Vegetable Grafting: A Multiple Crop Improvement Methodology

Edamame: A Nutritious Vegetable Crop

Edamame, also called mao dou in China, is a large-seeded (seed dry wt. >250 mg/seed) green vegetable soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr., Fabaceae] cooked and served in pods as snack-like peanuts (Arachis hypogaea) (Shurtleff 2001). In Asia, where edamame is an important vegetable (Fig. 1), farmers harvest stems with fresh green pods before full maturity when pods are fully filled, nearly 80% matur...

Vegetable Grafting – A Tool to Improve Vegetable Productivity

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com vegetables and flowers. Practicing of grafting in vegetable crops is an exclusive tool in East Asia to manage various vulnerable issues to the intensive vegetable production. In this regard, the first scientific report of vegetable grafting was published during late 1920 in Japan Journal of Horticulture [1]. This study was designed to control soil b...

Sustainable vegetable crop supply problem

We consider an agricultural production problem, in which one must supply a given demand of crops while respecting ecologically-based production constraints. The problem is twofold: in order to supply the demand, one must determine the division of the available heterogeneous arable areas in plots and, for each plot, obtain an appropriate crop rotation schedule. Rotation plans must respect ecolog...

Vegetable Grafting: A Toolbox for Securing Yield Stability under Multiple Stress Conditions

stress- strength reliability improvement using multiple response surface methodology

in design of experiments, analysis and identifying those variables that affect the outputs are of interest. response surface methodology is a mathematical-statistical method to optimize the experiment outputs. this method tries to find the best response levels by optimizing the design variables called factors. in many engineering applications, robust design has become the most important issues....