Eggplant (Solanum melongena) is amenable to grafting and this technique can be exploited to improve production of this vegetable crop. Here, we study the performance of the ‘Cristal F1’ eggplant cultivar grafted onto a total of 17 rootstocks, including five families, each of which is made by two parents and their hybrid, as well a commercial eggplant rootstock and a self-grafted control. Three ...

Let S-Set be the category of $S$-sets, sets together with the actions of a semigroup $S$ on them. And, let S-Pos be the category of $S$-posets, posets together with the actions compatible with the orders on them. In this paper we show that the category S-Pos is a radical extension of S-Set; that is there is a radical on the category S-Pos, the order desolator radical, whose torsion-free class i...

To study impacts of sudden oak death (SOD), a lethal bark canker disease caused by Phytophthora ramorum, we established permanent plots in Sonoma County forest types at risk of SOD. Baseline stand and tree health data were collected in 2001 and the plots were reassessed in 2004. The 250 plots (0.02 ha each) were located at 11 study locations in stands containing Quercus agrifolia, Q. kelloggii,...