News tagged with tomato transplants

Prevent tomato late blight next growing season

(PhysOrg.com) -- Across the northeast, home gardeners expecting the usual bumper crop of tomatoes this season were dismayed to find their plants affected by late blight, the same fungus that caused Ireland's potato famine ...

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created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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New non-destructive method to estimate leaf area index in vegetables

The productivity and health of horticultural crops depends on the ability of the plant cover to intercept light energy. This ability is a function of the amount of leaf area, the architecture of the vegetation cover, and ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genome duplication encourages rapid adaptation of plants

Plants adapt to the local weather and soil conditions in which they grow, and these environmental adaptations are known to evolve over thousands of years as mutations slowly accumulate in plants' genetic code. But a University ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Texas AgriLife researchers working to develop heartier, better-adapted crops

Dr. Daniel Leskovar, a Texas AgriLife Research plant physiologist at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Uvalde, has been investigating ways to help vegetable plants make a less stressful transition from the ...

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Old McDonald Had a Phytochemical

Forget the moo-moo here and quack-quack there. Farmers may find phytochemicals to be the barnyard bonanza.

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created Nov 07, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Fantastic Voyage: A new nanoscale view of the biological world

Echoing the journey through the human body in Fantastic Voyage, doctors might soon be able to track individual donor cells after a transplant, or to find where and how much of a cancer treatment drug there is within a cell.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 05, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (24) | comments 0


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