Kent J. Bradford Department of Vegetable Crops, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, CA 956168631, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] Knowledge and prediction of seasonal weed seedling emergence patterns is useful in weed management programs. Seed dormancy is a major factor influencing the timing of seedling emergence, and once dormancy is broken, environmental conditions det...

The usage of qualified seed is one practices in intensification strategy to minimize the rice yield gap. Unfortunately, its availability North Sumatera Province difficult find. One measures solve scarcity by maintaining existence Seed Resources Management Unit (SRMU) and Grower. This study has specific objectives, inform total potential production, kind varieties distribution certified from SRM...

State-of-the-art supply chain management systems can be obtained from the supply chain operations referencemodel for business applications, advancement and practices. Problematic management processes in standard process reference model form improves competitive advantage, communication, dimensions, management, control and alter to a specific purpose among the supply chain management processes. ...

Preplant soil fumigation has been the standard treatment for the control of perennial crop replant diseases, including apple replant disease (8,10). Although significant effort has been invested in the development of alternatives to soil fumigation for control of replant diseases (5,21– 23,26–28,30,31), there continues to be a lack of effective and economically feasible nonfumigant control stra...

The alfalfa leafcutting bee (ALCB), Megachile rotundata F. (Megachildae), was accidentally introduced into the United States by the 1940s. Nest management of this Eurasian nonsocial pollinator transformed the alfalfa seed industry in North America, tripling seed production. The most common ALCB management practice is the loose cell system, in which cocooned bees are removed from nesting cavitie...