Dynamics of nutrient availability in tomato production with organic fertilisers

Manure and sorbent fertilisers increase on-going nutrient availability relative to conventional fertilisers.

The key to better nutrient efficiency is to simultaneously improve uptake and decrease losses. This study sought to achieve this balance using sorbent additions and manure nutrients (spent poultry litter; SL) compared with results obtained using conventional sources (Conv; urea nitrogen, N; and phosphate-phosphorus; P). Two experiments were conducted. Firstly, a phosphorus pot trial involving t...

Stem Cell Dynamics in Response to Nutrient Availability

When nutrient availability becomes limited, animals must actively adjust their metabolism to allocate limited resources and maintain tissue homeostasis. However, it is poorly understood how tissues maintained by adult stem cells respond to chronic changes in metabolism. To begin to address this question, we fed flies a diet lacking protein (protein starvation) and assayed both germline and inte...

Grass Seed Production: Weeds, Herbicides and Fertilisers

Four weed species (Bromus mollis, Vulpia sp., Poa annua, Steltaria media) occur in 30% or more of all perennial ryegrass seed samples. Of the listed undesirable species, Avena fatua (wild oat) and Hordeum murinum occurred respectively in 5.3 and 3.5% of ryegrass seedlots. Only 6 herbicides are registered for use in grass seed crops in New Zealand, 2 for wild oat, and 4 for broadleaved weeds. Th...

synthesis of 3-aryl-2h-benzo[b]-1,4-oxazines in [omim]bf4 and reduction of organic compounds in methylimidazolium formate

در این پروژه ترکیبات 3-آریل-2h-بنزو[b]-4،1-اکسازین ها از مواد اولیه تجاری مشتقات دو آمینو فنول و ?-هالو کتون های آروماتیک در مایع یونی 1-اکتیل-3-متیل ایمیدازولیوم تترا فلورو بورات([omim]bf4) سنتز شده است. این واکنش توسط باز پتاسیم کربنات محلول از طریق o-آلکیلاسیون و سپس یک واکنش آمیداسیون درون مولکولی خود بخود در مدت زمان کوتاه انجام می شود. ترکیبات 4،1-بنزوکسازین به این روش با بهره خوب تا آلی ...

Tomato Fruit Quality from Organic and Conventional Production