also investigated the deviation at the regional level.…

Strawberries are the undisputed leader in the berry sector and in 2014 represented 58% and 94% of the value of all berry production in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, respectively , and 50% and 93% of all berry acreage . Table 2 documents the remarkable expansion of the strawberry industry over time in both counties…

You know, the vegetables are great up there, everything is so beautiful. And you come down, I think we get ours last off the truck” .A Latina wearing denim overalls raises her fist. In the other hand she grips a trowel. Flanking her left, an African American woman triumphantly holds up two ears of corn…

Yet rarely have investigators tied performance or mortality of individuals within a species population to subtle differences in aspect that occur within a single population . Here we found that aspect was the strongest predictor of dieback over time, with plants in SW aspects showing greater dieback than plants on more north-facing aspects. This influence…

Large-scale, long-term monitoring using these tools would allow researchers to retrieve data in areas that have previously been inaccessible, while also gaining a larger scale understanding of drought impacts. They ultimately will enable future studies to reveal more nuanced patterns across the landscape and between years of varying climatic conditions. Plant pest and disease outbreaks…

Feral pigs are also attracted to agricultural areas for food, water and mates, which facilitates direct or indirect pathogen transmission. States at greatest risk for increased contact between feral and domestic pigs and consequential potential disease transmission, are those regions containing large populations of feral pigs living near outdoor-raised domestic pigs reared with low levels…

The brush is usually good for two to three years. One- and two-inch chicken wire will also suffice. Unlike beans, peas aren’t a heavy plant or fruit, thus they don’t need as strong a fence. In fact, garden twine run vertically or woven between horizontal 2x4s makes a biodegradable/compostable trellis. String on a wooden A-frame…

ERF1 and ERF2 are at the beginning of the ethylene signaling pathway and are direct targets of EIN3. Other ERF transcription factors identified as hubs in the ethylene signaling pathway in Arabidopsis leaves were also differentially expressed in a similar manner as ERF1 and ERF2 between the two locations .The common gene set for both locations represented approximately 25%…

The magnetic field is a signed quantity, so you need to have a pretty strong model and a clear picture of your starting location to successfully use it to navigate. Thermal gradients can be handled with simple gradient ascent; this will almost always lead you to the region of your circuit with the greatest resistance,…

Because their distribution throughout the host crystal is not ordered, dopants can reduce the effective band gap through the mechanism illustrated in Fig. 3.14. It turns out this concern about magnetically doped topological insulators has been born our in practice; the systems have been improved since their original discovery, but in all known samples the…