American Vegetable Grower November 2017
In This Issue
Field Scouting Guide: Yellow Nutsedge
Follow these tips to identify and manage this wily weed.
Meet the Vegetable Industry’s Biggest Dreamers
Plant breeders live in the future, always on the hunt of developing bullet-proof, tasty selections. Here are a few of the idealists among us.
10 Onions You Should Know About
Want to add new onions to your production? Check out these 10 varieties!
Different Ways Vegetable Breeders Embrace Seed Diversity
Vegetable plant breeders have a lot of options when it comes to developing new varieties — disease resistance, […]
Two Plant Breeders Reflect on Building Disease Resistance into New Varieites
Smart breeders not only build in resistance to current diseases, they look at which diseases are on the […]
Vegetable Breeding for Timing Is only Part of the Picture
Early and late season varieties give growers flexibility and allow them to sequence crops so harvest crews have steady work over a longer period. But those varieties also need other traits like disease resistance and taste.
Taste Is Back on the Front Burner for Vegetable Breeders
In the pursuit for solving some of the biggest problems for growers, breeders have sometimes ignored flavor. Here are two breeders who have made taste a top priority.
Plant Breeding Is a Key Part of Precision Agriculture’s Future [Opinion]
One theme that stood out during the vegetable seed trials this past summer was how much breeders are keeping future automation in mind.
A Plant Breeder Explains How GE Techniques Differ from Non-GMO Breeding
Bejo Seeds Senior Tomato Breeder Doug Heath says modern plant breeding techniques give breeders the tools they need to solve growers’ challenges.
Plant Disease Research Can Learn a Lot from Medicine
Cancer research and plant disease control strategies are based on common principles.
Vegetable Breeders Making Major Disease Resistance Breakthroughs
VoloAgri’s Felix Serquen and Seminis’ Bill McCarthy have delivered major disease-resistance advancements, much to the relief of tomato and pepper growers everywhere.
Are You a Precision Grower?
Gathering, analysis, and application still seems to be the best basic definition of precision agriculture.