Questions tagged [agriculture]
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Impact of latitude on agriculture?
I live in southern California, where the difference between seasons is mild, and the dominant limitation on agriculture is the lack of water. (Spring is whenever it rains, not a place on the calendar.)
In my early education, as is usual, I learned…
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How does inbreeding depression cause infertility?
My textbook states that repetitive self-pollination in the plants cause inbreeding depression which causes infertility thus plants develop techniques called outbreeding devices to encourage outcrossing. My question is how does inbreeding depression…
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Utilising Mycorrhizal Association
We know that mycorrhizal association helps the plant to absorb nutrients.
Why can't this association be exploited in agriculture ?
Can't we add spores of the specific fungi to specific plant and enjoy the benefit of this association as we would not…
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Can we graft a tree with cells from the seed directly?
Are there any limitation to the grafting so we could only graft a branch to another tree? Could we just use cell from the seed, or just a sprout, to graft onto the tree of the same species?
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growth stages of Maize
I am reading about growth stages in Maize and found this image.
I downloaded a brochure of a maize variety grown in Brazil.
On the right column, it says male flowering 63 days after planting (947 degree days) and female flowering 63.5 days after…
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How many kg of seed can one expect from 230 kg of cotton fiber?
So I'm working with data from recent cotton harvest from a seed company. They're more interested in cotton seed than the fiber itself. I'm trying to come up with seed yield numbers for an array of cultivars but the data I was given came in kg of…
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