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University Of Massachusetts Cranberry Station Strategic Plan, Hilary A. Sandler Nov 2022

University Of Massachusetts Cranberry Station Strategic Plan, Hilary A. Sandler

Cranberry Station Research Reports and Surveys

No abstract provided.


Role Of Plasma Membrane Intrinsic Proteins (Pips) Subfamily And Sulfur Nanoparticle Interactions In Metalloids Transport And Tolerance/Sensitivity In Rice, Ahmed Gm Ali Oct 2022

Role Of Plasma Membrane Intrinsic Proteins (Pips) Subfamily And Sulfur Nanoparticle Interactions In Metalloids Transport And Tolerance/Sensitivity In Rice, Ahmed Gm Ali

Doctoral Dissertations

Plasma membrane intrinsic proteins (PIPs) are major intrinsic proteins (MIPs) with the ability to permeate water and small uncharged solutes as well as metalloids including arsenic (As), through the cell membranes. Arsenic is a highly toxic element that occurs naturally in the earth's crust or from anthropogenic activities with a severe poisonous effect on most living organisms. Rice, as the daily staple food for more than half of the world population, accumulates higher As contents than any other economic crop due to its growing conditions in flooded paddy fields. Members from the NOD26-like intrinsic proteins (NIP) subfamily of MIP were …


Golden Casebearer (2022), Martha Sylvia, Anne Averill Jul 2022

Golden Casebearer (2022), Martha Sylvia, Anne Averill

Cranberry Station Fact Sheets

No abstract provided.


Cranberry Black Bug (2022), Martha Sylvia, Anne Averill Jul 2022

Cranberry Black Bug (2022), Martha Sylvia, Anne Averill

Cranberry Station Fact Sheets

No abstract provided.


The Influence Of Cover Crop Termination Strategies And Supplemental Nitrogen On Sweet Corn Yield And Nitrogen Use Efficiency, Sachina Sunuwar May 2022

The Influence Of Cover Crop Termination Strategies And Supplemental Nitrogen On Sweet Corn Yield And Nitrogen Use Efficiency, Sachina Sunuwar

Masters Theses

Cover crops are instrumental in nutrient management and soil health. A field experiment was conducted from fall 2020 to summer 2021 to evaluate the efficiency of different cover crop termination techniques and supplemental nitrogen on sweet corn yield, ear quality and nitrogen use efficiency. The four termination types are herbicide and disk tillage (HDT), herbicide no-till (HNT), cultivation disk till (CDT), and roller crimped no-till (RCNT). These termination types were each divided into four different nitrogen treatment: 0%, 33%, 67% and 100% of the recommended doses (145 kg haˉ¹). Sweet corn yield was highest and % unfilled tip was lowest …


2022 Pesticide Safety: Pathology Review, Sai Sree Uppala Apr 2022

2022 Pesticide Safety: Pathology Review, Sai Sree Uppala

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Pesticide Safety: Pesticide Resistance And Modes Of Action, Martha Sylvia, Katherine Ghantous Apr 2022

2022 Pesticide Safety: Pesticide Resistance And Modes Of Action, Martha Sylvia, Katherine Ghantous

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Pesticide Safety: Pesticide Restictions And Mrls, Martha Sylvia, Katherine Ghantous Apr 2022

2022 Pesticide Safety: Pesticide Restictions And Mrls, Martha Sylvia, Katherine Ghantous

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Pesticide Safety: Kqf And Frost, Peter Jeranyama Apr 2022

2022 Pesticide Safety: Kqf And Frost, Peter Jeranyama

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Pesticide Safety: Herbicide And Weed Research Update, Katherine Ghantous Apr 2022

2022 Pesticide Safety: Herbicide And Weed Research Update, Katherine Ghantous

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Pesticide Safety: Chemigation Review, Gavin Bartlett Apr 2022

2022 Pesticide Safety: Chemigation Review, Gavin Bartlett

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Pesticide Safety: Use Patterns And Herbicide Labels, Hilary A. Sandler Apr 2022

2022 Pesticide Safety: Use Patterns And Herbicide Labels, Hilary A. Sandler

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Pesticide Safety: Station Update, Hilary A. Sandler Mar 2022

2022 Pesticide Safety: Station Update, Hilary A. Sandler

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


Screening For Binding Partners And Protein-Protein Interactions Of A Fungal Transcription Factor- Xdr1, Nishadi Punsara Gallala Gamage Mar 2022

Screening For Binding Partners And Protein-Protein Interactions Of A Fungal Transcription Factor- Xdr1, Nishadi Punsara Gallala Gamage

Masters Theses

Clarireedia spp. (formerly Sclerotinia homoeocarpaF.T. Bennett) is the causal agent dollar spot, the most economically important turfgrass disease impacting golf courses in North America. The most effective strategy for dollar spot control is repeated application of multiple classes of fungicides. However, reliance on chemical application has led to resistance to four classes of fungicides as well as multidrug resistance (MDR). Fungi are known to detoxify xenobiotics, like fungicides, through transcriptional regulation of three detoxification phases: modification, conjugation and secretion. Little is known, however, of the protein-protein interactions that facilitate these pathways. Following next-generation RNA sequencing of Clarireedia spp., a …


Community Assembly And Stress Response Of Grassland Phyllosphere Bacteria, Emily Bechtold Feb 2022

Community Assembly And Stress Response Of Grassland Phyllosphere Bacteria, Emily Bechtold

Doctoral Dissertations

Grasslands are an important ecosystem with potential to help stabilize food security and reduce greenhouse gas levels. As global temperatures rise, weather patterns are predicted to drastically change. The resulting increase in intensity, duration, and frequency of drought in important grassland areas will not only affect agricultural production, but also increase grassland susceptibility to fire, disease, and soil erosion. Thus, developing ways to sustainably promote grassland health and production is essential to increase food security and reduce environmental strain. Microbes in the phyllosphere, or aerial surface of plants, promote host fitness through phytohormone and nutrient production, increased stress tolerance, and …


2022 Update Mtg Jan 27: Update On New Variety Evaluations And Pgr Trials, Giverson Mupambi Jan 2022

2022 Update Mtg Jan 27: Update On New Variety Evaluations And Pgr Trials, Giverson Mupambi

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Update Mtg Jan 27: Weevil Update And Green Spanworm, Martha Sylvia Jan 2022

2022 Update Mtg Jan 27: Weevil Update And Green Spanworm, Martha Sylvia

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Update Mtg Jan 27: Update On Fungicide Efficacy, Sai Sree Uppala Jan 2022

2022 Update Mtg Jan 27: Update On Fungicide Efficacy, Sai Sree Uppala

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Update Mtg Jan 27: New Issues-Climate Change In Cranberry, Christopher Neill, Martha Sylvia Jan 2022

2022 Update Mtg Jan 27: New Issues-Climate Change In Cranberry, Christopher Neill, Martha Sylvia

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Update Mtg Jan 26: Frost And Nitrogen In Cranberry, Peter Jeranyama Jan 2022

2022 Update Mtg Jan 26: Frost And Nitrogen In Cranberry, Peter Jeranyama

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Update Mtg Jan 26: Sustainable Fruit Rot Management, Leela Uppala Jan 2022

2022 Update Mtg Jan 26: Sustainable Fruit Rot Management, Leela Uppala

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Update Mtg Jan 26: Scale And Casebearer, Anne Averill Jan 2022

2022 Update Mtg Jan 26: Scale And Casebearer, Anne Averill

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Pesticide Safety: Wps And Pesticide Safety Updat, Martha Sylvia Jan 2022

2022 Pesticide Safety: Wps And Pesticide Safety Updat, Martha Sylvia

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Update Mtg Jan 26: Pesticide And Mdar Updates, Martha Sylvia Jan 2022

2022 Update Mtg Jan 26: Pesticide And Mdar Updates, Martha Sylvia

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Update Mtg Jan 26: What's New In The Weed World?, Hilary A. Sandler Jan 2022

2022 Update Mtg Jan 26: What's New In The Weed World?, Hilary A. Sandler

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


2022 Update Mtg Jan 26: Station Update, Hilary A. Sandler Jan 2022

2022 Update Mtg Jan 26: Station Update, Hilary A. Sandler

Cranberry Station Extension meetings

No abstract provided.


Japanese Knotweed, Phoebe Antonio, Katherine Ghantous, Hilary A. Sandler Jan 2022

Japanese Knotweed, Phoebe Antonio, Katherine Ghantous, Hilary A. Sandler

Cranberry Station Fact Sheets

No abstract provided.


Sunflower Plantings Reduce A Common Gut Pathogen And Increase Queen Production In Bumble Bee Colonies, Rosemary L. Malfi, Quinn S. Mcfrederick, Giselle Lozano, Rebecca E. Irwin, Lynn S. Adler Jan 2022

Sunflower Plantings Reduce A Common Gut Pathogen And Increase Queen Production In Bumble Bee Colonies, Rosemary L. Malfi, Quinn S. Mcfrederick, Giselle Lozano, Rebecca E. Irwin, Lynn S. Adler

Data and Datasets

We evaluated whether plantings of sunflower (Helianthus annuus), whose pollen reduces infection by some pathogens when fed to bees in captivity, lowered pathogen levels and increased reproduction in free-foraging bumble bee colonies (Bombus impatiens). We placed pairs of commercial colonies of B. impatiens at 20 mixed vegetable farms in western Massachusetts between Jul-23 and Oct-6 2019. Flowering resources typically visited by bumble bees were quantified at each farm twice to characterize abundance and diversity. We also visited each farm 3-4 times and at each visit, we (a) recorded colony weights to track growth, (b) collected ~10 …


The Intersection Of Bee And Flower Sexes: Pollen Presence Shapes Sex-Specific Bee Foraging Associations In Sunflower, Justin C. Roch, Rosemary Malfi, Jennifer I. Van Wyk, Deicy Carolina Muñoz Agudelo, Joan Milam, Lynn S. Adler Jan 2022

The Intersection Of Bee And Flower Sexes: Pollen Presence Shapes Sex-Specific Bee Foraging Associations In Sunflower, Justin C. Roch, Rosemary Malfi, Jennifer I. Van Wyk, Deicy Carolina Muñoz Agudelo, Joan Milam, Lynn S. Adler

Data and Datasets

We evaluated whether female or male bees were more abundant on sunflowers, whether female bees were more abundant on pollen-fertile or pollen-sterile sunflower cultivars, and whether the bee community differed between pollen-fertile and pollen-sterile sunflower cultivars. We further evaluated whether bee communities were shaped by local floral resources and landscape composition. We sampled bees visiting sunflowers (Helianthus spp.) from 14 farms in the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts between 25 July to 27 September 2019, typically making two sampling visits to a farm. We also measured floral resource diversity and abundance at the farms, and categorized the landscape types …