Ice Nucleation, Propagation, and Deep Supercooling in Woody Plants M. Wisniewskia; M. Fullerb; J. Paltac; J. Carterd; R. Arorae a U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Appalachian Fruit Research Station, Kearneysvile, WV, USA b University of Plymouth, Newton Abbot, UK c Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WA, USA d Department of Horticulture, U...

This paper gives a pictorial view of the relevance of lean thinking, particularly the applicationof muda as a supplement to the sustainable improvement diagnosis technique of existing public office buildings,for a fuller assessment of users’ requirement in Nigeria. The impact of perceived muda was related to the triplebottom line of sustainable development on perceived job productivity and desi...

Medicinal, Aromatic and Nutraceutical Plants from Mountainous Areas • Mycotoxins in Nuts and Dried Fruits • Cashew Nut • Apricot Breeding and Culture • Fruit Breeding and Genetics • Sustainable Vegetable Production in South East Asia • High Tunnel Horticultural Crop Production • Organic Matter Management and Compost Use in Horticulture LEDs: The Future of Greenhouse Lighting! • High Value Horti...

Horticulture Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (K.B., Y.P., Y.Wa., P.W.S., Y.We.); Horticulture College, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China (K.B., J.C.); Horticulture College, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China (H.W., Y.P., Y.L.); Division of Vegetable Science, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 10012, India (T.K.B.); ...

BACKGROUND Androgens are crucial for normal testicular descent. Studies show that some pesticides have estrogenic or antiandrogenic effects, and that female workers exposed to pesticides have increased risk of having a boy with cryptorchidism. The main objective of the present study was to investigate whether pregnant women exposed to pesticides due to their work in horticulture experience exce...

fire blight disease caused by erwinia amylovora is a destructive disease of pome fruits including apple worldwide. use of resistant cultivars is the most efficient method of disease control. in the present research, we investigated genetic resistance of 89 local and imported commercial apple cultivars in natural contaminated conditions to the bacterial disease using beltsville scoring system (u...

This paper explores the e-readiness of firms in the Australian horticulture supply chain. The paper draws from the perceived e-readiness model (PERM) and relies on data collected from a survey of firms in the horticulture sector in Australia. The results indicate that while horticulture firms demonstrate relative organizational preparation for the conduct of e-business, the value network within...

Organic horticulture producers rank weeds as one of their most troublesome, time-consuming, and costly production problems. With the increasing significance of organic horticulture, the need for new bioherbicides to control weeds has grown. Potential bioherbicides may be developed from pathogens, natural products, and extracts of natural materials. Fungal and bacteria pathogens are two importan...