Advancements in Agricultural Ground Robots for Specialty Crops: An Overview of Innovations, Challenges, and Prospects [PDF]
PlantsRobotic technologies are affording opportunities to revolutionize the production of specialty crops (fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, and horticulture). They offer the potential to automate tasks and save inputs such as labor, fertilizer, and pesticides ...
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Evidence of widespread pollen limitation in diverse specialty crops on commercial farms [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceSpecialty crops (non-staple fruits and vegetables) have diverse pollination requirements and pollinator communities, yet production may be limited by pollen limitation.
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Plant-Parasitic Nematodes Associated with Asian Vegetables in Florida [PDF]
EDIS, 2022 Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) are one of the main soilborne pathogens in Florida and cause considerable damage to many vegetables. Asian vegetables are important specialty crops in Florida, but no information is available on their hosts status ...
Hung X. Bui, Johan A. Desaeger
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EDIS, 2006 FE664, a 5-page report by Rodney L. Clouser, is one of four fact sheets reporting information collected from Florida producers concerning attitudes and views regarding U.S. Congressional enactment of the next farm bill.
Rodney L. Clouser
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Fertigation for Vegetables: A Practical Guide for Small Fields [PDF]
EDIS, 2012 More and more farmers are growing small crops of fruits and vegetables for specialty local markets. They commonly grow several crops at different stages of development at the same time, so they have a variety of produce to sell to customers.
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Widely targeted metabolomics reveals conserved and differential metabolite patterns related to nutritional and bioactive compounds in stems and leaves of three Portulaca oleracea cultivars [PDF]
Food Chemistry: XThis study employed a widely targeted metabolomics approach to compare the stems and leaves of three Portulaca oleracea L. cultivars. A total of 1315 metabolites were identified, for which we pioneered a novel analytical framework classifying them into a
Mingzhao Zhu +6 more
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The T2T genome assembly of Ziziphus jujuba ‘Huizao’ and pan-genome analyses provide insights into fruit texture diversity in jujube [PDF]
Molecular HorticultureJuan Jin +15 more
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Specialty Vegetable Crops Production and Marketing in Ohio [PDF]
HortScience, 1996 Specialty vegetables are defined as crops that are different in color, size, shape or nutrient content for that particular crop, those not normally grown in a specific area, or crops grown out of season. Knowing the clientele and what they demand is the first step in successfully marketing these less common crops. Due to market demand, “uncommon” crops
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Validating a Crop Production Budget for Containerized Specialty Vegetables [PDF]
HortScience, 1997 Growers producing new crops often do not understand how to price individual items. The prices of common container nursery stock items may be listed in monthly trade publications. Prices for fruits and vegetables fluctuate on a daily basis. A production budget for containerized specialty vegetables was adapted from one developed for ornamental nurseries,
Mary Lamberts +2 more
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Towards a Machine Vision-Based Yield Monitor for the Counting and Quality Mapping of Shallots
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 In comparison to field crops such as cereals, cotton, hay and grain, specialty crops often require more resources, are usually more sensitive to sudden changes in growth conditions and are known to produce higher value products.
Amanda A. Boatswain Jacques +5 more
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