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applications to increase the yield and profitability of jojoba
production.
During 1983, Whittaker, on behalf of HJI, contracted with
Inter Ag Services, Inc. (IAS), headed by Dr. Paul J. Eberhardt
(Eberhardt), to conduct periodic leaf tissue analyses to measure
the effect of the nutrient applications on the jojoba plants.
The leaf analyses indicated that the nitrogen and/or phosphate
applications had no discernable effect on the jojoba plants
growing on Turtleback I. Results from nutrient applications to
jojoba plants growing in other locations, such as in Desert
Center, California, and at the University of Arizona jojoba
research site, however, had indicated that those jojoba plants
responded positively to nitrogen and/or phosphate applications.
It is common for crops in different environments to respond
differently to nutrients.
Subsequently, HJI contracted with IAS in February 1985, for
a total contract price of $16,262, to conduct some nutrients
tests to try to determine, among other things, why the jojoba
plants on Turtleback I were not responding to the nitrogen and
phosphorous as had been expected. Some of the services performed
by IAS for HJI related to the effects on the jojoba plants of
other nutrients, such as zinc, iron, magnesium, and copper, and
were associated with JDP-II. One of the projects undertaken by
IAS for HJI was performed on jojoba plants that were not located
on Turtleback I. The work performed by IAS confirmed that
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