South Florida Gardening Calendar by Sydney Park Brown

“…In March, plant warm-season vegetables, such as sweet corn, cucumber, watermelon, and pepper, for late spring harvest. …”
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Tomato Cultivar Selection Considerations for Open-Field and Protected Culture in North Florida by Blake R. Thaxton, Robert C. Hochmuth

“… Tomatoes represent one of the most popular vegetables grown in protected culture such as greenhouses, high tunnels, or shade houses. …”
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A Farm to School Procurement Calculator for Specialty Crop Producers and School Food Service Staff by Jonathan A. Watson, Danielle Treadwell, Ray Bucklin, Anna Prizzia, Kelli Brew

“…General calculators and guides designed for national Farm to School programs don’t address Florida’s diverse production of fresh fruits and vegetables. This procurement calculator and guide for Florida Farm to School programs was written by Jonathan A. …”
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Evaluation of Trachelium Cultivars as Cut Flowers by RongNa Liang, Brent K. Harbaugh

“…This trial evaluated 11 cultivars of Trachelium for cut flower production performance (vegetative and flowering characteristics) and postharvest longevity.  …”
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Automated Tree Detection Using Image Processing and Multisource Data by Grzegorz Dziczkowski, Barbara Probierz, Przemysław Juszczuk, Piotr Stefański, Tomasz Jach, Szymon Głowania, Jan Kozak

“…We developed a data pipeline for gathering and pre-processing information, including vegetation data and numerical land-cover models, which were used to derive a new method for tree detection. …”
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Unlocking the Potential of Technology: Estimating Nitrogen Requirement in Corn Using Optical Sensors by Lakesh K. Sharma, Diego A. H. de S. Leitão, Hardeep Singh

“…However, it is notable that comprehensive research endeavors addressing the efficacy of employing the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a predictive tool for corn grain yield in the specific context of Florida remain limited. …”
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Small Farm Food Safety, Fresh Produce—Part 2: The Buck Stops Here by Amy Simonne, Mickie E. Swisher, K. N. Moore, Kaylene Sattanno

“…The concepts are based on the FDA’s Guide to Minimized Microbial Food Safety Hazards for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables (FDA-GAPs). Part 2 consists of a group discussion based on four scenarios in which people obtained food poisoning. …”
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Prophets at loggerheads. Accusations of adultery in Jeremiah 239-15 by W. Wessels

“…The research also entertains the relation with the next set of verses (23:13-15) which explicitly mentions the worship of Baal, the vegetation god, as reason for the disloyalty. The false prophets, with their adulterous way of living, are part of a leadership that failed the people of Judah and Yahweh. …”
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A Rare Case of Persistent Bacteremia: Leadless Micra Pacemaker Endocarditis by Himax Patel, Sean Harrell, Haitham Hreibe, Musa Sharkawi, Wael AlJaroudi

“…In patients with leadless pacing system that is persistently bacteremic in the future, evaluation of the device with transesophageal echocardiogram or intracardiac echocardiography should be performed, and if vegetation is noted on the device, device extraction should highly be considered, along with empiric intravenous antibiotics. …”
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A Stink Bug Euschistus quadrator Rolston (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) by Sara A. Brennan, Joseph Eger, Oscar E. Liburd

“…Stink bugs cause injury to various fruits and vegetables by feeding, resulting in significant quality and yield loss. …”
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The therapeutic potential of apigenin against atherosclerosis by Xueqiang Jiang, Huimin Huang

“…Apigenin is a natural flavonoid abundantly found in fruits, vegetables, and medicinal plants. It possesses protective effects against cancer, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, etc. …”
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A Stink Bug Euschistus quadrator Rolston (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) by Sara A. Brennan, Joseph Eger, Oscar E. Liburd

“…Stink bugs cause injury to various fruits and vegetables by feeding, resulting in significant quality and yield loss. …”
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A Homeowner’s Guide to the Living Shoreline Permit Exemption Part 2: United States Army Corps of Engineers by Savanna C. Barry, Sara Martin, Eric Sparks

“… Living shorelines are coastal shoreline stabilization interventions that rely on natural elements such as native vegetation and oyster reefs to protect property. The US Army Corps of Engineers, among other entities, regulates the placement of living shorelines through a permitting process to ensure project activities do not conflict with the public interest. …”
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Leafcutting Bees, Megachilidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Megachilidae: Megachilinae) by David Serrano

“…Leafcutting bees are important pollinators of wildflowers, fruits, vegetables and other crops. Leafcutting bees, Osmia spp. are even used as commercial pollinators (like honey bees) in crops such as alfalfa and blueberries. …”
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ER-GMMD: Cross-Scene Remote Sensing Classification Method of <italic>Tamarix chinensis</italic> in the Yellow River Estuary by Liying Zhu, Yabin Hu, Guangbo Ren, Na Qiao, Ziyue Meng, Jianbu Wang, Yajie Zhao, Shibao Li, Yi Ma

“…<italic>Tamarix chinensis</italic> exhibits a wide distribution that is difficult to capture within a single remote sensing image, while its frequent interspersion with other vegetation results in significant intermixing. The characteristics of mixed <italic>tamarix chinensis</italic> vary substantially across remote sensing images from different scenarios, and spectral confusion further complicates the process. …”
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Gas Chromatography Coupled to High Resolution Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry as a High-Throughput Tool for Characterizing Geochemical Biomarkers in Sediments by Hector Henrique Ferreira Koolen, Clécio Fernando Klitzke, Joe Binkley, Jeffrey Patrick, Ana Cecília Rizatti de Albergaria-Barbosa, Rolf Roland Weber, Márcia Caruso Bícego, Marcos Nogueira Eberlin, Giovana Anceski Bataglion

“…Sediments deposited before opening of channel showed dominance of biomarkers from mangrove vegetation, whereas sediments of the pos-opening period showed an increase of biomarkers from aquatic macrophyte (an invasive vegetation).…”
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Potential 2050 distributions of World Terrestrial Ecosystems from projections of changes in World Climate Regions and Global Land Cover by Roger Sayre, Charlie Frye, Sean Breyer, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Paul R. Elsen, Kevin Butler, Clint Brown, Jill Cress, Deniz Karagulle, Madeline Martin, Florencia Sangermano, Regan L. Smyth, Terry L. Sohl, Nicholas H. Wolff, Dawn J. Wright, Zhouting Wu

“…For the three SSP scenarios (sustainable development, regional rivalry, and fossil-fueled development), geographic changes in climate setting (temperature, aridity, or both) and/or changes in vegetation/land cover are projected for 29 %, 36 %, and 39 % of Earth’s terrestrial surface, respectively. …”
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Nest Site Selection by Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas) and Implications for Conservation on Qilianyu, Xisha Islands, South China Sea by Ting Zhang, Xiaoyu An, Chenglong Zhang, Yunteng Liu, Yupei Li, Yangfei Yu, Jichao Wang, Liu Lin, Hai‐Tao Shi

“…Green sea turtle nests were concentrated at a distance of 20.1–30 m from the high tide line, with a preferred distance from vegetation of 0–0.5 m. The vegetation cover of successful nests was concentrated in the range of 0%–25%, and the preferred sand types for successful nests were coarse sand (0.425–1 mm) and medium sand (0.250–0.425 mm). …”
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A flux tower site attribute dataset intended for land surface modeling by J. Shi, H. Yuan, W. Lin, W. Dong, H. Liang, Z. Liu, J. Zeng, H. Zhang, N. Wei, Z. Wei, S. Zhang, S. Liu, X. Lu, Y. Dai

“…More importantly, these datasets frequently lack site-observed attribute data, such as fractional vegetation cover and leaf area index, which limits their utility as benchmarking data. …”
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The impact of drought on forest spring phenology in northern China by Haowen Hu, Pengcheng Xue, Shaodong Huang, Zong Wang, Nina Xiong, Liang Shi, Boyi Liang, Jia Wang

“…Global warming is altering ecosystem function and productivity, with changes in vegetation phenology playing a crucial role. These changes are driven not only by rising temperatures but also by the increasing intensity and frequency of extreme events, particularly drought. …”
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