St. Augustinegrass [Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walter) Kuntze] is a turfgrass extensively used in managed landscapes Florida and throughout the southeastern United States. To develop cultivars with broad adaptation, it necessary to understand effect of genotype × environment interactions. The objective this study was estimate genetic parameters for coverage, turf quality (TQ), color (TC) multienv...

fore be helpful to develop sugarcane cultivars that produce high yields with less P fertilizer or cultivars that Rapid screening for high leaf P concentration may help sugarcane take up more soil P. Sugarcane in the EAA obtains 30 (interspecific hybrids of Saccharum spp.) growers in the Everglades Agricultural Area reduce P in discharge water, an important compoto 85% of its total P from soil P...

This study was carried out to determine mite species on blackberry plants (Rubus spp. (Rosaceae)) in Florida and Georgia, USA, differences between organic conventional plantings the area sampled. Surveys were conducted commercial from June October 2016. Leaf samples collected monthly nine different cultivars including ‘Arapaho’, ‘Choctaw’, ‘Freedom’, ‘Kiowa’, ‘Natchez’, ‘Navaho’, ‘Osage’, ‘Ouac...

Muscadinia rotundifolia is a wild grape native to the Southeast U.S. In field trials, as well as in the wild, this species exhibits strong resistance to Pierce’s disease (PD). Incorporating this resistance into Vitis vinifera production systems in California will require identifying prime breeding material and increasing our understanding of the mechanism of resistance. The first objective of t...

Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) in south Florida is often subjected to flooding due to intense summer rainfall or tropical storms. While there has been considerable research on the response of sugarcane cultivars to high water tables, there is a lack of information on cultivar morphological adaptation to long-term flooding. An experiment was established in Belle Glade, FL to examine: (i) effects of ...

Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is routinely exposed to periodic floods and highwater tables in Florida’s EvergladesAgriculturalArea. Learning sugarcane responses to these conditions will help improve yields. This study evaluated the effects of constant water-table depths, periodic floods, and N on cane and sucrose yields of two sugarcane cultivars. In 2001 and 2002, two foliar N and four water trea...

Estimates of survival for the young of a species are critical for population models. These models can often be improved by determining the effects of management actions and population abundance on this demographic parameter. We used multiple sources of data collected during 1982-2008 and a live recapture-dead recovery modeling framework to estimate and model survival of Florida panther (Puma co...

Phytoremediation is an emerging technology that uses various plants to degrade, extract, contain, or immobilize contaminants from soil and water. Certain fern and Indian mustard species have been suggested as candidates for phytoremediation of heavy metal-contaminated soil and water because of their high efficiency of accumulating metals in shoots and their high biomass production. Currently, n...

Bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.) is a forage and turf crop commonly used worldwide. The USDA bermudagrass germplasm set composed of plant introductions (PI’s) collected around the world contains different Cynodon species, primarily C. dactylon. collection was screened in replicated trial Florida for yield, leaf width, nutritive value (NV), Stem Maggot (Atherigona reversura) (BSM), which an invasive ...