A Comprehensive Review of the Effects of Mulching The following is excerpted from “Impact of Mulches on Landscape Plants and the Environment—A Review,” by Linda Chalker-Scott (Washington State University, Puyallup Research and Extension Center, 7612 Pioneer Way E., Puyallup, WA 98371), Journal of Environmental Horticulture 25(4), December 2007, 239249, published by the Horticultural Research In...

Department of Horticultural Science (V.S.B., X.W., S.K.M., S.K., G.A., S.D.C.) and Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry (R.K.B., M.B.G.), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695; Plant and Crop Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom (E.L.W.); East Malling Research, East Malling, Kent ME19 6BJ, United Kingdom (G.J.B.); and Uni...

this research aims to evaluate the effects of seed scarification on five perennialastragalus species including a. effusus, a. vegetus, a. subsecundus, a. brevidens and a.cyclophyllon in the field conditions. seeds were sown after scarification with sandpaper byhand in the field of homand absard rangeland research station, damavand, iran in autumnin 2008. the seeds were sown using split plot des...

The Stazione Zoologica [2] Anton Dohrn (Anton Dohrn Zoological Station) is a public research institute focusing on biology and biodiversity. Hereafter called the Station, it was founded in Naples, Italy, in 1872 by Anton Dohrn. The type of research conducted at the Station has varied since it was created, though initial research focused on embryology [3]. At the turn of the twentieth century, r...

Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Knoxville, TN, USA, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Morgantown, WV, USA, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Asheville, NC, USA, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Research Triangle Pa...

we present new whole major and trace elements data for a suite of adakitic dacite to rhyolite rocks from the sahand region. these rocks formed in the pliocene to pleistocene during the the collision between the arabian and eurasian plates following subduction of neo–tethys ocean. these subvolcanic intrusions were emplaced into late cretaceous and eocene sedimentary، volcano–clastic and volcanic...

The production and marketing of horticultural crops is undergoing continuous change globally. This is due to the growing demands of consumers for safe and healthy foods, increased urbanisation of societies, the growth in scale and influence of supermarkets, the corporatisation of farming, changes in the availability of labour and the low priority given to food production by governments. Horticu...

Human awareness of plants in Australia goes back 50,000 years when the aboriginal first began using plants to treat, clothe and feed themselves. The European influence came in 1778 with the First Fleet landing in New South Wales. Australia’s earliest records of using horticulture for therapy and rehabilitation were in institutions for people with intellectual disabilities or who were incarcerat...

a Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, PO Box 12254, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA b Forest Economics and Policy Work Unit, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, PO Box 12254, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA c Goods, Services, and Values Program, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 620...