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USING COVER CROPS TO IMPROVE VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN SOUTH FLORIDA
HortScience, 2005 Summer cover crops can improve soil fertility by adding organic matter, supplying nutrients through mineralization, reducing nutrient leaching, and improving soil water and nutrient holding capacity. Other benefits include weed suppression and reduction of soil parasitic nematodes.
Teresa Olczyk +3 more
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Evaluation of Summer Cover Crops for Vegetable Production in South Florida
HortScience, 1998 Cover crops are used for weed control and to retain nutrients during the heavy summer rains and have become an integral part of vegetable production practices in south Florida. Moreover the use of cover crops will continue to increase as farmers seek to improve soil quality and reduce chemical inputs. A wide variety of plants are used as cover crops in
Herbert Bryan, Yuncong Li
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Tospovirus-Resistant Tomato Varieties for Southern Florida
EDIS, 2017 Authors describe performance of Tospovirus-resistant tomato varieties under commercial production settings in Dade County, FL. Virus resistance has become important for this area since the emergence of two new tomato-infecting tospoviruses. Knowledge of
Rebecca L. Wente +4 more
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First Record of Zelus obscuridorsis (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) as a Predator of the South American Tomato Leafminer, Tuta absoluta (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) [PDF]
, 2014 The South American tomato leafminer Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is a Neotropical key pest of tomato in South America, and in recent years, it has become established in Europe and Africa. Recently we found the native true bug, Zelus
Luna, María Gabriela +3 more
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Yield and horticultural performance of seed-oil pumpkin in south Florida
EDIS, 2018 Naked seeds derived from ‘naked-seed’ pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) are a popular ingredient in many snacks, breads, breakfast cereal, soups and other edible goods (Baxter et al. 2012; Loy 2004). Vegetable oil derived from the seed can be purchased by the
Geoffrey Meru, Yuqing Fu
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Food Safety and Health, EarlyView.Planned harvesting and processing of marine macroalgae could meet future global food needs and mitigate fuel‐originated carbon dioxide responsible for climate change. Microalgal foods are nutritious and safe. The utilization of macroalgae would avoid environmental problems arising from the release of overgrowing macroalgae caused by heatwaves, which ...
Upali Samarajeewa
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Chrysanthemum, Edible—Chrysanthemum coronarium L.
EDIS, 2003 This document provides an overview of the edible chrysanthemum, also known as garland chrysanthemum. Commonly consumed in the Orient, it is recognized for its whitish green, notched leaves.
James M. Stephens
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Urbanization and food transition in the Brazilian Amazon: From wild to domesticated meat
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Urbanization is expected to influence food transitions, resulting in a shift from wild foods to more domesticated foods. Concomitantly, food insecurity and urban demand for natural resources, including wildlife, are expected to increase overall, even when the per capita consumption is expected to decrease.
Willandia A. Chaves +7 more
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Climate change‐driven expansion of goosegrass highlights risks to global food production
Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Climate change is expanding the climatic suitability of Eleusine indica into temperate agricultural regions, increasing its overlap with major soybean and maize production areas. These findings highlight a growing global threat to food security and the need for proactive weed management strategies.
Thiago Deomar Ludwig +4 more
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Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.We describe a collaborative, multi‐partner, multi‐objective structured decision making process to develop a range‐wide conservation planning framework to recover an at‐risk species—the gopher frog. The process identified optimal, site‐specific management strategies that balanced population outcomes and cost, depending on the weight decision makers ...
Brian A. Crawford +2 more
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