Woven into the panorama of colors and the smell of wet soil is the social contrast shaped by the division between private property and communal lands, or ejidos, which often depend on the commercialization routes, and infrastructure owned by the larger estates. Situated within the landscape is the human life of the plantation: the often…

The white halo fungus thus acts as a “carnivore” consuming both rust fungus and scale insects. The parasitoids of the scale insects also act as “carnivores,” competing with the white halo fungus for the scale resources. The ant inserts an interaction completely independent of energy transfer but behaviorally altering the trait of parasitism. The food…

Today, broccoli, strawberries, and lettuce have replaced them. Finally, while 61,000 acres of the county’s farmland devoted to field crops in 1960 has diminished to 20,000, fruit and vegetable acreage expanded from 40,000 to nearly 90,000 acres. Although an array of 75 different commodities occupy the valley’s fruit and vegetable acreage, only a handful are…

According to Childe, agriculture developed rapidly, hence the term Neolithic Revolution, and thus was synchronous with the onset of dry conditions that climate records were suggesting in the Near East at the end of the Pleistocene. To survive, humans and potential domesticates concentrated together in well-watered locations like oases and river valleys, where their close…

We chose the best model as described above. To determine if the addition of nectar resources, nest entrance size and VCI influence ant parasitism, we used the proportion of parasitized pupaenand chose only nests from Solenopsis picea for the analysis, as this was the only parasitized species. In this case, generalized linear models were performed. We…

It is critical for a germplasm repository to provide reliable information on the germplasm it holds and distributes through on-site evaluation. Characterization based on morphological criteria is often variable across years and locations due to the plasticity and susceptibility of these traits to genotype-environmental interactions. Molecular markers offer a stable and reliable alternative for genetic…

The differences among treatments for berry mass observed post-veraison were non-significant by mid-ripening and remained as such until harvest. TSS, pH and TA were also monitored throughout the growing season in both years. Overhead shade films did not affect TSS in must at any sampling point throughout the 2020 season . TA was only significantly…

Weight loss studies further showed that a decrease in firmicutes and an increase of bacteroides were correlated with percent body weight loss, but not caloric intake. Even though most studies showed a shift toward firmicutes in obese and diabetic individuals, others have shown opposite results: a shift toward bacteroidetes or no difference between these two…

Although currently several agronomic approaches of source-limitation have been set up to delay sugar accumulation in ripening grapes in the field , stomatal manipulation may be a favorable genetic strategy for the future, that deserves to be further explored also under combined environmental stress and in field trials. In our study, we further applied a water…

Strawberries can only be stored for up to 7 days under optimum conditions, and that shelf life also depends on how ripe the fruit was when purchased or picked.Like any other fresh fruit or vegetable, strawberries can be contaminated with bacteria from soil, water, and animal sources. Contamination from human sources may occur during or…