Snap beans are the vegetable form of dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) with low fiber, stringless and round, succulent pods that are eaten in the immature stage. Seed companies commit significant resources to maintaining purity and uniformity of snap bean cultivars. While some variability may be introduced through outcrossing (beans...
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Human activity has been shown to considerably affect the spread of dangerous pests and pathogens worldwide. Therefore,
strict regulations of international trade exist for particularly harmful pathogenic organisms. Phytophthora plurivora, which is
not subject to regulations, is a plant pathogen frequently found on a broad range of host species, both...
The 20-year US GLOBEC (Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics)
program examined zooplankton populations and their predators in four coastal
marine ecosystems. Program scientists learned that environmental controls on
zooplankton vital rates, especially the timing and magnitude of reproduction, growth,
life-cycle progression, and mortality, determine species population dynamics,
seasonal and spatial distributions,...