The existence of nickel (Ni) deficiency is becoming increasingly apparent in crops, especially for ureide-transporting woody perennials, but its physiological role is poorly understood. We evaluated the concentrations of ureides, amino acids, and organic acids in photosynthetic foliar tissue from Ni-sufficient (Ni-S) versus Ni-deficient (Ni-D) pecan (Carya illinoinensis [Wangenh.] K. Koch). Fol...

Abstract Seed physiology of 15 Eucalyptus species interest for cut foliage plantations was unknown and therefore evaluated. The viability vigour seeds germination potential determined by using a tetrazolium (TZ) staining test, the results were compared to test. In separate experiment, each lot subjected either 0 or 4-week cold stratification at 4 ± 1 °C investigate their requirement. After stra...

Secondary microbial invasion of tomato plants inoculated with 6,000 Meloidogyne incognita larvae caused 75 and 48% weight reduction of foliage and roots, respectively. Under aseptic conditions the same number of larvae caused only 37% reduction of foliage and increased root weight by 50%.

We describe the calibration and structure of a multi-species, two-scale light transmission model, and demonstrate its effectiveness for predicting instantaneous light availability at the stand scale across a wide range of forest stand compositions. The model, MIXLIGHT, calculates light transmission through the forest overstory at the stand or microsite scale using standard forest inventory data...

Estimates suggest that perhaps 40% of all invertebrate species are found in tropical rainforest canopies. Extrapolations of total diversity and food web analyses have been based almost exclusively on species inhabiting the foliage, under the assumption that foliage samples are representative of the entire canopy. We examined the validity of this assumption by comparing the density of invertebra...

We examined photosynthetic characteristics of two fast- and two slow-growing half-sib families of both loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) and slash pine (Pinus elliottii var. elliottii Engelm.) on two sites in northern Florida to: (1) quantify variation in light-saturated net photosynthesis (Amax) associated with vertical crown position and foliage age; (2) quantify the amount and distribution of l...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Band 4 Foliage-height diversity Horizontal vegetation structure Image texture Infrared air photo Landsat NDVI Wildlife habitat Ecologists commonly collect data on vegetation structure, which is an important attribute for characterizing habitat. However, measuring vegetation structure across large areas is logistically difficult. Our goal was to evaluate the degre...

1. Neonate evergreen bagworms, Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis (Haworth) (Lepidoptera: Psychidae), disperse by dropping on a strand of silk, termed silking, and ballooning on the wind. Larvae construct silken bags with fragments of plant foliage. This species is highly polyphagous, feeding on more than 125 species of woody plants of 45 families. The larvae commonly infests juniper (Juniperus spp....

Foliar ozone uptake rates of different-sized black cherry (Prunus serotina Ehrh.) trees were compared within a deciduous forest and adjacent openings in north-central Pennsylvania during one growing season. Study trees included open-grown seedlings and saplings, forest understory seedlings and saplings, and sunlit and shaded portions of mature canopy tree crowns. Instantaneous ozone uptake rate...