India has an ancient heritage of floriculture, still, 98.5% flowers are grown under open cultivation and hardly 1.5% in a greenhouse. Commercial floriculture is now recognized as important sector with the potential for generating employment earning valuable foreign exchange. There been tremendous growth demand consumption products last two decades. The research study was conducted Ujjain distri...

The rust fungi (Uredinales, Basidiomycota) are an expansive and diverse group of fungal species, consisting of approximately 7000 different species in over 160 different genera. Fungi of the genus Puccinia represent a large proportion of these rust fungi, many species of which are well known for their role in causing massive yield and subsequent economic losses in agricultural crops worldwide. ...

Oncidium 'Gower Ramsey' is a valuable and successful commercial orchid for the floriculture industry in Taiwan. However, no genome reference for entire sequences of the transcribed genes currently exists for Oncidium orchids, to facilitate the development of molecular biological studies and the breeding of these orchids. In this study, we generated Oncidium cDNA libraries for six different orga...

The slow adoption pace of new control strategies for sustainable greenhouse climate control by industrial growers, is mainly due to the complexity of identifying and resolving potentially conflicting climate control requirements. In this paper, we present a multi-agent-based climate control system that allows new control strategies to be adopted without any need to identify or resolve conflicts...

The resistance levels to alpha-cypermethrin, bifenthrin, pirimiphos-methyl, endosulfan and imidacloprid were determined in Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) from Crete. Five B tabaci populations collected from greenhouse and outdoor crops were bioassayed and compared with a reference susceptible strain. Bemisia tabaci collected in a floriculture greenhouse exhibited the highest resistance against all ...

Technological advances have played a critical role in the production of flower crops, enabling farmers to maximize yields and reduce losses while also improving quality flowers. These included development new breeding techniques, such as molecular marker-assisted breeding, use modern technologies like high-throughput phenotyping identify select superior cultivars. In addition, precision farming...