Basic Information on Vegetable Brassica Crops

2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 1223 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. C. Donald ◽  
I. J. Porter ◽  
R. A. Lancaster

Commercially suitable methods for application of fluazinam were evaluated in field trials conducted in Victoria and Western Australia. Incorporation of fluazinam into the soil in bands 23 cm wide along the transplant row (to a depth of about 15–20 cm) immediately before transplanting was the most effective method of application. Plants grown in soil treated in this way developed significantly less clubroot than when fluazinam was applied using either a spot drench (100 mL/plant) or a continuous spray over the plants immediately after transplanting. The banded soil incorporation treatment consistently increased the marketable yield of broccoli and cauliflower. In one trial, banded soil incorporation increased the marketable yield of both crops by at least 80% compared with the other commercial methods of application currently in use. The banded soil incorporation treatment was more reliable and effective in a range of soil types than the high volume drenches currently used. This method of application remained effective, significantly reducing clubroot severity, when the volume of water used to apply fluazinam was reduced by 80% from 2500 to 500 L/ha.


2011 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 282-282
Author(s):  
F.H. MacDonald ◽  
M.K. Walker ◽  
G.P. Walker

Scaptomyza flava (Diptera Drosophilidae) known as European leaf miner has recently been identified as the pest species causing major damage to seed and other brassica crops grown in the South Island This pest is particularly damaging to hybrid Asian brassica seed crops but is also a major pest of seedlings of radish turnip and broccoli plants A larval/pupal parasitoid Asobara persimilis (Hymenoptera Braconidae) is an effective natural enemy of S flava at Pukekohe at certain times of the year A project funded by MAF Sustainable Farming Fund involves massrearing the parasitoids in Auckland and releasing them in unsprayed brassica crops in Canterbury and North Otago A total of 6550 pupae and 760 emerged adults were released over fortnightly periods at 46 sites from October 2010 to April 2011 The pupae included about 80 parasitised pupae and 20 that were unparasitised as a source of hosts for emerging parasitoids Overwintering surveys and further releases are planned for 2011/12 to try and establish this natural enemy as part of the ongoing development of IPM tools for seed forage and vegetable brassica crops grown in the South Island


2006 ◽  
pp. 283-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.C. Donald ◽  
L.J. Porter ◽  
R. Faggian ◽  
R.A. Lancaster

Author(s):  
W. Bernard

In comparison to many other fields of ultrastructural research in Cell Biology, the successful exploration of genes and gene activity with the electron microscope in higher organisms is a late conquest. Nucleic acid molecules of Prokaryotes could be successfully visualized already since the early sixties, thanks to the Kleinschmidt spreading technique - and much basic information was obtained concerning the shape, length, molecular weight of viral, mitochondrial and chloroplast nucleic acid. Later, additonal methods revealed denaturation profiles, distinction between single and double strandedness and the use of heteroduplexes-led to gene mapping of relatively simple systems carried out in close connection with other methods of molecular genetics.


2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimír Slobodník ◽  
Roman Slobodník

The summary on raptors and owls ringing in Slovakia in 2009The article provides basic information about the number, species and recoveries of ringed birds of prey and owl species in Slovakia in 2009. The report follows similar papers from the following periods: 2002-2004, 2005-2006 and 2007-2008. In 2009 a total of 1,222 individuals were ringed in Slovakia, of which 856 individuals were birds of prey (18 species) and 366 individuals were owls (8 species). From the total number, 719 birds of prey and 257 owl nestlings were ringed. In comparison with the previous year the number of ringed birds of prey and owls increased by 43%.


Author(s):  
Рубен Косян ◽  
Ruben Kosyan ◽  
Viacheslav Krylenko ◽  
Viacheslav Krylenko

There are many types of coasts classifications that indicate main coastal features. As a rule, the "static" state of the coasts is considered regardless of their evolutionary features and ways to further transformation. Since the most part of the coastal zone studies aimed at ensuring of economic activity, it is clear that the classification of coast types should indicate total information required by the users. Accordingly, the coast classification should include the criterion, characterizing as dynamic features of the coast and the conditions and opportunities of economic activity. The coast classification, of course, should be based on geomorphological coast typification. Similar typification has been developed by leading scientists from Russia and can be used with minimal modifications. The authors propose to add to basic information (geomorphological type of coast) the evaluative part for each coast sector. It will include the estimation of the coast changes probability and the complexity of the coast stabilization for economic activity. This method will allow to assess the dynamics of specific coastal sections and the processes intensity and, as a result – the stability of the coastal area.


1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-239
Author(s):  
Néstor A. Campana ◽  
Eduardo M. Mendiondo ◽  
Carlos E. M. Tucci

A procedure for estimating hydrological parameters is presented which combines a) remote sensing and GIS techniques with b) data extracted from site visits to city districts; the estimate so obtained is compared with estimates from rainfall data. It is developed in urban sub-basins of Dilúvio Basin in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, Brazil. A Fuzzy Algorithm which performs within sub-pixel level is used. Cover classes studied are: highly and slightly impervious, bare ground, grassed open space, and forest. A soil thematic map is determined based on pedological studies. A final distributed thematic map of potential runoff is obtained by superimposing previous data. It is compared with lumped runoff potential from rainfall events in sub-basins. These broad multi-source data hold basic information to develop an alternative strategy for hydrologic studies in urban basins.


1996 ◽  
Vol 34 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 249-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong-Ying Hu ◽  
Mamie Nozawa ◽  
Koichi Fujie ◽  
Tsuyoshi Makabe ◽  
Kohei Urano

The population dynamics of microbes in the biological wastewater treatment processes such as a submerged biofilter was investigated to obtain basic information to determine the optimal operating conditions. The effects of coexistence of biodegradable substances such as glucose and peptone on the acclimation of microbes in the biofilm to hard chemicals such as acrylonitrile (AN), which is poorly biodegradable and a volatile substance, was investigated on the basis of the respiratory quinone profile. Kinetic study of the removal of AN in the course of acclimation of microbes was investigated using a laboratory-scale submerged biofilter as well. It was ascertained that the acclimation of the microbes to AN was accelerated by coexistence of biodegradable substances, and the microbial phase after acclimation differed from those with the coexistence of glucose and peptone. The quinone profiles in the acclimation showed that Brevibacterium sp. and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, of which the predominant quinone of the respiratory chain is menaquinone-8(H2) and ubiquinone-9, respectively, multiplied selectively in the acclimation course without and with the coexistence of glucose and peptone, respectively. It was also made clear that there were few kinds and number of protozoa and metazoa in the biofilter treating the wastewater containing AN.


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