The mushroom industry relies on supplies of wet, deep-dug peat and sugar beet lime for casings to produce high yields. However, the availability of these materials is declining in Britain and Ireland and imports will increase costs.
Grafting is an important tool in the battle against the pests and diseases of vegetable crops, especially for members of the Cucurbitaceae (such as cucumbers and melons) and Solanaceae (such as tomatoes, eggplants and peppers) families.
The suppression and control of high humidity in glasshouses is important because it helps prevent fungal disease and promotes crop transpiration and growth. Condensation or relative humidities of more than 90 per cent for prolonged periods increase the risk of stem Botrytis, a devastating disease in...
Cherry tomatoes are susceptible to cracking during storage and can then be infected by Botrytis. In the experiments reported here, cherry tomatoes were picked when red and were then dipped for 10 minutes into a variety of different liquids.
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...
Nitrogen is the most important mineral nutrient for plants and growers usually ensure that it is supplied at an appropriate rate.
Rootstocks used in the UK have been grown for decades and have limitations. There is a strong need for new rootstocks for apples, pears, cherries and plums. A number have been bred in the UK and overseas, which are becoming available to growers.
Onions possess many health-giving properties, some of which are related to their pungency.
One very efficient way of grafting vegetable seedlings onto disease-resistant rootstocks is to combine grafting and re-rooting into one single operation. Grafting is made easier if the rootstock seedlings have long hypocotyls.
Columnea latent viroid (CLVd) is one of nine viroids known to affect tomatoes.
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