Floriculture and Landscape management is a Curricular Unit (CU) that makes part of the BSc Degree course in Crops Livestock Engineering (DCLE) at Coimbra Agriculture School, belonging to Polytechnic Institute Coimbra, Portugal. It an important subject flower industry as it occupies third place agricultural production Portugal, after viticulture arable crops. Teaching floriculture challenging st...

Flowers have held and eminent place in human's life socially, economically aesthetically. Globally edible flower gained popularity as it add nutritional, medicinal well aesthetics appearance to our plate. can be used Inadding aroma, flavor color, also decorating preparing food drinks. However, the chemical composition of flowers must known before human consumption. Traditionally we rose, marigo...

Ophiopogon japonicus is a perennial, ornamental foliage plant, whichbelongs to the family Liliaceae. It has a high demand in the local andinternational export market due to the presence of glossy white-green stripped lanceolate leaves. Improved leaves and plants of O. japonicus will be more popular in the floriculture industry. Hence, objective was to investigate the growth responses of O. japo...

Micronucleus (MN) is a biomarker widely used in biomonitoring studies carried out to determine the genetic risk associated to pesticide exposure. Many in vitro and in vivo studies, as well as epidemiological approaches, have demonstrated the ability of certain chemical pesticides to produce genetic effects including cancer and other chronic pathologies in humans; thus, biomonitoring studies hav...

Abstract Violent coniflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption. This paper studies how firms react to electoral violence using the case Kenyan ower exporters during 2008 post-election as an example. The induced large negative supply shock that reduced exports primarily through workers' absence had heterogeneous effects: larger th...