Sentences with phrase «in plant cultivations»

Strong experience and expertise in plant cultivation, pest control and horticulture.

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Capsicum annuum L. — According to Naudin C. longum DC., and C. grossum Willd., are not specifically distinct from this plant It is said by Clusius to have been brought by the Portuguese from Brazil to India, and reached England in 1548; and is mentioned by Gerarde as being under cultivation in his time.
Cultivation for export, however, would involve less risk, if capsicums were regarded as a secondary or intermediate crop, to be grown on a plantation along with the principal one — as natives plant groundnuts or other beans between the rows of their maize - gardens — in a country with favourable soil and climate.
The semi-compact plant was developed for the commercial greenhouse industry, but it is suitable for cultivation in a formal garden bed.
Bel Soley agronomists — scientists who specialize in soil quality, land cultivation, and crop production — distribute nursery - grown «starter» pepper plants to 1/4 — 1/2 acre family owned farms.
Coffee cultivation in Burundi began in the 1930s when the Belgians brought in Arabica coffee plants (mostly varietal Bourbon).
(NRS 453A.370) A cultivation facility or facility for the production of edible marijuana products or marijuana - infused products shall not label usable marijuana, edible marijuana products or marijuana - infused products as «organic» unless the marijuana plants used are produced, processed and certified in a manner that is consistent with the national organic standards established by the United States Department of Agriculture in accordance with the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990.
EU Court of Justice throws out legal action against genetically engineered soybeans / Dossier: Cultivation of genetically engineered maize in the EU has to be suspended / New scientific papers on metabolic changes in genetically engineered plants and con
Attempts at domestication of the wild plants have led to the development of the commercial chile piquín, which grows under cultivation in Mexico and Texas (some wild forms have escaped).
Grow Hydroponic Chiles — Hydroponics means cultivation of plants in nutrient solution rather than in soil.
However, rather than implying a swift liberalisation of illicit drugs, Sefatian suggested another direction: re-introducing the cultivation of plants such as poppy and cannabis under state supervision; legalisation of cannabis and opium use under specific circumstances outlined by ad hoc laws, for instance, only in private places and for opium — as he told me — only for people above a certain age.
A recent study from Seedo, which manufactures a plant cultivation device, found that more pot is consumed in New York than in any other city on earth.
The Government of Thailand has accused the Nigerian Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh of falsehood over his claims that the growth of rice cultivation has shut down rice plants in Thailand.
Cannabis plants in flower at Vireo Health's medical marijuana cultivation and manufacturing facility Tryon Technology Park Wednesday June 21, 2017 in Johnstown, NY.
However, microgravity can reduce cell growth, alter gene expression and change the pattern of root growth — all aspects which critically affect plant cultivation in space.
From a childhood fascination with cactus plants, to field work in Brazil tracing the wild progenitor of the cassava plant, to learning the subtleties of rice cultivation from an expert farmer in the highlands of Thailand, evolutionary biologist Barbara Schaal has found science to be «just so much...
Not only do we expect to commercialize the cultivation kits domestically, but we also hope to see it used in a wide range of applications from the conservation and growth of endangered species to the cultivation of medicinal plants
Scientists at Kumamoto University originally developed a cultivation kit to culture and identify mycorrhizae, fungi that have a symbiotic relationship with many plants and are necessary for cultivating orchidaceous plants in the laboratory.
In addition to the labor, orchid cultivation often requires the use of a greenhouse, giving the plant an image of only available to relatively wealthy people.
But the earliest archaeological evidence for crop cultivation in China is 11,000 years old, suggesting that farming was slow to emerge from ancient traditions of plant use.
For plant oil — based biofuels, such as jatropha, the main obstacle is the lack of research and practice in large - scale commercial cultivation, as well as mechanized harvesting.
Alcoholic beverages have been made from malted barley since the Stone Age, and some even consider this to be a major reason why humankind adopted plant cultivation, at least in the Fertile Crescent, where barley was domesticated.
But plant cultivation in either a water - based nutrient solution, shown here, or a nutrient - rich mist enables water to be almost completely conserved.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Plants, show ammonium nitrate fertiliser used in wheat cultivation contributes almost half (43 per cent) of the greenhouse gas emissions — dwarfing all other processes in the supply chain.
From a childhood fascination with cactus plants, to field work in Brazil tracing the wild progenitor of the cassava plant, to learning the subtleties of rice cultivation from an expert farmer in the highlands of Thailand, evolutionary biologist Barbara Schaal has found science to be «just so much fun.»
This so - called short - term evolution leads to a continued increase of crop yield in mixtures — a possibility that, according to Schmid, was unexpected in both basic research and plant cultivation.
People may have been busy with other types of cultivation, ignoring rice, which may have been in the landscape, but as a minor plant for a long time before it too became a food staple.
Without knowing which gene variants were contributing useful properties, people simply selected the best plants for continued cultivation, in this case choosing plants that had large backpacks.
Other archeological and fossil evidence, Cooke says, suggests the earliest human populations in Jamaica were foragers who lived off of available local resources, together with some cultivation of native island and mainland plants.
«Research on the ISS is being conducted in areas as diverse as high - energy particle physics, Earth remote sensing, protein crystallization, human physiology, radiation, plant cultivation experiments, fluids, combustion, materials science and biology,» she said.
But in opening the door to the plant's cultivation, far more scrutiny is needed as to how eucalyptus will behave when grown in bulk, said Doria Gordon, a senior ecologist at the Nature Conservancy.
Most coral soils are deficient in potassium (K) and generally lack many other essential trace elements and micronutrients to support sustainable cultivation of food plants.
To grow the plant for the benefit of all its parts, whole specimens can be found in garden stores during cultivation seasons.
Images of the sacha inchi plant in Incan tombs are thought to be proof of this long - ago cultivation.
Limes made their way to the New World with Columbus on his second voyage in 1493, and were subsequently planted in many Caribbean countries whose hot, humid climates supported the cultivation of this fruit.
Pollan intertwines history, anecdote, and epiphany in this paradigm - altering view of the mutually beneficial relationships between humans and four plants that have thrived under cultivation and satisfied specific desires: apples and sweetness, tulips and beauty, marijuana and intoxication, potatoes and control.
Two people were arrested and 219 marijuana plants were seized Tuesday after Lake County deputy sheriffs raided two greenhouses in remote northeast Lake County.The raid came after sheriff's investigators received information the greenhouses were being used for marijuana cultivation, said sheriff's Lt. John Collins.
We will host several projects at park sites in Marin and San Francisco, with activities including habitat restoration, native plant cultivation, beach cleanups, painting, trail work, and more.
Motifs glide in and out; graphite lines trace the contours of unknown plants and body parts, accented by strokes of green, yellow, orange, and red crayon drifting like blossom petals across the surface... the drawings in this show suggest that Gorky's aesthetic is invested in the cultivation of visual ideas that transcend the individual artwork, a process that is occasionally frozen in paint.»
The work recalls the bloody history of indigo planting in Bengal, when the British turned farmers from food to indigo cultivation, offering loans at interest rates that left farmers, forced to convert their crop, in debt.
Rescued Rhododendrons (7 Rhododendron ponticum plants rescued from Elrick Hill, Scotland and transported to Parque Los Alcornocales, Spain, from where they where introduced into cultivation in 1763 by Claes Alstroemer)(1999) is a series of five photographs, which document the artist's journey by car from Scotland to Spain, with a selection of rhododendron ponticum plants.
Image: Simon Starling, Rescued Rhododendrons (7 Rhododendron ponticum plants rescued from Elrick Hill, Scotland and transported to Parque Los Alcornocales, Spain, from where they were introduced into cultivation in 1763 by Claes Alstroemer), 1999, Courtesy the Artist and The Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow © Simon Starling
Johnson traveled to Washington, D.C., in February (his second trip to the Capitol to meet with the DEA) to hand - deliver the North Dakota industrial hemp - farming licenses he's signed off on for two farmers — the first two farmers to be licensed to grow the environmentally friendly crop since the state codified rules for the plant's cultivation last fall.
Finally, Callendar 1938 closed with the relatively optimistic comment that, in addition to the direct benefits of heat and power, there would be indirect benefits at the northern margin of cultivation, through carbon dioxide fertilization of plant growth and even delay the return of Northern Hemisphere glaciation:
«NDSU continues to believe that cultivation of industrial hemp would create significant economic and business opportunities for the state's farmers,» Kenneth Grafton, NDSU dean and director, and Burton Johnson, associate professor in the Plant Science Department, wrote.
For instance the above mentioned small increases of mean temperature would be important at the northern margin of cultivation, and the growth of favourably situated plants is directly proportional to the carbon dioxide pressure (Brown and Escombe, 1905): In any case the return of the deadly glaciers should be delayed indefinitely.
``... the combustion of fossil fuel... is likely to prove beneficial to mankind in several ways... For instance... small increases of mean temperature would be important at the northern margin of cultivation and the growth of... plants is directly proportional to the carbon dioxide pressure.»
36 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Solutions Global Warming Prevention Cleanup Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Remove CO2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Shift from coal to natural gas Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Improve energy efficiency Sequester CO2 deep underground Shift to renewable energy resources Sequester CO2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Figure 20.14 Solutions: methods for slowing atmospheric warming during this century.
51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup
Farmer adaptation may range from shifts in planting, cultivation and harvest dates, to changes in crop type (Southworth et al., 2000; Pfeifer and Habeck, 2002).
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