The use of agronomic practices in integrated pest management programmes in horticulture

The use of agronomic practices in integrated pest management programmes in horticultureIPM promotes the design of resilient systems that reduce both pest attacks and damage to cultivated plants. It is based on practices that foster plant tolerance and the control of pests by their natural enemies. The challenge is to combine those practices in a coherent system that should associate the benefits or even develop synergies among their identified partial effects and that should be operable for the farmer. The IPM practices considered in

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A case study in the divergent evolution of Mexico’s Zapotec and Mixtec civilizations

Focussing on professional politicians Klaus Stolz investigates the interrelationship between political career patterns and political institutions in two of the most widely discussed cases of regionalism: Catalonia and Scotland

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It has long been recognized that the development rate and yield of soybean are sensitive to temperature and photoperiod