I. Identify the information need, describe background information, so what who cares, ~ 1 paragraph
Growing your own food is a highly rewarding and economical experience. There is nothing like the feeling of watching the seeds that you sowed sprout through the soil and begin to grow tall. After months of care, your garden is filled with vining beanstalks, tall shoots of brussels sprouts, and the tops of carrots letting you know of the treasures that lie under the earth. As you learn to grow different varieties of fruits and vegetables, the more you want to learn. The food you grow is delicious, and instead of running to the store to buy the onion you forgot you needed, you can just open your back door and pull one from the ground, saving you hundreds of dollars by the end of the year. After supplementing my own grocery list with the food that I’ve grown, I can’t help but want to find even more to grow. When I visited the Propagation Fair at LCC and saw the hundreds, if not thousands, of twigs used for grafting trees, I became highly interested in growing trees. I knew that grafting was a significant part of that, and having always wanted to grow my own apples, I decided that I wanted to learn more about what the process was to graft apple trees.
II. State the research question and give a nutshell answer
I had heard of grafting in conversations with other gardeners, and in passing throughout the various botany classes that I have taken, but I didn’t know much more than the basics. After deciding that I wanted to grow my own fruit trees, I wanted to learn more about what tree grafting is, why it is used, particularly for apples, and some techniques on how it is done. As it turns out, grafting is a process in which a branch o...
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...f fruit you want, so long as the conditions are right. You can even grow more than one kind of fruit on a tree by grafting more than one scion to different branches on the rootstock. Supplementing your diet with food that you have grown yourself is extremely rewarding and should not be overlooked as a viable option.
I. Conclusion, re-emphasize nutshell answer
Grafting is an ingenious technique discovered thousands of years ago that allows two or more plants to be joined together. The scion is chosen based on what cultivar you are interested in growing, whether it be a particular kind of leaf, or a type of flower, or a specific variety of fruit, such as the apple, which can only be replicated through grafting. Each method of grafting is suitable for different kinds of conditions, but the easiest Cleft Graft only requires a few simple supplies and a little care.
Terry Kay’s father cultivates fruit trees. Fruit trees generally live for approximately ten years then die off. It takes fruit trees three to five years before they will bear fruit. Overall fruit trees require a short term commitment. Although Kay’s father became famous for his well grown trees, it did not require the dedication and time that Sam Peek had to exert for his pecan trees.[b2] In the novel Sam Peek has dedicated his life to the growth and production of his pecan trees. Pecan trees take at least five years to yield fruit and can live up to seventy-five years. They take much more time and effort to yield profit. Cultivating pecan trees is a life long project. In the novel Sam Peek dedicates his life to the care of his pecan trees. In his old age, when he is retired from the tree business, he still has the commitment to go to the pecan orchard and pull weeds. This shows Sam Peeks strong bonds to his life and family[b3]. He is very much tied down to the land around his family home. His dedication to his trees is because he wishes to provide a good life for his family. He pours a lot of effort into this wish.
By grafting heirloom tomatoes onto hybrid rootstocks, it is possible to obtain the flavor and corresponding higher price of heirloom varieties with the disease resistance, longer fruiting period, and vigor of hybrid cultivars. Producing grafted seedlings does, however, require extra effort, materials, and knowledge. (Rivard)
Brazil nuts are harvested at plantations and in the wild. Plantations are being developed in various parts of the Amazon. Fazenda Aruana is the owner of a 12,000 hectare former cattle ranch, partially converted to a Brazil Nut plantation in 1980. By January of 1990, 318,660 Brazil nut trees were planted on 3341 hectares of land. Fazenda's original intent was to plant Brazil Nut trees in a 20 by 20 meter grids and allow cattle grazing between the trees. The trees in the Aruana plantation are the result of grafting high yield clones from the region of Abufari Amazonas were Brazil nuts are know for their large fruits and seeds. As a result of fertilization from the same clones, the fruit production among clones has been low(2). Another danger in using so few clones is the ability to resist attack of disease and insects.
Even though cloning methods have been in use for an extended period of time, the idea of a clone was never thought to be realistic until recently. For thousands of years, humans have been cloning plants through asexual propagation. This is simply the process of stem cutting or grafting a mammal was performed in Switzerland nearly 20 years after the carrot plant where mice cells were cloned. Later, in 1997, Dolly the sheep’s mammary cells were cloned (Lee). This was a major success for science because it was the first time an adult cell was used in which results in a clone of the previous generation of the plant and is still a method used today. It wasn’t until 1958 when modern cloning began with a carrot and in 1964 when scientist John Gurdon started the beginning of animal cell cloning of toad tadpoles. The first successful clone of embryonic cell. After scientists gained a greater knowledge of the process of cloning, they realized that it could possibly be used to benefit the world. In 2001, the first endangered species, the bull gaur, was cloned, and in...
Organic food has become so popular these days, since people especially in United States are making a commitment to have a good start towards a healthier life. People often doubt whether the organic food is really healthier and more nutritious? Why does it cost so expensive? Well, first of all, the term “organic” is referring to the way agricultural products are grown and processed which later on will affected the quality of the food. In order for a product to be labeled as “organic”, they must meet several specific conditions and requirements. Consuming organic food will not only affect health, but also the existence of animals as well as the food resource and the environment.
What are organic foods? Organic foods are grown without any preservatives, pesticides, chemicals, drugs, and hormones. Organic foods are grown or raised with a method that differs from industrial food. Recently, the organic market has been booming because of the many benefits studies have shown for organic foods, in which it has a better nutritional value than non-organic and is better for the earth. The harmful toxics that derive with non-organic foods have been shown in studies to affect individual’s health and the environment. Therefore, consuming organic foods and using organic agriculture methods should be the direction to go in order to improve one’s health and sustain the environment.
He traveled in a hollowed-out log with orchards worth of apple seeds with him and is a classic demonstration of the mutual benefit between people and plants. Humans give themselves too much credit when it comes to dominating and controlling other species. We believe that we can domesticate every plant, while in reality the process takes two to perform. For example, the oak tree denies domestication from humans, instead interacting primarily with squirrels. The squirrels are able to receive food through the acorns of the oak, while the oak benefits by the squirrels burying some of the acorns for the benefit of oak trees, resulting in no need for humans to step in to the perfectly functional arrangement. The relationship between humans and the apple was much the opposite, both benefitting greatly from one another. The apple has heterozygosity, meaning it has an immense amount of genetic variability. This allows the plant to easily grow in different climates, and by doing so it creates millions of different species. Johnny Appleseed played an important role in the establishment of apples all over America, managing to plant a chain of nurseries reaching from Pennsylvania to Indiana. He was welcomed into people’s homes as a legend, and in return for hosting him, Chapman would plant a few apple trees for them as a sign of thanks. Many settlers along his route also encouraged him to plant nurseries nearby, due to the apples main value back then being to produce hard cider. Chapman became a transporter of alcohol, as the apples were far too sour for anyone to eat on its own, and his popularity grew even further. The Prohibition came along, and the strike down on alcohol meant the cutting down of Chapman’s trees. Because of his extensive efforts to spread the seeds of the Apple tree, the
do. God had said that Adam and Eve may eat any fruit from any of the trees in
Selective breeding is carried out by both commercial and hobby breeders. Breeding must be carried out within the same species, if it is carried out with two different species then they can’t breed together. Animals that are bred are known as breeds, whereas plants which are bred are known as varieties or cultivars. The outcome of cross breeding animals and crossbreeding plants are called hybrids. There are two types of selective breeding which i...
Scientist can identify the specific gene for a given trait, make a copy of that gene for insertion into a plant, and be certain that only the new gene is added to the plant. This eliminates the “backcrossing';, traditional plant breeders must do to eliminate extraneous undesired genes that are frequently introduced when using cross-hybridization.
To some an acorn is just an acorn, nothing more than a nut. The acorn with its tough leathery outside and rich amber color signifies nothing more than the commencement of autumn. To others it represents a great deal of potential. This tiny seed has the ability to endure many adverse effects including long periods of cold temperatures, drought, and human interference. The fragile acorn contains all the necessary elements to become the giant, majestic oak that has come to signify strength. When the conditions are favorable, the little nut will thrive and become an impressive adult tree providing oxygen and shade as nature intended. The most important factor to the budding tree is the environment. Like all other living things, the acorn needs care and ideal circumstances to develop properly. This is also true for humans and their offspring. Creating the perfect environment for an infant to flourish is quite possibly, the single most important factor to the success of a well-adjusted, adult human.
Genetic engineering can be seen as intentional horizontal gene transfer. Reproduction, in contrast, is known as vertical gene transfer, because the genes are passed down through the generations from parent to
An enormous number of people visit a grocery store several times a week and buy chicken, but not many of them know that what they are buying were injected with various chemicals and prohibited from moving around in the farms, in order to make them bigger. This type of food production is called mass production, which uses a great amount of chemicals such as pesticide for crops and antibiotics for the livestock in order to guarantee rapid production, only focusing on maximizing the profit. Furthermore, the major companies are not revealing the process of manufacturing their goods clearly to the consumers. Consequently, mass production of food has caused problems in economic and environmental aspects of our society. Thus, as an alternative for mass production, local food movement is spreading throughout the world, mainly in the United States. Local food movement is the consumption of food that is produced within the region one lives. This effort in the food industry has its own benefits in terms of consumer satisfaction, economic cost, and protection of the environment.
In the society where people are getting more concerned about one's health, organic food has become a widely spread and followed by many people tendency. Organic food is believed to have better impact on person's well-being and not to cause harm to people and the surrounding world due to its ecological nature. The debate that has been recently developed around this topic cannot be solved easily since both supporters and their counterparts provide reasonable arguments supporting their positions. However, to get into the problem and find the answer to a question that concerns many people, it is necessary to identify organic food at first.
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