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10/17/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Controlling the soil-borne fungus Verticillium dahliae using natural approaches

American researchers tackled the means by which the spread of the pathogenic soil fungus Verticillium dahliae could be managed through natural means. They envisioned an approach where farmers would avoid planting infected seeds and instead cultivate broccoli crops that are immune to Verticillium wilt. The University of California supported this review. The researchers published their efforts in the […]

01/11/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Grape growers can increase the nutrients in their wine by removing leaves early, though it does decrease crop size

A recent study concerning the effects of early leaf removal on grape yield has uncovered that wine that is derived from early defoliated grapes tend to have more nutrients than those that were not. The negative side of this is, grapes that have encountered early leaf removal tend to be smaller in size. In the […]

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