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Factors Influencing Adoption Of Cattle Excreta Management Practices For Improved Elephant Grass (Pennisetum Purpureum) Production By Smallholder Dairy Farmers, Fred Kabi, F. B. Bareeba

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Vigna Luteola And Vigna Longifolia: The Potential Of Local Ecotypes From Humid Rangelands Of Southern Brazil, Hermes Benedete, Abdon Schmitt, Fabio Martins, Alden Nacimanto

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Impact Of Zinc Excess On Germination, Growth Parameters And Oxidative Stress Of Sweet Basil (Ocimum Basilicum L.), Hela Mahmoudi, Imene Ben Salah, Wafa Zaouali, Walid Zorrig, Ameni Smaoui, Ali Taheri, Margaret Gruber, Zeineb Ouerghi, Karim Hosni

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

In the present study, the effects of elevated zinc concentrations on germination, physiological and biochemical parameters were investigated in basil (Ocimum basilicum L.). Results indicate that zinc excess (1–5 mM ZnSO4) did not affect germination process, but it drastically reduced vigor index and radicle elongation, and induced oxidative stress. Exposure of basil plants to 400 and 800 µM Zn decreased aerial parts and roots dry biomass, root length and leaf number. Under these conditions, the reduction of plant growth was associated with the formation of branched and abnormally shaped brown roots. Translocation factor < 1 and bioconcentration factor > 1 was observed for 100 µM Zn …

Comparison Of Productivity Among Alfalfa Varieties With Different Fall Dormancy, Chengzhang Wang, Xuebing Yan, Yuxia Guo, Yongge Gao, Yanhua Wang

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Adaptability Of Cleistogenes Songorica To Drought Stress, Tao Qu, Zhibiao Nan

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Study On Determinate And Indeterminate Growth Habit Of Alfalfa, Jinhua Li, Xinshi Lu, Jishan Chen

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Growth Response Of Alfalfa Cultivars And Change In Soil Nutrient Availability By Lime Application In Acid Soils, Yanjun Guo, Jianguo Huang, Jianguo Han

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Volume 4, Chapter 1-6: Aquatic And Wet Marchantiophyta Order Jungermanniales: Lophocoleineae, Part 2, Myliineae, Perssoniellineae, Janice M. Glime

Bryophyte Ecology Subchapters

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Supplemental Garlic On The Incidence Of Anemia In Horses, Victoria Willis

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Garlic (Allium sativum L.) is a spice that has been used for centuries for medicinal purposes or flavoring in food. Garlic has also been commonly used as a fly and pest control for horses and is still commonly used for that purpose today. Recent research has shown garlic may cause Heinz body anemia in horses. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence of Heinz body anemia in horses supplemented with varying rates of garlic. This study included 12 horses divided into 4 groups (control and 3 supplement rates: low (0.0625 g/kg), medium (0.125 g/kg), high (0.1875 g/kg)) …

Nebline, April 2021

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Experiential Learning Teaches Skills and More

DIY FitBall: A Fun Fitness Activity

Recipe of the Month

Get Ready to Control Pine Tip Blight

Garden Guide

2021 Prennial Plant of the Year

Naturally Occurring Elements in Groundwater, Part 2 of a Series: Iron and Manganese

No Bull! Examine Your Sires’ Breeding Soundness

Inspiring Rich Conversations through Questions by Sarah Roberts

Become a Community Scientist by Kait Chapman

Hearto f 4-H Volunteer Award: James Blake

4-H Announcements for 4-H'ers and Volunteers

Watch Chicks Hatch on Egg Cam

4-H Achievement Celebration

Extension Calendar

2021 Weed Awareness

Controlling and Managing Phragmites

Take 2, Two …

Responses Of Soil Surface Greenhouse Gas Emissions To Nitrogen And Sulfur Fertilizer Rates To Brassica Carinata Grown As A Bio-Jet Fuel, Dwarika Bhattarai, Gandura O. Abagandura, Thandiwe Nleya, Sandeep Kumar

Agronomy, Horticulture and Plant Science Faculty Publications

Carinata (Brassica carinata A. Braun), a non-food oilseed crop and an alternative bio-jet fuel feedstock, has received attention for its potential as a low-input option for production in the semi-arid region of the Northern Great Plains of the United States. Research addressing the impacts of nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) fertilizers on soils and greenhouse gas (GHG; CO₂, N₂O, and CH₄) emissions from carinata production are limited. Thus, objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of different rates of N and S fertilizers applied to carinata on soil properties and GHG …

Growing South Dakota (Spring 2021), College Of Agriculture, Food And Environmental Sciences

Growing South Dakota (Publication of the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences)

This issue contains the 2020 SDSU Extension Annual Report and 2020 South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Annual Report.

[Page] 3 COVID-19 Impacts
[Page] 9 Precision Agriculture: What's New
[Page] 13 Featured Research
[Page] 19 SDSU Extension 2020 Annual Report
[Page] 45 South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station 2020 Annual Report
[Page] 55 CAFES News and Updates
[Page] 67 Alumni News
[Page] 75 Alumni Gone Down in History
[Page] 81 Jackrabbits Now and Then: A Current Student and Alumni Q&A

Comparing A Mixed Model Approach To Traditional Stability Estimators For Mapping Genotype By Environment Interactions And Yield Stability In Soybean [Glycine Max (L.) Merr.], Mary M. Happ, George L. Graef, Haichuan Wang, Reka Howard, Luis Posadas, David L. Hyten

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Identifying genetic loci associated with yield stability has helped plant breeders and geneticists begin to understand the role and influence of genotype by environment (GxE) interactions in soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] productivity, as well as other crops. Quantifying a genotype’s range of performance across testing locations has been developed over decades with dozens of methodologies available. This includes directly modeling GxE interactions as part of an overall model for yield, as well as methods which generate overall yield “stability” values from multi-environment trial data. Correspondence between these methods as it pertains to the outcomes of genome wide association studies …

Taxonomic Microbiome Profiling And Abundance Patterns In The Cacao (Theobroma Cacao L.) Rhizosphere Treated With Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi And Bamboo Biochar, Angelbert D. Cortes, Nelly S. Aggangan, Rina B. Opulencia

The Philippine Agricultural Scientist

Biochar and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are agricultural interventions adopted by farmers to improve the growth of crops in nutrient-deficient acidic soil, which relatively influence the biological properties in the rhizosphere. This greenhouse study investigated the changes in prokaryotic diversity in the rhizosphere of cacao plants grown in acidic soil with AMF and bamboo biochar (BB) for 15 months under nursery conditions. Metagenomic analysis of the V3-V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene of the rhizosphere with AMF, 15% BB, and AMF + 15% BB revealed that the addition of AMF and BB reduced the sample's diversity, but the treatments …

Soil Erosion Modelling: A Bibliometric Analysis, Nejc Bezak, Matjǎz Mikǒs, Pasquale Borrelli, Christine Alewell, Dinesh Panday, Panos Panagos, 59 Co-Authors

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Soil erosion can present a major threat to agriculture due to loss of soil, nutrients, and organic carbon. Therefore, soil erosion modelling is one of the steps used to plan suitable soil protection measures and detect erosion hotspots. A bibliometric analysis of this topic can reveal research patterns and soil erosion modelling characteristics that can help identify steps needed to enhance the research conducted in this field. Therefore, a detailed bibliometric analysis, including investigation of collaboration networks and citation patterns, should be conducted. The updated version of the Global Applications of Soil Erosion Modelling Tracker (GASEMT) database contains information about …

The Role Of Α-Tocopherol In Mitigating The Effect Of Elevated Co2 Concentrations Emitted From The Al-Hunay Power Plant Main Station On Glycine Max L. Plants, Mohammed Abdulrahman Almuwayhi

The Philippine Agricultural Scientist

Soybean (Glycine max L.), belonging to Leguminosae, is an essential food in Asian countries. It has become a necessity to study the long-term effects of elevated concentrations of CO₂ on plant growth and development. Climate change may be affected by the increment of CO₂ and higher temperatures on crops. Elevated concentrations of atmospheric CO₂ can negatively affect the yield as well as the quality of the field crops. Alpha-tocopherol is the major vitamin E compound found in leaf chloroplasts. This antioxidant deactivates photosynthesis-derived reactive oxygen species and prevents the propagation of lipid peroxidation by scavenging lipid …

The Effect Of Fallow Season Cover Crops On Nutrient Cycling And Soil Health In Row Crop Production In The Mid-South, Kritsanee Iamjud

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The reliance on conventional cropping has profoundly impacted agricultural sustainability and resulted in soil degradation. Winter cover crops can preserve the soil surface, recycle soil nutrients, and improve soil health. Hence, the role of cover crops in Louisiana row-crop production was examined in small-scale plots and large-scale on-farm studies at three sites in Northeast Louisiana from 2017 to 2020. Additionally, mixed cover crops degradation and nutrient release were evaluated at Macon Ridge and Dean Lee sites to determine the optimum time of nutrient availability after cover crop termination. The small-scale results showed that integrating cover crops for corn (Zea …

Genetic Diversity Of Purple Passion Fruit, Passiflora Edulis F. Edulis, Based On Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Markers Discovered Through Genotyping By Sequencing, Nohra Cecilia Rodriguez Castillo, Xingbo Wu, María Isabel Chacón, Luz Marina Melgarejo, Matthew Wohlgemuth Blair

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

Orphan crops, which include many of the tropical fruit species used in the juice industry, lack genomic resources and breeding efforts. Typical of this dilemma is the lack of commercial cultivars of purple passion fruit, Passiflora edulis f. edulis, and of information on the genetic resources of its substantial semiwild gene pool. In this study, we develop single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers for the species and show that the genetic diversity of this fruit crop has been reduced because of selection for cultivated genotypes compared to the semiwild landraces in its center of diversity. A specific objective of the present study …

The Study On The Mathematics Model Of Forage Type Mulberry High‐Output Cultivation And Optimizing Plan, Shuangyin Sun

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Dendrolobium Spp. — A Source Of Tropical Multipurpose Legumes, R. Schultze‐Kraft, M. Peters, L. H. Franco, B. Hincapié

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Association Of Trees And Crops To Increase Seasonal Food Availability In The Republic Of Haity, F. Massolino, Andrea Pardini

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Fodder Yield And Nutritive Value Of Turkish Highlands Shrubs, K. Kokten, O. Gursoy, A. Larbi, T. Tukel, R. Hatipoglu

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Animal Grazing On Quality Of Grass And Forb Forages In Mazandaran Province Of Iran, Ghasem Ali Dianati Tilaki

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Breeding For An Alternative Wheat Ecoideotype To The Southern Brazilian Region, E. Caierãol, Renato S. Fontaneli, Rob S. Fontaneli, L. De J. A. Del Duca

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Integration Of Tree Fodder Into Traditional Goat Production Systems Of Uganda, S. G. Byenkya, C. Ebong, S. Kayuwa

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

Electrophysiological And Behavioral Responses Of An Ambrosia Beetle To Volatiles Of Its Nutritional Fungal Symbiont, Christopher M. Ranger, Marek Dzurenko, Jenny Barnett, Ruchika Geedi, Louela Castrillo, Matthew Ethington, Matthew Ginzel, Karla Addesso, Michael E. Reding

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

Ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytinae) cultivate their fungal symbiont within host substrates as the sole source of nutrition on which the larvae and adults must feed. To investigate a possible role for semiochemicals in this interaction, we characterized electrophysiological and behavioral responses of Xylosandrus germanus to volatiles associated with its fungal symbiont Ambrosiella grosmanniae. During still-air walking bioassays, X. germanus exhibited an arrestment response to volatiles of A. grosmanniae, but not antagonistic fungi Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium brunneum, Trichoderma harzianum, the plant pathogen Fusarium proliferatum, or malt extract agar. Solid phase microextraction-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry identified 2-ethyl-1-hexanol, …

Non-Coding Rna Influence On Manganese Peroxidase Quantity Variation In Isogenic Corn Lines., Amber Booth

Student Theses and Dissertations

New technologies are vital for growing industries that require large amounts of enzymes at a cheaper production cost. Plant transformation technologies coupled with established cropping systems have allowed us to produce enzymes at more efficient rates than ever before. During breeding, offspring are selected for high production of the enzyme of interest and discontinues lines of low production. This continued range is an observed phenomenon in increasingly isogenic lines, but not fully understood. We hypothesize that distinct populations of non-coding RNAs in isogenic corn lines influence enzyme accumulation in seed. This project sequenced high and low manganese peroxidase (MnP)-expressing families …

Investigation Of The State Of Dna Methylation In High And Low Protein Accumulating Maize Lines, Akash Lal

Student Theses and Dissertations

Transgenic plant-based production for industrial enzymes is an evolutionary tool. Green bio- factories have powerful potential to produce desirable product on the most economical and efficient level. Seed itself provides protein a very stable environment, solving the problem of storage. Transgenic plants easily scale up production. Increasing population, climate change and low amounts of arable land create a damaging situation for which a plant-based production system is beneficial. The transgenic plant-based production system rather than microbial fermentation is a solution for this rising scenario. Epigenetics is a natural phenomenon which causes heritable changes in gene expression alternative to the involvement …

Induction And Characterization Of Microspore Embryogenesis In Soybean (Glycine Max [L.] Merrill), Bretton M. Hale

Student Theses and Dissertations

Gametophytic embryogenesis is a method used to achieve homozygosity in plant breeding programs. However, its application is limited within the Fabaceae, which has historically demonstrated morphogenic recalcitrance in comparison to other plant families (i.e., Brassicaceae and Poaceae). Here, the immature male gametophyte — or microspore — was used to investigate gametophytic embryogenesis in soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merrill). In so doing, an induction regimen was optimized to support embryogenic growth through pretreatment temperature shock, a nitrogen starvation medium, and other post-isolation culture conditions. In addition, parallels were drawn between soybean microspore cytology and that which has been reported in model …

Domestication Of Mediterranean Annual Pasture Legumes For Australian Farming Systems, P. G. H. Nichols, Angelo Loi, B. J. Nutt, R. Snowball, Clinton K. Revell

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.