Greenhouse and commercial nursery crops require large amounts of good quality water. On average, the estimated daily water requirement is 22,000 gallons per acre for greenhouses and about 27,000 gallons per acre for nurseries. Because water is such an essential element, business operations need to maintain water sources of sufficient quantity and quality to grow …
Everything in nature has a balance and to a great extent that level of balance is very fragile, very narrow and can be easily compromised. In this article we will comment on some practices in agriculture that break the internal balance of the crop and that in many cases can have negative effects on agricultural …
Growth Regulators are substances that function in plant growth and are normally active at very low concentrations. Among these, we can differentiate those produced by the plant and those that are of synthetic origin. Those that the plant forms naturally are called phytohormones or plant hormones. Growth regulators are used for many purposes. They have …
Disease prediction Because the climate is changing, farmers must use fewer fungicides etc. due to economic or legal reasons. But some diseases are difficult to control and the exact timing of fungicide application is very important to keep diseases under control. For this, in agriculture 4.0, different prediction models for plant diseases are developed that …
Among the representative plant species in northwestern Mexico, Larrea tridentata known as “gobernadora” is an invaluable source of biologically active molecules, such as various secondary metabolites that have biocidal activity. In traditional herbal medicine, gobernadora extracts have been used as an antidote. In agriculture, this dominant shrub of the Sonoran desert is characterized by the …
Why do plants turn yellow? This is a question that any of us who are dedicated to the world of plants, whether farmers, gardeners or hobbyists of gardening and home gardens, have ever asked ourselves, and it is something common that usually occurs in some stage of our cultivation or in some season of the …
1. Plant Nutrition. It is well known that plants need nutrients to live, some in greater quantity and others in less quantity. The process by which the plant obtains from the environment (soil, water and atmosphere) the substances that are necessary to carry out its metabolic processes that allow it to: be born, grow and …
Pruning is a practice that regulates the vegetative and reproductive capacity of plants. This capacity is genetically defined by the variety and is strongly influenced by the rootstock and by the climate, soil and crop management conditions. Thus, in peach trees, pruning is, together with fruit thinning, the cultural practice with the highest incidence on …
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