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Evaluation Of Spring Frost Control Methods And An Assessment Of Cold Hardiness In Cranberry (Vaccinium Macrocarporn Ait.), Faith Ndlovu Nov 2015

Evaluation Of Spring Frost Control Methods And An Assessment Of Cold Hardiness In Cranberry (Vaccinium Macrocarporn Ait.), Faith Ndlovu

Doctoral Dissertations

The American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon Ait.) is an important temperate woody shrub crop whose fruit has human health benefits. Cranberry acquires cold hardiness in the autumn and loses it in spring, following deacclimation. Frost protection is necessary in cranberry production as a means to reduce bud damage due to low spring temperatures. The objectives of the field studies were to evaluate two methods of sprinkler irrigation for frost protection, the conventional approach consisting of continuous irrigation throughout the night (CON) and intermittent cycling of sprinklers (INT) incorporating cycling on and off throughout the night, by (i) assessing bud damage …


Assessing Kiln-Produced Hardwood Biochar For Improving Soil Health In A Temperate Climate Agricultural Soil, Emily J. Cole Nov 2015

Assessing Kiln-Produced Hardwood Biochar For Improving Soil Health In A Temperate Climate Agricultural Soil, Emily J. Cole

Doctoral Dissertations

Soil quality has become a major factor used in assessing sustainable land management and the overall environmental quality, food security, and economic viability of agricultural lands. Recently, biochar has been touted as having many potential uses as a soil amendment for improving soil quality, specifically improving cation exchange capacity, pH and nutrient availability. However, soil biology also plays a significant role in biogeochemical processes that influence soil health and should be included in a more comprehensive study of soil health. This dissertation describes 4 projects within the same 3-year field study with the cumulative purpose of better understanding the effect …


Effects Of Overexpression Of Sap12 And Sap13 In Providing Tolerance To Multiple Abiotic Stresses In Plants, Parul R. Tomar Nov 2015

Effects Of Overexpression Of Sap12 And Sap13 In Providing Tolerance To Multiple Abiotic Stresses In Plants, Parul R. Tomar

Doctoral Dissertations

Environmental stresses are the one of the main reasons for the decline of crop production worldwide. In the past years, a major focus has been on improving plant species and their tolerance towards these stresses but not much has been achieved because of the limited knowledge of the gene/network of genes that might be involved in providing tolerance to such multiple abiotic stresses. Recently, members of Stress Associated Protein (SAP) family in plants have been shown to impart tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses. There are 14 SAP genes in Arabidopsis thaliana and these proteins contain A20, AN1 and C2H2 zinc …


Rnai Mediated Silencing Of Cell Wall Invertase Inhibitors To Increase Sucrose Allocation To Sink Tissues In Transgenic Camelina Sativa Engineered With A Carbon Concentrating Mechanism, Joshua Zuber Jul 2015

Rnai Mediated Silencing Of Cell Wall Invertase Inhibitors To Increase Sucrose Allocation To Sink Tissues In Transgenic Camelina Sativa Engineered With A Carbon Concentrating Mechanism, Joshua Zuber

Masters Theses

Plant invertases are a class of proteins that have enzymatic function in cleaving sucrose to fructose and glucose. Cell wall invertase, located on the exterior of the cell wall of plant cells, plays a key role in the unloading of sucrose from the apoplast to the sink tissues. Cell wall invertase interacts with an inhibitor, cell wall invertase inhibitor, post-transcriptionally to regulate its activity. The inhibitor is constitutively expressed in pollen development, early developing seeds, and senescing leaves: indicative of sucrose allocation being a limiting factor at these stages of development. We introduced algal bicarbonate transporters LCIA/CCP1 to Camelina sativa …


Poverty Grass: Biology And Management, Hilary A. Sandler Jul 2015

Poverty Grass: Biology And Management, Hilary A. Sandler

Cranberry Station Fact Sheets

No abstract provided.


Backpack Spray Calibration Fact Sheet, Hilary A. Sandler Jun 2015

Backpack Spray Calibration Fact Sheet, Hilary A. Sandler

Cranberry Station Fact Sheets

No abstract provided.


2015 Pesticide Safety: Cost Cutting Ipm, Hilary A. Sandler, Martha Sylvia Apr 2015

2015 Pesticide Safety: Cost Cutting Ipm, Hilary A. Sandler, Martha Sylvia

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2015 Pesticide Safety: Pesticide Safety Review 2015, Martha Sylvia Apr 2015

2015 Pesticide Safety: Pesticide Safety Review 2015, Martha Sylvia

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2015 Pesticide Safety: Insect Update, Martha Sylvia Apr 2015

2015 Pesticide Safety: Insect Update, Martha Sylvia

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2015 Pesticide Safety: Fruit Rot Management, Erika Saalau Rojas Apr 2015

2015 Pesticide Safety: Fruit Rot Management, Erika Saalau Rojas

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2015 Pesticide Safety: Resistance Management, Martha Sylvia, Hilary A. Sandler, Erika Saalau Rojas Apr 2015

2015 Pesticide Safety: Resistance Management, Martha Sylvia, Hilary A. Sandler, Erika Saalau Rojas

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2015 Pesticide Safety: Farm Safety, Hilary A. Sandler Apr 2015

2015 Pesticide Safety: Farm Safety, Hilary A. Sandler

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2015 Pesticide Safety: Weed Research Update, Katherine Ghantous, Hilary A. Sandler Apr 2015

2015 Pesticide Safety: Weed Research Update, Katherine Ghantous, Hilary A. Sandler

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2015 Pesticide Safety: Adjuvants: Improving Herbicide Performance, Hilary A. Sandler Apr 2015

2015 Pesticide Safety: Adjuvants: Improving Herbicide Performance, Hilary A. Sandler

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2015 Pesticide Safety: Understnding Gmo's, Geoffrey Njue Apr 2015

2015 Pesticide Safety: Understnding Gmo's, Geoffrey Njue

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


Thermocycle-Regulated Wall Regulator Interacting Bhlh Encodes A Protein That Interacts With Secondary-Cell-Wall-Associated Transcription Factors, Ian P. Whitney Mar 2015

Thermocycle-Regulated Wall Regulator Interacting Bhlh Encodes A Protein That Interacts With Secondary-Cell-Wall-Associated Transcription Factors, Ian P. Whitney

Masters Theses

Lignocellulosic biomass is one of the most abundant raw materials on earth that can be utilized to created carbon-neutral biofuels as a replacement for conventional fossil fuels. In order to create ideal energy crops, the regulation and deposition of cell wall polysaccharides must first be fully understood. Improved understanding of cell wall regulation will enable selection of traits that can optimize biofuel feedstocks. Herein, I utilize the grass model system Brachypodium distachyon in order to understand the transcriptional regulation of secondary cell wall deposition. Gene expression profiling was used to elucidate transcription factors that regulate secondary cell wall biosynthesis. Through …


Efficient Irrigation For Recreational Turfgrass In New England: Evapotranspiration And Crop Coefficients, James W. Poro Mar 2015

Efficient Irrigation For Recreational Turfgrass In New England: Evapotranspiration And Crop Coefficients, James W. Poro

Masters Theses

As water demand increases it will become more imperative for golf course superintendents, landscape managers, and other industry professionals to improve water use efficiency in the management of recreational turfgrass. Scheduling irrigation according to actual turfgrass evapotranspiration rates (ETT) is an integral component of efficient irrigation practices. Impracticality of field derived ETT for industry use, however, directs the need of weather station derived reference (predicted) evapotranspiration (ET0). To accurately predict (estimate) ETT of turf and other crops, scientifically derived landscape (crop) coefficients (Kc values) are used in conjunction with mathematical models that incorporate …


2015 Chartbook: Pesticide Storage, Hilary A. Sandler Mar 2015

2015 Chartbook: Pesticide Storage, Hilary A. Sandler

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

No abstract provided.


2015 Chart Book: Late Water, Anne Averill, Carolyn J. Demoranville, Hilary Sandler Mar 2015

2015 Chart Book: Late Water, Anne Averill, Carolyn J. Demoranville, Hilary Sandler

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

No abstract provided.


2015 Chart Book: Irrigation Water Management, Peter Jeranyama Mar 2015

2015 Chart Book: Irrigation Water Management, Peter Jeranyama

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

No abstract provided.


2015 Chartbook: Winter Management, Carolyn J. Demoranville Mar 2015

2015 Chartbook: Winter Management, Carolyn J. Demoranville

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

No abstract provided.


2015 Chart Book: Insect Management At-A-Glance, Martha Sylvia Mar 2015

2015 Chart Book: Insect Management At-A-Glance, Martha Sylvia

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

No abstract provided.


2015 Chart Book: Nutrition, Carolyn J. Demoranville Mar 2015

2015 Chart Book: Nutrition, Carolyn J. Demoranville

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

No abstract provided.


2015 Chart Book: Disease Management At-A-Glance, Erika Saalau Rojas Mar 2015

2015 Chart Book: Disease Management At-A-Glance, Erika Saalau Rojas

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

No abstract provided.


2015 Chart Book: Weed Management At-A-Glance, Hilary A. Sandler, Katherine M. Ghantous Mar 2015

2015 Chart Book: Weed Management At-A-Glance, Hilary A. Sandler, Katherine M. Ghantous

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

No abstract provided.


2015 Chart Book: Pesticide Application Recordkeeping, Martha Sylvia Mar 2015

2015 Chart Book: Pesticide Application Recordkeeping, Martha Sylvia

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

No abstract provided.


2015 Chart Book: Index, Carolyn J. Demoranville Mar 2015

2015 Chart Book: Index, Carolyn J. Demoranville

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

No abstract provided.


2015 Chart Book: Measures And Conversions, Hilary A. Sandler Mar 2015

2015 Chart Book: Measures And Conversions, Hilary A. Sandler

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

No abstract provided.


2015 Chart Book: Groundwater Protection Regulations & Zone Ii, Martha Sylvia Mar 2015

2015 Chart Book: Groundwater Protection Regulations & Zone Ii, Martha Sylvia

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

No abstract provided.


2015 Chart Book: Insect Management, Anne Averill Mar 2015

2015 Chart Book: Insect Management, Anne Averill

Cranberry Chart Book - Management Guide

No abstract provided.