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Department of Statistics: Faculty Publications

2011

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Effects Of Animal Diet, Manure Application Rate, And Tillage On Transport Of Microorganisms From Manure-Amended Fields, Lisa M. Durso, John Gilley, David B. Marx, Bryan Woodbury Sep 2011

Effects Of Animal Diet, Manure Application Rate, And Tillage On Transport Of Microorganisms From Manure-Amended Fields, Lisa M. Durso, John Gilley, David B. Marx, Bryan Woodbury

Department of Statistics: Faculty Publications

Manure from cattle fed distillers’ grain or corn diets was applied to fields, and the fields were subjected to rainfall simulation tests. Manure was added at three rates on till and no-till plots. Correlations between microbial transport and runoff characteristics were identified. Results indicate that diet affects phage but not bacterial transport from manure-amended fields.


Variation In Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum Bean Isolates From Multisite Resistance Screening Locations, Lindsey Otto-Hanson, James R, Steadman, Rebecca Higgins, Kent M. Eskridge Jan 2011

Variation In Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum Bean Isolates From Multisite Resistance Screening Locations, Lindsey Otto-Hanson, James R, Steadman, Rebecca Higgins, Kent M. Eskridge

Department of Statistics: Faculty Publications

There is no complete resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, cause of white mold in dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris). Variable resistance expression is one problem in screening for improved white mold resistance. With no previous information in the literature, pathogen variation in multisite screening nurseries was evaluated as one cause of diverse resistance expression. In all, 10 isolates of S. sclerotiorum used in greenhouse screening and 146 isolates collected from nine white mold field screening nurseries in major bean production areas in the United States were compared using mycelial compatibility groupings (MCGs) and an aggressiveness test. These 10 greenhouse …


Development Of An Internet Based System For Modeling Biotin Metabolism Using Bayesian Networks, Jinglei Zhou, Dong Wang, Vicki L. Schlegel, Janos Zempleni Jan 2011

Development Of An Internet Based System For Modeling Biotin Metabolism Using Bayesian Networks, Jinglei Zhou, Dong Wang, Vicki L. Schlegel, Janos Zempleni

Department of Statistics: Faculty Publications

Biotin is an essential water-soluble vitamin crucial for maintaining normal body functions. The importance of biotin for human health has been under-appreciated but there is plenty of opportunity for future research with great importance for human health. Currently, carrying out predictions of biotin metabolism involves tedious manual manipulations. In this paper, we report the development of BiotinNet, an internet based program that uses Bayesian networks to integrate published data on various aspects of biotin metabolism. Users can provide a combination of values on the levels of biotin related metabolites to obtain the predictions on other metabolites that are not specified. …