Foliar application of nitrogen (N) is used to supplement soil N application in order to meet high N requirements of crops (Oosterhuis, 1999). Urea is the most common foliar N source in cotton, due to its relatively low toxicity, quick absorption, and low cost (Maples and Baker, 1993; McConnell et al., 1998, Oosterhuis and Bondada, 2001). However in the literature, reports of yield increments wi...

of Malawi Not long after the explorer, medical missionary and anti-slavery campaigner Dr David Livingstone explored Lake Nyasa, now Lake Malawi, a wave of evangelising zeal saw the establishment of religious communities along the lake shore. One of those who went forth was an Anglican priest, Chauncy Maples. After 19 years, he was recalled to England to be appointed the Bishop of Nyasaland. It ...

Spring frosts can defoliate trees, reduce canopy carbon assimilation, and alter interspecific competition dynamics. These events may become more common with climate change, but our understanding of the associated ecological impacts is limited by stochastic nature their occurrences. In 2020, a late spring frost defoliated oak ( Quercus spp.), not co-occurring maples Acer spp.) across temperate b...

Both the heartwood and the sapwood of living hard maple trees, and to some extent of other hardwoods, of the Lake States and northeastern forests commonly are disfigured by deep olive or greenish black discolorations generally known as mineral stain or mineral streak. These may appear on sawed materials as individual lenticular streaks of various lengths paralleling the grain or as mass discolo...

Foliar fertilization with nitrogen (N) is used to supplement soil N application in order to meet the high N requirements of crops (Oosterhuis and Weir, 2010). Urea is the most common foliar N source in cotton, due to its relatively low toxicity, quick absorption, and low cost (Maples and Baker, 1993; McConnell et al., 1998; Oosterhuis and Bondada, 2001). However, in the literature reports of yi...