The floriculture industry faces many challenges including increasing energy and input prices, seasonality of its products and international competition. To analyze floriculture demand, we estimate and use simulation analysis to decompose it into market penetration and buying frequency. Understanding what are the factors that influence non-buyers of floral products to become buyers, and the fact...

The basic objective of this paper is to measure and compare the profitability of investments made by the small and marginal farmers of the state of West Bengal in floriculture shifting from the traditional cultivation of paddy. A comparison of IRR is made to establish the fact that cultivation of flowers yield higher returns farmers whose land size is so small that viability of paddy cultivatio...

The “Star Phloxes” .,. 191 Discussion ............................................................... 200 The funnel-shaped phloxes ................................................ 204 Genetics of flower color ...................................................... zog Factor differences involved when type with completely white flowers (A) was crossed with type having dark-eyed white-bladed flow...

Flowers for Algernon is a novel written in 1966 by Daniel Keyes. Since its publication, it has received significant critical acclaim, earning a Nebula science-fiction award, and was also adapted into a feature film. Set in the 1960s, the novel follows the story of Charlie Gordon, an intellectually disabled man who lives a simple but happy life working a cleaning job at a local bakery. Charlie's...

Microwave-assisted and ultrasound-assisted extraction assays were used to isolate total flavonoids (TF) from Osmanthus fragrans flowers. The effects of the solid-liquid ratio, ethanol concentration, microwave power, microwave extraction time, ultrasonic power and ultrasonic extraction time on the yield of TF were studied. A sequential combination of microwave- and ultrasound-assisted extraction...

Extracts from raw materials from different plant parts, tissue-cultured plants, and callus cultures of Oroxylum indicum were analyzed for in vitro antioxidant activities determined by DPPH radical scavenging assay and evaluated for phytochemical profiles by TLC and LC-MS methods. The results were analyzed by principal component analysis (PCA) to evaluate the similarity. Stalk, pedicel, flower, ...

To study the bioactive substances of H. scabrum, ethanolic and aqueous extracts leaves flowers were analyzed for their phytochemical contents antioxidant actings. The potiential was estimated using four methods, including DPPH radical, ABTS decolorization assay, reducing power total capacity. results exhibited that flower contain higher amounts flavonoids (4.675 mg. g-1) saponin (29.572 mg.g -1...

Some time ago, in the garden of a friend’s house, my 5-year-old son and his chum were struggling over possession of a water hose. (They were in conflict.) Each wanted to use it first to water the garden. (They had a competitive orientation.) Each was trying to tug it away from the other and both were crying. Each was very frustrated, and neither was able to use the hose to sprinkle the flowers ...

This work focuses on the responses of dancing bees to uncertain rewards. We varied the distribution of a fixed amount of sugar solution among the several flowers of a patch and recorded the foraging and subsequent dance behaviour of single honeybees collecting such a reward at that patch. Concurrently, we aimed to minimize the well-known modulatory effects of sugar reward on both the probabilit...

Heteromeles arbutifolia (from yellow fruit), "TOYON" Versatile, Calif. native, water-efficient small tree/large shrub w/ toothed, glossy green leaves, large clusters of white flowers in summer, showy red berries in winter; some may produce yellow berries. [9] (H*B*W*C*) Homalanthus populifolius, "QUEENSLAND POPLAR" Small, Aust. rainforest tree that is surprisingly hardy; fast-growing w/ handsom...