The requirement to phase-out methyl bromide (MB) in the cut-flower sector needs more attention than in other sectors in order to identify fully effective solutions that are environmental friendly and technically sustainable. Resistant varieties, soilless cultivation, steam, soil solarization, biocontrol agents and chemicals have been evaluated as potential alternatives and can be considered as ...

This study was conducted in Florida in 1999 and 2000 to examine the impact of alternative crop production practices on soil quality and yields of fresh market pepper (Capsicum annuum). Replicated field plots were established on an organic vegetable farm that had been under certification for 5 years and on a conventional pepper farm that had been fumigated with methyl bromide for 25 consecutive ...

Combining effects of soil solarization and grafting on soilborne pathogens, plant height and yield in cucumber were compared in a greenhouse of Bati Akdeniz Agricultural Research Institute located in Antalya in 2008 fall season. The experiment was set in split plot design containing; 1, 2, 4 and 5 months soil solarization (MSS), and non-solarized control plots (NSC) on which grafted Maximus F1+...

the pistachio gardens in iran rival other countries with 280000 hectares and rank first in the world in terms of annual production 300,000 mts. ecological factors for pistachio planting favor the growth of aspergillus flavus which produce aflatoxin as secondary metabolites which reduces pistachio exports. it is important to control a. flavus and its aflatoxin production to increase pistachio ex...

We report on two types of Raman laser sources emitting in the near and middle ultraviolet spectral ranges by use a solarization-resilient gas-filled inhibited-coupling (IC) hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber (HCPCF) with record low transmission loss (minimum 5 dB/km at 480 nm). The first source type emits comb generated hydrogen-filled HCPCF pumped 355 nm wavelength microchip nanosecond pulsed ...

Bennett, R. S., Spurgeon, D. W., DeTar, W. R., Gerik, J. S., Hutmacher, R. B., and Hanson, B. D. 2011. Efficacy of four soil treatments against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum race 4 on cotton. Plant Dis. 95:967-976. Fusarium wilt, caused by race 4 of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum, is a critically important disease problem in California cotton (Pima, Gossypium barbadense; Upland, ...