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🌱 Exciting Week at Wiltshire College & University Centre 🌿 This week, we had the privilege of conducting our first Masterclass for Level 2 Sports Turf Operative (Lantra) students at The Caversham – Home of Reading Golf Club. The day unfolded into a fantastic blend of education and hands-on experiences, providing invaluable insights for our […]
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The perennial grasses can be classified as either C3 or C4 plants. Also known as cool season and warm season grasses. As a generalisation, C3 plants are more temperate, preferring cooler, moister conditions – winter active. C4 plants grow better in warmer, dryer conditions. The terms C3 and C4 refer to the different pathways that
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Carbon is a raw material for photosynthesis, in the form of carbon dioxide. Green plants use it to make vital organic compounds. On the land, plants get the carbon they need as a gas from the air. In water, plants ranging from seaweeds to phytoplankton are supplied by dissolved carbon dioxide, CO2. In plants, carbon
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Chlorophyll is a green pigment which is most closely associated with energy absorption in plants. A pigment is a molecule that has a particular color and can absorb light at different wavelengths, depending on the color. There are many different types of pigments in nature, but chlorophyll is unique in its ability to enable plants
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This article was written by Jerry Spencer – Gilba Solutions PTY LTD Not all of the sun’s radiance is light, the term ‘light’ refers to the radiance we can see. As humans we can only see a limited amount of the sun’s radiance, which isn’t a lot at all. However plants that photosynthesis have a
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The information in this article was provided by Gilba Solutions There are many seaweed based products on the market in Australia but very few have any relevant trial data. But there is now one product available, used by the 2011 Audubon winner – Crystal Springs GC, as well as St Andrews Golf Club, The Belfry
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The information in this article was provided by Gilba Solutions Is your turf suffering from poor root growth or a classic witches’ broom appearance? You may assume that obviously, it must be mites! Not necessarily. There actually is another option that few people ever consider. Often totally overlooked in turf nutrition, Boron plays a key
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Transpiration is the process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers. It is a passive process that requires no energy expense by the plant. Transpiration also cools plants, changes osmotic pressure of cells, and enables mass flow of mineral nutrients. When water uptake by
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Yes, glycolysis; pentose phosphate pathway; and aerobic. Now things will get very complicated here so stick with us or check out our much simpler YouTube videos. Glycolysis takes place in the cytosol of a cell, and it can be broken down into two main phases: the energy-requiring phase, above the dotted line in the image below,
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The process of respiration in plants involves using the sugars produced during photosynthesis plus oxygen to produce energy for plant growth. In many ways, respiration is the opposite of photosynthesis. In the natural environment, plants produce their own food to survive. They use the carbon dioxide (CO2) from the environment to produce sugars and oxygen (O2),
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