Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
These digital collections include theses, dissertations, faculty publications and student publications from the Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture. Due to departmental name changes, materials from the following historical departments are also included here: Recreation Resources, Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism, and Horticulture.
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Chromosome races and polypoid cytoforms in Distichlis spicata
Saltgrass (Distichlis spicata [L.] Greene) is a salt-tolerant C4 grass native to the Americas that is currently being evaluated for use as a turfgrass species. Saltgrass has a highly variable morphology in different regional ... -
Post thinning interactions between lodgepole pine host physiology, growth, chemistry, and survival with mountain pine beetle
Bark beetle outbreaks have caused adverse economic and lumber deficiencies impacting 10.3 million ha since 2000 (Cochran and Barrett 1993; Fettig 2021; Lindgren and Raffa 2013). A common bark beetle management method is ... -
Influence of preharvest factors on peach fruit quality and metabolism
Worldwide peach consumption has been in steady decline throughout the past few decades due to poor fruit quality and consumer experiences. Fruit quality is developed in the orchard by optimizing preharvest factors and ... -
Estimation of capsaicinoid compounds and other nutritionally important compounds in Colorado grown pepper cultivars
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Minimizing the storage losses of potatoes under different storage treatments
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Variation in malt metabolite chemistry and impact on malt and beer flavor
Growing and malting barley are processes that are imperative to the production of beer and distilled spirits. The rise of craft malting and brewing have provided many opportunities for the "science and art" of manipulating ... -
Phytohormone effect on Pterocephalus depressus stock plant productivity and phytohormone accumulation and movement
Moroccan pincushion (Pterocephalus depressus) is a drought tolerant perennial that is being used in landscapes throughout arid areas of the western United States. Commercial producers have had difficulty in producing enough ... -
Characterizing acclimation of pansy and petunia to CO₂ enrichment for controlled environment production
While crops often respond immediately to enriched CO2 concentrations (e.g., increased photosynthesis), this initial response is often not sustained throughout production, reducing the benefit of this input. For horticulture ... -
Stock plant management of Lavandula angustifolia 'Wee One' using plant growth regulators and propagation techniques used to create optimal protocols for several Plant Select® species
Lavandula angustifolia 'Wee One' is a drought tolerant dwarf herbaceous perennial being promoted by Plant Select®. The increased demand for this herbaceous perennial has resulted in problems with stock plant management and ... -
Effects of plant-selected rhizobacterial communities on the drought resistance of tomato plants
Drought stress has had devastating effects for vegetable growers world-wide, leading to much recent research focusing on the development of drought-resilient crops. The importance of the rhizosphere microbiome in plant ... -
Cryopreservation and recovery of temperate fruit germplasm using dormant bud technology
Cryopreservation of dormant budwood allows for the efficient processing and long-term storage of some temperate deciduous genetic resources and holds promise for the secure storage of countless others. The method is of ... -
Evaluation of yield and quality characteristics for vegetable crops grown under organic management in Fort Collins, Colorado, An
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Elucidating rhizobacterial response to autoclave disruption and crop introduction within three distinct agricultural soils
Management practices can affect the soil health properties of an agroecosystem, in turn effecting the resident soil microbial community. Insights toward how managerial practices effect soil microbial rearrangements are ... -
Assessment of methods to screen for carotenoids in yellow-fleshed potato germplasm
Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry (REIMS) has the capability to rapidly perform tissue analysis without sample preparation, extractions or chromatography required. The study was conducted to evaluate REIMS as ... -
Relationship between greenhouse and field performance of diverse cultivars of summer squash and watermelon grown under moisture stressed conditions, The
Drought stress poses a major threat to the global food supply, and most domestic vegetable growers lack cultivar-specific information that would allow them to adopt best management practices to limit the impacts of these ... -
Molecular investigations in date palm genetic structure and diversity among commercially important date palm cultivars (Phoenix dactylifera L.)
The date palm, Phoenix dactylifera L. is the notable palm which produces a nutrient-rich edible fruit (the date), well known for its unique attributes of medicine and healthy energy. It is a species that has been cultivated ... -
Effect of phosphorus fertilization on rhizosphere microbiome of crops
Recent studies in plant-microbe interactions have revealed the importance of the rhizosphere microbiome in agriculture. However, little is known about the impact of fertilization on the rhizosphere and its associated ... -
Physiological responses of grapevines to environmental stresses
The field response of several grapevine (Vitis vinifera L) cultivars, grown at the Orchard Mesa Research Center, to methanol application on foliage and trunks was investigated. Sublethal methanol doses were determined as ... -
Supplemental light-emitting diode effects on the growth, fruit quality, and yield of two greenhouse-grown strawberry (Fragaria X ananassa) cultivars
Recent interest in off-season, greenhouse-grown food crops using supplemental top lighting(STL) has created opportunities for controlled environmental agriculture (CEA) production of high-value fruit crops such as strawberries ... -
Impacts of LED interlighting on the growth, yield, and quality of hydroponic greenhouse tomatoes
Recent technological advances have lead to light emitting diode (LED) lights becoming more readily available. They are becoming established as a way to supplement light in controlled environment crop production and are ...
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