Soft-fruit growers spend considerable sums trying to control two-spotted spider mite.
As nitrogen is essential for plant growth and can also determine plant quality, it is important that it is supplied in adequate quantity to meet the needs of crops. The best approach is to monitor the nitrogen content of plant tissues and then adjust the nitrogen supply accordingly. Plant tissues can...
The impact of light quantity on rooting has not often been investigated with vegetatively propagated, herbaceous annual bedding plants. In the research reported here, uniform shoot-tip cuttings were harvested from vegetative stock plants of various species including Argyranthemum frutescens, Diascia...
Growers are always interested in techniques that might enable them to detect stress in their crops more quickly. One such technique is chlorophyll fluorescence because it can be used as an indicator of photosynthetic activity.
Powdery mildews of rose and herbaceous perennials are widespread, common and potentially very damaging diseases. While fungicides still remain the primary method of control, the efficacy and crop safety of individual fungicides against powdery mildew diseases on different crops is likely to vary.
Growers and researchers are well aware of the need to use water efficiently (HW, 20 May, 9 September and 11 November 2011). The present research examined how to deploy a limited number of moisture sensors to predict the substrate water content of a large number of containerised trees.
Various plants have been tested for their ability to remove volatile organic pollutants from the air, especially those associated with new buildings.
Nitrogen is the most important mineral nutrient for plants and growers usually ensure that it is supplied at an appropriate rate.
Windows-based decision-support software has been developed with East Malling Research to forecast powdery and downy mildew on roses and act as an early warning system to help growers make decisions relating to the management of these two economically important diseases.
Young rose plants produced for cultivation in gardens are now most commonly raised in containers and sold in spring. Customers are usually seeking compact, well-branched specimens and such plants can be produced in many different ways.
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