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New Approaches to Irrigation Scheduling of Vegetables by Cahn, Michael, Johnson, Lee

“…Using evapotranspiration (ET) data for scheduling irrigations on vegetable farms is challenging due to imprecise crop coefficients, time consuming…”
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Fate of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in field-inoculated lettuce by Moyne, Anne-laure, Sudarshana, Mysore R., Blessington, Tyann, Koike, Steven T., Cahn, Michael D., Harris, Linda J.

“…Impact of drip and overhead sprinkler irrigation on the persistence of attenuated Escherichia coli O157:H7 in the lettuce phyllosphere was investigated using a…”
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Evapotranspiration Based Irrigation Trials Examine Water Requirement, Nitrogen Use, and Yield of Romaine Lettuce in the Salinas Valley by Cahn, Michael D., Johnson, Lee F., Benzen, Sharon D.

“…Cool season vegetables require adequate soil moisture to assure that maximum yield and quality are achieved. On California’s central coast, where the majority…”
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Nitrogen Requirements and N Status Determination of Lettuce by BOTTOMS, Thomas G, SMITH, Richard F, CAHN, Michael D, HARTZ, Timothy K

“…As concern over NO 3 -N pollution of groundwater increases, California lettuce growers are under pressure to improve nitrogen (N) fertilizer efficiency. Crop…”
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Risk-Based Review of California’s Water-Recycling Criteria for Agricultural Irrigation by Olivieri, Adam W, Seto, Edmund, Cooper, Robert C, Cahn, Michael D, Colford, John, Crook, James, Debroux, Jean-François, Mandrell, Robert, Suslow, Trevor, Tchobanoglous, George, Hultquist, Robert A, Spath, David P, Mosher, Jeffrey J

“…AbstractCalifornia currently recycles treated wastewater at a volume of approximately 8.0×108  m3 of water per year, with a potential to recycle an additional…”
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Conditions at the time of inoculation influence survival of attenuated Escherichia coli O157:H7 on field-inoculated lettuce by Moyne, Anne-laure, Blessington, Tyann, Williams, Thomas R., Koike, Steven T., Cahn, Michael D., Marco, Maria L., Harris, Linda J.

“…The impact of plant development, environmental conditions at the time of inoculation, and inoculum concentration on survival of attenuated BSL1 Escherichia…”
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Transfer of Escherichia coli O157:H7 from simulated wildlife scat onto romaine lettuce during foliar irrigation by Atwill, Edward R, Chase, Jennifer A, Oryang, David, Bond, Ronald F, Koike, Steven T, Cahn, Michael D, Anderson, Maren, Mokhtari, Amirhossein, Dennis, Sherri

“…A field trial in Salinas Valley, California, was conducted during July 2011 to quantify the microbial load that transfers from wildlife feces onto nearby…”
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Soil Calcium Status Unrelated to Tipburn of Romaine Lettuce by Hartz, T.K, Johnstone, P.R, Smith, R.F, Cahn, M.D

“…Application of calcium (Ca) fertilizers is a common practice of California lettuce growers to minimize the occurrence and severity of tipburn, particularly in…”
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Toxicity of Anionic Polyacrylamide Formulations when Used for Erosion Control in Agriculture by Weston, Donald P, Lentz, Rodrick D, Cahn, Michael D, Ogle, R. Scott, Rothert, Amanda K, Lydy, Michael J

“…Addition of anionic polyacrylamide (PAM) to agricultural irrigation water can dramatically reduce erosion of soils. However, the toxicity of PAM to aquatic…”
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Crop and Soil Nitrogen Dynamics in Annual Strawberry Production in California by BOTTOMS, Thomas G, HARTZ, Timothy K, CAHN, Michael D, FARRARA, Barry F

“…The impact of strawberry production on nitrate contamination of groundwater is of major concern in the central coast region of California. Nitrogen (N)…”
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Using Polyacrylamide (PAM) for Reducing Sediment and Nutrient Losses from Cool Season Vegetable Fields by Cahn, Michael D, Ajwa, Husein A

“…Agricultural runoff is a source of nutrients and sediments in surface water on the central coast of California. Treating soils with high molecular weight…”
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Nitrogen in soil and subsurface drip-irrigated processing tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum L.) as affected by fertilization level by Geisseler, Daniel, Aegerter, Brenna J., Miyao, Eugene M., Turini, Tom, Cahn, Michael D.

“…•Processing tomato fruit contained an average of 1.5 g N kg−1at harvest.•N in fruit accounted for 64 % of the N in the aboveground biomass.•Plant N uptake was…”
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Screening of Lettuce Germplasm for Agronomic Traits under Low Water Conditions by Eriksen, Renée L., Knepper, Caleb, Cahn, Michael D., Mou, Beiquan

“…After a preliminary screening of over 3500 cultivars, we selected 200 butterhead, cos, crisphead, leaf, and stem lettuce ( Lactuca sativa L.) and wild prickly…”
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Fine-tuning fertilizer applications in organic cool-season leafy green crops can increase soil quality and yields by Smith, Richard, Cahn, Michael D, Hartz, Tim, Geisseler, Daniel J, Love, Patricia

“…Organic cool-season vegetable growers on the Central Coast face challenges in applying nitrogen (N) to balance yields with new environmental regulations. It is…”
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