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Effect Of Total Flavonoids From Perennial Lablab Sp. Hull On Immune Function In Mice, Cao Baiying, Jiang Xiujuan, Qi Yingxin, Chang Youquan

Food and Machinery

The effect of total flavonoids from Perennial Lablab sp. Hull(FPLH) on the immune function and antioxidant activity in vivo were studied. With index of immune organ, spleen lymphocyte proliferation function, phagocytic activity of macrophages, cytokine levels in serum(IFN-γ and IL-4), the activity of alkaline phosphatase in serum, the activity of SOD, GSH-Px and the level of MDA in serum as the evaluated indices, the immune function and antioxidant activities of FPLH in mice was studied. The results showed that the thymus index and spleen index of FPLH was higher than the control group by 12.34% and 8.67% respectively; the spleen …

Ultrasonic Enhancement Of Tartary Buckwheat Germination And The Production Of Nutrients In Sprouts, Wang Shunmin, Wang Jianfei

Food and Machinery

Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) seeds were treated using ultrasonic at different power and time and temperature. The exposed grains were germinated, then harvested after incubation on the 2rd, 4th, and 6th days. The effects of ultrasonic on the germination rate of the tartary buckwheat seeds and some nutrient compounds in the sprouts were detected, and the DPPH radical-scavenging activities of the seedlings were investigated. The results showed that with treatment of 280 W ultrasonic, at 20 ℃ for 35 min, the highest rates of initial (88.0%) and final (100.0%) germination were obtained after incubation. With the treatment of 240 W …

The Effect Of Different Hydrolloids On The Quality Of The Germinated Brown Rice Bread, Cao Lei, Xia Qing, Song Yu, Lu Chaoqun, Tao Shu, Liu Chao

Food and Machinery

The effect of different hydrolloids on quality of the germinated brown rice (GBR) bread was investigated in this study, by adding different content of hydroxy propyl methyl cellulose, sodium alginate and xanthan gum. The results showed that different hydrolloids had different effects and suitable adding concentration on the bread. Compared with the GBR bread without any hydrolloids, the specific volume of bread increased by 25%, whereas its hardness decreased by 35%. However, the springiness and the cohesiveness increased by 9.5% and 9.8%, respectively, when added with 2% hydroxy propyl methyl cellulose in the bread. After adding 0.1% sodium alginate, the …

Study On Technology Of Coagulated By Fermented Soybean Processing Waste Water, Xie Linglai, Zhao Liangzhong, Yin Lebin, Chen Chuqi, Zhou Juan, Zhu Dan

Food and Machinery

Fermented soybean processing waste water was used as coagulant to produce tofu. On the basis of single factor experiments, the total acid of fermented soybean processing waste water, amount of fermented soybean processing waste water and the temperature of pointing soybean milk were main factors, taking the sensory evaluation score and springiness, and the coagulation conditions were optimized through response surface methodology. Results showed that the optimum coagulation parameters were as follows: the total acid of fermented soybean processing waste water 5.3 g/kg, the amount of fermented soybean processing waste water 29% and the temperature of pointing soymilk 76 ℃. …

Analysis Of Current Situation And Development Tendency Regarding Marine Food Utilization And Processing Industry, Zhang Rongbin, Tang Xu

Food and Machinery

In this paper, it was elaborated the basic situation of marine biology resources and potential of sea food development in China, and the development status of marine food industry was also analyzed. It was summarized that the product category is simple and mainly focuses on frozen seafood. Moreover, the current products feature is of low added-value and utilization rate. Therefore, we raised kinds of restraining factors of seafood industry development in China, and discussed the future trend of seafood industry development in order to promote the marine livelihood and economy.

Exploring Elementary Students’ Scientific Knowledge Of Agriculture Using Evidence-Centered Design, Molly Brandt, Cory Forbes, Jenny Keshwani

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The public is more disconnected from agriculture than ever. Americans are now two to four generations removed from the farm with a majority of Americans having no direct experience in agriculture. As a result, the public lacks the knowledge and appreciation of the food, fuel, and fiber it demands. The National Agricultural Learning Objectives (NALOs) were recently developed to describe students’ agricultural knowledge but have, as yet, not been used to guide research into students’ agricultural literacy. The purpose of this project is to further understand students’ agricultural literacy through NALO-based assessment of students’ knowledge. This study focused on the …

Corn Silage Variety Trial Archive, Jonathan Kleinjan, David Casper, Kevin K. Kirby, S. M. Hawks

SDSU Extension Publications Archive

This report features the available corn silage data from 2003-2017. Crop performance testing results are released annually through the activities of SDSU Extension and the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station at SDSU.

Cultivate Fall/Winter 2017, Utah State University

Cultivate Magazine

No abstract provided.

Household Food Vulnerability Under An Extreme Weather Event In Sta. Cruz Subwatershed, Laguna, Philippines, Karen P. Quilloy, Agnes C. Rola

Journal of Economics, Management and Agricultural Development

This study is an assessment of the vulnerability of households to food insecurity under an extreme weather event. A subjective-qualitative technique primarily based on the perceived food security status of the households and their food insecurity coping strategies was used to examine household food vulnerability. Key findings reveal that households living in the vulnerable areas of Sta. Cruz subwatershed were generally resilient to extreme weather events and only suffered from slight to moderate form of food security problems. Impacts of extreme weather events on them were generally moderate but the highest impact was observed in their income sources, logistics, and …

Seed Yield Prediction Models Of Four Common Moist-Soil Plant Species In Texas, Daniel P. Collins, Warren C. Conway, Corey D. Mason, Jeffrey W. Gunnels

Faculty Publications

Seed production by moist-soil plant species often varies within and among managed wetlands and on larger landscapes. Quantifying seed production of moist-soil plants can be used to evaluate wetland management strategies and estimate wetland energetic carrying capacity, specifically for waterfowl. In the past, direct estimation techniques were used, but due to excessive personnel and time costs, other indirect methods have been developed. Because indirect seed yield models do not exist for moist-soil plant species in east-central or coastal Texas, we developed direct and indirect methods to model seed production on regional managed wetlands. In September 2004 and 2005, we collected …

Nebline, January 2017

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Feature: Extension 2016 Highlights

Food & Health

Farm & Acreage

Horticulture

Pests & Wildlife

4-H & Youth

Early Childhood

and other extension news and events

Cultivate Spring/Summer 2017, Utah State University

Cultivate Magazine

No abstract provided.

Small Landholders Battle The Leaf Folder: Improving Livelihoods In The Solomon Islands, Dalia Tayseer Najjar

Bard Center for Environmental Policy

Sweet Potato is an important staple food crop grown by subsistence farmers in the Solomon Islands. It plays an important food security role and a major source of nutrition and livelihood in the rural areas as well as urban areas in the country. However, the spread of agricultural pests, in particular, the green leaf folder pest (Psara hipponalis), has significantly increased in recent years leaving many smallholder farmers with reduced yields and food insecurity. In this thesis, I reviewed the literature on the common mechanisms used to evaluate the drivers of pest presence and identified the major factors …

Bumpers College Students In Action, Discovery Editors

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Instructions For Authors, Discovery Editors

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Letter From The Dean, Lona Robertson

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Message From The Faculty Editor, Mary Savin

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Industrial Oilseed Crops For Tennessee, Jason P. De Koff, Prabodh Illukpitiya, Shivam Chawla, Richard Link

Extension Publications

No abstract provided.

Contents, Discovery Editors

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Discovery: The Student Journal Of Dale Bumpers College Of Agricultural, Food And Life Sciences - Volume 18 2017, Several Authors

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Biochar Type And Size On In Vitro Rumen Fermentation Of Orchard Grass Hay, Zach D. Mcfarlane, Phillip R. Myer, Emily R. Cope, Neil D. Evans, T. Carson Bone, Bryan E. Bliss, J. Travis Mulliniks

West Central Research and Extension Center, North Platte

Biochar, a byproduct from the biofuels industry, may be a potential feed additive in ruminant diets due to possible improvements in microbial fermentation. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the nutritive value, in vitro digestibility, volatile fatty acid (VFA) production, and gas production of biochar inclusion to an orchard grass (Dactylis glomerata) basal diet. The study was designed as a 3 × 2 factorial arrangement with 3 different biochar sources and 2 biochar processed sizes as the main effects factors. Experimental treatments were biochar from 3 different tree types: 1) Chestnut Oak (Quercus prinus …

Wild Stimulant Production Methods For American Ginseng Farms In Tennessee, Shannon Smith, John Dubois, Nate Phillips, Arvazena Clardy

Extension Publications

No abstract provided.

Technological Modernization And Its Impact On Agriculture, Fisheries And Fossil Fuel Utilization In The Asia Pacific Countries With Emphasis On Sustainability Perspective, Rajee Olaganathan, Kathleen Quigley

Publications

Modernization is a process that moves towards efficiency. This affects most of the fields such as agriculture, fisheries, forestry, urban planning, policy, fossil fuel usage, manufacturing, technology, economic growth etc. This process plays a major role in moving forward making things faster, better and basically more efficient. The effects of modernization on all these fields bring about the major changes to aspects such as social, economic and the environment. The level of operation has increased from a domestic level; small family scale business to large commercial levels. As the level of operation increased, the utilization of natural resources increased gradually …

Changes In Soil Microbial Communities After 10 Years Of Winter Wheat Cultivation Versus Fallow In An Organic-Poor Soil In The Loess Plateau Of China, Hui Tian, Hui Wang, Xiaoli Hui, Zhaohui Wang, Rhae A. Drijber, Jinshan Liu

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Agricultural management methods, such as cultivation or fallowing, have led to significant changes in soil fertility and hence, crop yield. Such changes may have stemmed from changes in soil microbial communities and associated biogeochemical processes. This phenomenon is particularly true in organic-poor soil in the Loess Plateau of China. In this study, we examined three existing soil management regimes as part of a 10-year field experiment and evaluated their effects on fungal and bacterial community structures by performing high-throughput 454 pyrosequencing. These management regimes were (i) fertilized winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) (FW), (ii) continuous natural fallow with weeds …

Mapping And Characterization Of The Fefe Gene That Controls Iron Uptake In Melon (Cucumis Melo L.), Raghuprakash Kastoori Ramamurthy, Brian M. Waters

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Iron (Fe) deficiency in plants limits crop growth and productivity. Molecular mechanisms that plants use to sense and respond to Fe deficiency by coordinated expression of Feuptake genes are not fully understood. The C940-fe chlorotic melon (Cucumis melo) mutant known as fefe is unable to upregulate Fe-uptake genes, however, the FeFe gene had not been identified. In this study, we used two F₂ mapping populations to map and identify the FeFe gene as bHLH38, a homolog of subgroup Ib bHLH genes from Arabidopsis thaliana that are involved in transcriptional regulation of Feuptake genes in partnership with the …

Nebraska Grazing Conference Proceedings, 2017, Center For Grassland Studies, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln

Nebraska Grazing Conference Proceedings

Fences and Water Points: Where They Should Go by Jim Gerrish

Beef Systems Initiative by Archie Clutter

Grass-based Health and the Ruminant Revolution by Peter Ballerstedt

The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Weedy Plants by Chris Helzer

2016 Leopold Conservation Award Winner by Nancy Peterson

Managing Grassland Vegetation to Benefit Livestock and Wildlife by Patricia Johnson

What is Plant Cover, and How Can We Manage it for Wildlife Needs? by Dwayne Elmore

Producer Panel: Annual Forages vs Row Crops Under Irrigation moderated by John Maddux

Producer Panel: Economics of Grazing Strategies moderated by Jim Jankins

It Costs How Much!? by …

Effects Of Biochar Treatment Of Municipal Biosolids And Horse Manure On Quality Of Runoff From Fescue Plots, Rachel Williams, Dwayne R. Edwards

Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Faculty Publications

Land-applied horse manure and municipal biosolids can increase nutrient and bacteria concentrations in runoff. Biochar has been demonstrated to have beneficial impacts on nutrient retention and runoff quality when used to treat other land-applied organic soil amendments (e.g., poultry manure). The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of biochar addition to horse manure and municipal biosolids on runoff concentrations of nutrients and fecal coliforms. Biochar was added at 5% to 8% (wet basis) to horse manure and biosolids that were applied to 2.4 m x 6.1 m fescue plots followed by application of simulated rainfall (102 mm …

Investigation Of Candidate Loci Associated With Maize Perennialism, Anjun Ma

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Developing perennial grain crops is an effective and crucial way to prevent soil erosion caused by conventional agriculture of using annual crops while meeting the increasing need of global food demand. We hypothesized that the regrowth in Zea might be controlled by two dominant complementary genes. F1 hybrids were created by crossing Zea diploperennis Iltis, Doebley & R. Guzman with annual Zea mays L. ssp. mays inbred line B73. A Total of 134 F2 plants derived from nine F1 were planted and phenotyped. A subpopulation of 94 F2 plants were genotyped with Genotype-by- Sequencing (GBS) and called 10,431 SNPs after …

Enhancing Cellulase Production Of Aureobasidium Pullulans For Use In Converting Dried Distillers’ Grains With Solubles Into A Higher Protein Feed, Emily L. Baldwin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Main limitations of dried distillers’ grains with solubles (DDGS) as meal for monogastric animals is the presence of high fiber content, reduced fat content, and poor amino acid balance. This causes a reduced economic value of DDGS for these species due to its low inclusion rates. The goal of this theses was to create new strains of a fungus, Aureobasidium pullulans, with enhanced cellulase production and use it to optimize an enzymatic saccharification, pretreatment, and fungal conversion process to enhance the nutritional value of DDGS. Various combinations of enzymatic saccharification, physical/chemical pretreatments, and mutant strains of fungi were investigated …

Response Of Soil Properties To 23-25 Years Of Diverse Crop Rotations And Tillage Systems In South Dakota, Usa, Abdullah H. Alhameid

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Diverse cropping systems and no-till (NT) are beneficial in improving soil organic carbon (SOC) and other soils properties. The present study was conducted to evaluate the interactions and impacts of long-term tillage and diverse crop rotation systems on soil quality indicators that include a range of soil chemical, physical, hydrological, and microbial properties. The study was established in 1991 at Beresford, South Dakota and included three crop rotation systems [2-yr; maize (Zea mays L.)-soybean (Glycine max L.), 3-yr; maize-soybean-oat (Avena sativa L.), and 4-yr; maize-soybean-oat-wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)] managed under two tillage systems (NT and CT; conventional- tillage). Soil sampling …