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Agronomy, 2020 Many arid and semiarid regions of the world face serious water shortages that are projected to have significant adverse impacts on irrigated agriculture and create unprecedented challenges for providing food and water security for the rapidly growing ...
Mohammad R. Gohardoust +3 more
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Cherry and fresh market tomatoes: Differences in chemical, morphological, and sensory traits and their implications for consumer acceptance [PDF]
, 2019 The tomato commercial groups cherry and fresh market, mainly classified by fruit size, have clearly segregated markets. We aimed to estimate the variation within and between these groups and to analyze factors that impact consumer acceptance. To this end,
Casals Missio, Joan +4 more
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Advances in soilless cultivation technology of horticultural crops: Review
The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2022 The burgeoning population and climate change posing a challenge to meet the sufficient and quality food, fodder and fuel demand in 2050.The cultivable land is also shrinking due to industrialization and urbanization as the availability was 0.50 ha in ...
RAVI GAUTAM +9 more
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Disease suppressive soilless culture systems; characterisation of its microflora [PDF]
, 2001 The trend in glasshouse horticulture has always been to start culture systems as aseptic as possible. However, several root diseases still cause problems under these conditions. The present paper shows the importance of the microflora to suppress Pythium
Os, E.A., van +3 more
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Effect of different plant bio-stimulants in improving cucumber growth under soilless culture
European Journal of Biological Research, 2021 There are more studies about plant bio-stimulants but no clear results about which is the best one in improving vegetable crops specially cucumber. The aim of this study is to screen the effect of various bio-stimulants in improving cucumber (Cucumis ...
Sayed Hussein Abdelgalil +5 more
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Growing media constituents determine the microbial nitrogen conversions in organic growing media for horticulture [PDF]
, 2016 Vegetables and fruits are an important part of a healthy food diet, however, the eco-sustainability of the production of these can still be significantly improved.
Boon, Nico +6 more
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Biologia Plantarum, 2014 Nickel (Ni) is an irreplaceable component of urease which reduces urea toxicity, but excess of Ni has detrimental effects on plant growth. The responses of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. cvs. Negin and Dominus) plants supplied with urea as sole N source to
A. H. Khoshgoftarmanesh +2 more
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Glass foam granulate as growing medium for tomato and cucumber [PDF]
, 2011 Glass foam granulate was evaluated for use as a horticultural rooting medium with laboratory tests and cultivation experiments. The laboratory tests included moisture characteristics, rehydration rate and pH buffering analyses.
Blok, C., Chizhmak, S., Winkel, A., van
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Is Soilless Culture a Sustainable Form of Agriculture?
Horticulturae, 2023 A soilless culture system (SCS) is a technique used for plant production that has recently become increasingly popular [...]
Nazim S. Gruda +2 more
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Economic analysis of organic greenhouse lettuce production in Turkey. [PDF]
, 2006 Health issues and environmental concerns have drawn the attention to organic agriculture aiming to protect the natural balance and to produce without damaging the environment. This study aims determining economic feasibility of organic greenhouse lettuce
Engindeniz, Sait, Tuzel, Yuksel
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