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Production, Marketing, And Handling Practices To Export Mcintosh Apples To Central American Markets, Mildred L. Alvarado Herrera
Production, Marketing, And Handling Practices To Export Mcintosh Apples To Central American Markets, Mildred L. Alvarado Herrera
Doctoral Dissertations
Latin America offers a marketing opportunity for fresh produce, since many countries are entering into global integration and international trade as part of their portfolio of economic growth. However, to take full advantage of these opportunities, many questions associated with the implementation of marketing approaches, fresh produce quality retention, and profitability need be answered before undertaking this business opportunity. When it comes to developing countries such as those in Central America, and in particular - El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala - language, culture, technology, competitiveness, regulations, poverty, and other barriers become challenges to enter these markets successfully. In order to …
World Wide Diversity Of Phytophthora Capsici, Dylan B. Storey
World Wide Diversity Of Phytophthora Capsici, Dylan B. Storey
Doctoral Dissertations
The plant pathogen Phytophthora capsici is a genetically diverse organism that is a global problem. It effects many crops across the Solanacea, Cucurbitacea, andLeguminosea. As a result of the large diversity between individuals (and by extension populations) it has been previously near impossible to make meaningful comparisons between individuals of geographically distinct locations. Here we present the results of applying Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies to a representative panel of isolates. This information and data is further used to demonstrate how this diversity has a functionally relevent effect on a class of proteins responsible for the infectious process. We …