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Influence of surfactant HLB values and commercial agricultural adjuvants on pesticide mimic penetration in plant leaves

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Penetration of a pesticide mimic into a spring onion leaf due to the presence of a surfactant additive. Abstract BACKGROUND Effective pesticide action is crucial for optimizing efficacy and minimizing environmental impact, particularly with the increasing reliance on systemic pesticides.
Begüm Demirkurt, Maarten Klein, Daniel Bonn   +2 more
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Enhancing Infrastructure Resilience in Service Utilities through Embedding Versatility in System Architecture

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Enhancing infrastructure resilience, a key component of transforming and sustainably developing service utilities, requires a transdisciplinary and systems engineering framework. Addressing vulnerabilities in system architecture offers opportunities for resilience improvements, thereby mitigating the environmental, social, and economic impacts
Bob Hasanabadi, Graeme W. Troxell, Steven A. Conrad   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Isolation and characterization of three bacteriophages infecting Erwinia amylovora and their potential as biological control agent

Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 2023
Background Fire Blight, incited by Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most damaging pear and apple diseases in the world. Fire blight was introduced to Egypt in the 1960 and threatens the Egypt’s costs for pear industry.
Wessam Hassan, Osman Ahmed, Rasha E. Hassan, Sahar A. Youssef, A. A. Shalaby   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Can Labour Tackle Poverty in London?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the challenges that London faces in garnering attention for its problems associated with inequality from the Labour government. A combination of a shortage of resources and the growing threat of Reform UK makes focusing specifically on tackling poverty in London a difficult political challenge for Labour. Initial attempts
Graeme Atherton
wiley   +1 more source

High-Throughput Phenotyping of Fire Blight Disease Symptoms Using Sensing Techniques in Apple

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019
Washington State produces about 70% of total fresh market apples in the United States. One of the primary goals of apple breeding programs is the development of new cultivars resistant to devastating diseases such as fire blight. The overall objective of
Sanaz Jarolmasjed, Sanaz Jarolmasjed, Sindhuja Sankaran, Afef Marzougui, Sarah Kostick, Yongsheng Si, Juan José Quirós Vargas, Kate Evans   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping of fire blight resistance in Malus ×robusta 5 flowers following artificial inoculation

BMC Plant Biology, 2019
Background Although the most common path of infection for fire blight, a severe bacterial disease on apple, is via host plant flowers, quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for fire blight resistance to date have exclusively been mapped following shoot ...
Andreas Peil, Christine Hübert, Annette Wensing, Mary Horner, Ofere Francis Emeriewen, Klaus Richter, Thomas Wöhner, David Chagné, Carolina Orellana-Torrejon, Munazza Saeed, Michela Troggio, Erika Stefani, Susan E. Gardiner, Magda-Viola Hanke, Henryk Flachowsky, Vincent G.M. Bus   +15 more
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Fire Blight on Thornless Blackberries1

HortScience, 1978
Abstract The first occurrence of fire blight on thornless blackberries (Rubus spp.) was reported in Illinois in 1976 (7, 8). Infections appeared either at the cane tip and proceeded basipetally, at axillary buds, causing cane girdling, or on flower/fruit clusters.
Robert M. Skirvin, Alan G. Otterbacher, Steve M. Ries   +2 more
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of pear (Pyrus communis L.) hybrid combinations for the transmission of fire blight resistance and fruit characteristics

Czech Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding, 2018
Fire blight is one of the most destructive diseases of pome fruits, especially pears. In current conditions when the demand for organic products is increasing, improvement of resistant rootstock and varieties is becoming important due to the lack of an ...
Yasemin EVRENOSOĞLU, Kerem MERTOĞLU
doaj   +1 more source