INTERIORSCAPING

Interiorscaping

Abstract

The planet Earth is dominated by plants, and the green plant is fundamental to all other life. Charles Lewis explored human ties to the green world and concluded that people and plants are entwined by threads that reach back to our very beginnings as a species. Plants have a wide spectrum of uses, supplying our food requirements either directly or indirectly as feed for animals. Crop production—the management of useful plants—is the very basis of our civilization. Plants are used as a source of construction materials and as the raw materials in the manufacture of fabrics and paper. Plants are the basis of many of the complex substances used such as dyes, tannins, waxes, resins, flavorings, medicines, and drugs. Plants, in addition to having a direct effect on our ecological position, are used to control erosion by water and wind, provide a setting for recreation and sports, and as landscape materials that satisfy our desire for beauty. In this paper, we try to focus on the Beneficial in Interiorscaping.

Beneficial in Interiorscaping

Establishing Control Beneficially

Houseplants are no longer just houseplants, but the stars of a growing, multi-million dollar industry of landscaping indoors, also known as interiorscaping.  Every day, more and more people are bringing plants inside and making their habitats more habitable.  By bringing the outdoors in, plants used in interiorscaping, clean the air, removing harmful toxins such as formaldehyde, benzene, and trichloroethylene, while providing a relaxing ambiance that helps the stressed, decompress and calm.  As consumers are realizing the benefits of interiorscaping, the industry is realizing the increasing sensitivity of its consumers to the use of pesticides indoors.  Hence, establishing a need for beneficial pest control as an alternative to pesticides.  Beneficial pest control includes biological methods as well as cultural and mechanical practices to control and reduce the incidences of disease and insect pests (Altieri, 2009).

Pests of Interiorscaping

Diseases

Plants are susceptible to the disease because they are genetically identical.

Fungi (Leaf spot, stem and root rots)

Like other eukaryotes, fungi possess cell bounded by a plasma membrane rich in sterol and containing a nucleus that contains the genetic material in the form of chromosomes. This genetic material contains genes and other coding and noncoding elements such as introns. Possess organelles such asmitochondria, and ribosomes type 80S. As reserve compounds and carbohydrates have soluble polyalcohols (eg, the mannitol), disaccharides (such astrehalose) and polysaccharides (such as glycogen , which, moreover, present in animals). Like plants, fungi have cell wall and vacuoles, are reproduced in a sexual and asexual, and, like the ferns and mosses produce spores. Because their life cycle, possess nuclei haploid usually like mosses and algae. The fungal cells often have a filamentous appearance, being tubular and elongated. Inside, it is common to find multiple cores, at their ends, growth areas; there is an aggregation of vesicles that contain proteins, lipids and organic molecules called Spitzenkörper. Fungi and oomycetes have a growth rate based on hyphae (Butterfield, 2008). This is distinctive because other filamentous organisms, the green algae, form chains of ...