Abstract Higher levels of pesticide applications are used when growing cut flowers compared to other crops such as tomatoes, lettuce, and rice, much the floriculture industry production occurs in developing countries where less environmental regulations may be place those United States. Therefore, special consideration should given flower disposal from floral shops due potential excessive leach...

The experiment on “Performance of dahlia (Dahlia variabilis L.) genotypes for floral and yield attributes” was carried out at the Department Floriculture Landscape Architecture, College Horticulture, Sirsi, University Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Karnataka with a view to find best characters. Among 35 HUBD-26 recorded minimum days flowering (31.40 days), maximum flower per plant (559.03 g)...

The current study applied a fault tree analysis to represent the causal relationships among events and causes that contributed to fatal falls in the construction industry. Four hundred and eleven work-related fatalities in the Taiwanese construction industry were analyzed in terms of age, gender, experience, falling site, falling height, company size, and the causes for each fatality. Given tha...

Abstract: The experiences of industrial clusters around the world indicate that there is no fixed and standard pattern of formation and development of industry cluster. All localities should actively explore an industry cluster mode with its local characteristics to further enhance the competitiveness. There has been wide concern about China's textile industry cluster when it appears. The resea...

The evolutionary history of Phytophthora cryptogea and P. drechsleri isolates previously collected from floriculture crops in North Carolina commercial greenhouses was explored with coalescent- and parsimony-based analyses. Initially, 68 isolates representing 13 location-host groups were sequenced at multiple loci. Sequences of all isolates within a group were identical. A subset of isolates we...

Effectiveness of a hot water drench for the control of Aphelenchoides fragariae infesting hosta (Hosta sp.) and ferns (Matteuccia pensylvanica) was studied. Drenching with hot water at 70 degrees C and 90 degrees C in October reduced (P < 0.05) A. fragariae in the soil but not in the leaves relative to the control (25 degrees C) 300 days after treatment (DAT). Plants drenched with 90 degrees C ...