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'Cultivating health' : therapeutic landscapes and older people in northern England. [PDF]

, 2004
While gardening is seen, essentially, as a leisure activity it has also been suggested that the cultivation of a garden plot offers a simple way of harnessing the healing power of nature (The therapeutic garden, Bantam Press, London, 2000).
Milligan, Christine, Bingley, Amanda, Gatrell, Anthony   +2 more
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Consuming gardens: Representations of paradise, nostalgia and postmodernism [PDF]

, 2003
This paper unravels the types of relationships people have with their gardens. This is achieved through a review of previous literature on the topic, coupled with a theoretical contextualisation which utilises postmodern concepts, notably that of Jameson'
Hewer, P.A.
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Evaluation of the impact of a school gardening intervention on children's fruit and vegetable intake: a randomised controlled trial. [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Current academic literature suggests that school gardening programmes can provide an interactive environment with the potential to change children’s fruit and vegetable intake.
Neil Hancock, Janet E Cade, Camilla Nykjaer, Christian, MS, Evans, CE, Charlotte EL Evans, Cade, JE, Meaghan MeaghanS Christian, Nykjaer, C, Hancock, N   +9 more
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Selenium Biofortification of Crop Food by Beneficial Microorganisms

Journal of Fungi, 2020
Selenium (Se) is essential for human health, however, Se is deficient in soil in many places all around the world, resulting in human diseases, such as notorious Keshan disease and Keshin–Beck disease. Therefore, Se biofortification is a popular approach
Yuanming Ye, Jingwang Qu, Yao Pu, Shen Rao, Feng Xu, Chu Wu   +5 more
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Isolation and Characterization of APETALA3 Orthologs and Promoters from the Distylous Fagopyrum esculentum

Plants, 2021
Common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) produces distylous flowers with undifferentiated petaloid tepals, which makes it obviously different from flowers of model species.
Lingtian Zeng, Jiao Zhang, Xuan Wang, Zhixiong Liu   +3 more
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Urban Gardening Realities: The Example Case Study of Portsmouth, England [PDF]

, 2015
This paper offers an empirical case study of the potential for urban gardening to contribute to individual food security. Food security generally encompasses both availability and accessibility.
Alan Hallsworth, Wong, Alfred, Alfred Wong, Hallsworth, Alan   +3 more
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Allotment gardening and health: a comparative survey among allotment gardeners and their neighbors without an allotment [PDF]

, 2010
Background The potential contribution of allotment gardens to a healthy and active life-style is increasingly recognized, especially for elderly populations. However, few studies have empirically examined beneficial effects of allotment gardening. In the
van Dillen Sonja ME, Vries, S., de, Dillen, S.M.E., van, van den Berg Agnes E, Marijke van Winsum-Westra, Sonja ME van Dillen, van Winsum-Westra Marijke, Berg, A.E., van den, de Vries, S., de Vries Sjerp, Sjerp de Vries, van Winsum-Westra, M., Agnes E van den Berg, van den Berg, A.E., van Dillen, S.M.E., Winsum-Westra, M., van   +15 more
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GARDEN SUBURBS AND GARDEN CITIES. [PDF]

The Lancet, 1907
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The Gardener and the Walled Garden

, 2022
AbstractPlatforms for standardising and sharing data between research and care are in construction, as they have been for some years. Currently, they take the form of creating a large ‘knowledge bank’ linking health records and biological samples with explicit consent for research use.
Sophie Day, Jayne Smith, Helen Ward
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The Comprehensive Effects of Rhizophagus intraradices and P on Root System Architecture and P Transportation in Citrus limon L.

Agriculture, 2022
Both arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and phosphorus (P) collectively influence the root system architecture (RSA), but whether the combination of the two affects RSA, particularly lateral root formation, is unknown.
Chun-Yan Liu, Xiao-Niu Guo, Xiao-Long Wu, Feng-Jun Dai, Qiang-Sheng Wu   +4 more
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