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The Nitrogen-Dependent Gaba Pathway Of Tomato Provides Resistance To A Globally Invasive Fruit Fly, Hao Li, Yuan Zhang, Hu Li, Gadi V. P. Reddy, Zhihong Li, Fajun Chen, Yucheng Sun, Zihua Zhao Jan 2023

The Nitrogen-Dependent Gaba Pathway Of Tomato Provides Resistance To A Globally Invasive Fruit Fly, Hao Li, Yuan Zhang, Hu Li, Gadi V. P. Reddy, Zhihong Li, Fajun Chen, Yucheng Sun, Zihua Zhao

Faculty Publications

Introduction: The primary metabolism of plants, which is mediated by nitrogen, is closely related to the defense response to insect herbivores. Methods: An experimental system was established to examine how nitrogen mediated tomato resistance to an insect herbivore, the oriental fruit fly (Bactrocera dorsalis). All tomatoes were randomly assigned to the suitable nitrogen (control, CK) treatment, nitrogen excess (NE) treatment and nitrogen deficiency (ND) treatment. Results: We found that nitrogen excess significantly increased the aboveground biomass of tomato and increased the pupal biomass of B. dorsalis. Metabolome analysis showed that nitrogen excess promoted the biosynthesis of amino acids in healthy …

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Biology, Genetic Diversity, And Conservation Of Wild Bees In Tree Fruit Orchards, Olivia Kline, Ngoc T. Phan, Mitzy F. Porras, Joshua Chavana, Coleman Z. Little, Lilia Stemet, Roshani S. Acharya, David J. Biddinger, Gadi V.P. Reddy, Edwin G. Rajotte, Neelendra K. Joshi Jan 2023

Biology, Genetic Diversity, And Conservation Of Wild Bees In Tree Fruit Orchards, Olivia Kline, Ngoc T. Phan, Mitzy F. Porras, Joshua Chavana, Coleman Z. Little, Lilia Stemet, Roshani S. Acharya, David J. Biddinger, Gadi V.P. Reddy, Edwin G. Rajotte, Neelendra K. Joshi

Faculty Publications

Different species of bees provide essential ecosystem services by pollinating various agricultural crops, including tree fruits. Many fruits and nuts depend on insect pollination, primarily by wild and managed bees. In different geographical regions where orchard crops are grown, fruit growers rely on wild bees in the farmscape and use orchard bees as alternative pollinators. Orchard crops such as apples, pears, plums, apricots, etc., are mass-flowering crops and attract many different bee species during their bloom period. Many bee species found in orchards emerge from overwintering as the fruit trees start flowering in spring, and the active duration of these …

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“Correct Provision Can Be Made For Their Wants: The Reading Rooms Of The Santa Fe Railroad, Suzanne Stauffer Jan 2023

“Correct Provision Can Be Made For Their Wants: The Reading Rooms Of The Santa Fe Railroad, Suzanne Stauffer

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Gumbo Yearbook, Class Of 2023, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College Jan 2023

Gumbo Yearbook, Class Of 2023, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

Gumbo Yearbook

The Gumbo yearbook chronicles the entire academic year at LSU. In words and especially photos, the Gumbo shows the people, places, and events that make each year unique. In addition to formal portraits of schools and departments, the book contains hundreds of snapshots of students with their friends and dozens of pages showcasing organizations.

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Invasiveness, Biology, Ecology, And Management Of The Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera Frugiperda, Marc Kenis, Giovanni Benelli, Antonio Biondi, Paul André Calatayud, Roger Day, Nicolas Desneux, Rhett D. Harrison, Darren Kriticos, Ivan Rwomushana, Johnnie Van Den Berg, François Verheggen, Yong Jun Zhang, Lakpo Koku Agboyi, Régis Besmer Ahissou, Malick N. Ba, Julio Bernal, Adeney Freitas De Bueno, Yves Carrière, Geraldo Andrade Carvalho, Xue Xin Chen, Lizette Cicero, Hannalene Du Plessis, Regan Early, Patrick Fallet, Komi K.M. Fiaboe, Dnyaneshwar M. Firake, Georg Goergen, Astrid T. Groot, Raul N.C. Guedes, Ankita Gupta, Gao Hu, F. N. Huang, Lara R. Jaber Jan 2023

Invasiveness, Biology, Ecology, And Management Of The Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera Frugiperda, Marc Kenis, Giovanni Benelli, Antonio Biondi, Paul André Calatayud, Roger Day, Nicolas Desneux, Rhett D. Harrison, Darren Kriticos, Ivan Rwomushana, Johnnie Van Den Berg, François Verheggen, Yong Jun Zhang, Lakpo Koku Agboyi, Régis Besmer Ahissou, Malick N. Ba, Julio Bernal, Adeney Freitas De Bueno, Yves Carrière, Geraldo Andrade Carvalho, Xue Xin Chen, Lizette Cicero, Hannalene Du Plessis, Regan Early, Patrick Fallet, Komi K.M. Fiaboe, Dnyaneshwar M. Firake, Georg Goergen, Astrid T. Groot, Raul N.C. Guedes, Ankita Gupta, Gao Hu, F. N. Huang, Lara R. Jaber

Faculty Publications

The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith, 1797), is a serious pest of several crops, particularly maize and other cereals. It has long been known as a pest in the Americas and has invaded most of Africa and parts of the Middle East, Asia, and Australia in the last six years. Its new status as an invasive species causing serious damage in many regions worldwide has highlighted the need for better understanding and has generated much research. In this article, we provide a comprehensive review of FAW covering its (i) taxonomy, biology, ecology, genomics, and microbiome, (ii) worldwide status …

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Cherokee Civil Warrior: Chief John Ross And The Struggle For Tribal Sovereignty, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa Jan 2023

Cherokee Civil Warrior: Chief John Ross And The Struggle For Tribal Sovereignty, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

Civil War Book Review

In Cherokee Civil Warrior, W. Dale Weeks offers several arguments about Cherokee history and United States Indian policy in the Civil War Era while seeking to reframe how scholars understand Chief John Ross’s wartime leadership.

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Perspectives On The Civil War Era, K. Howell Keiser Jr. Jan 2023

Perspectives On The Civil War Era, K. Howell Keiser Jr.

Civil War Book Review

The book reviews and feature essay in this fall 2023 issue of the Civil War Book Review highlight the Civil War Era from the perspectives of various individuals and groups – black sailors and surgeons, women, guerillas, cavalry soldiers, Cherokee warriors, and veterans. The sectional crisis and the war to come shaped the lives of countless individuals, and no one person experienced these years from the same perspective.

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One More War To Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle For Equality Through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, And The Lost Cause, Brian Matthew Jordan Jan 2023

One More War To Fight: Union Veterans’ Battle For Equality Through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, And The Lost Cause, Brian Matthew Jordan

Civil War Book Review

Building from the “Left Armed Corps” (a cohort of veterans who lost their right arms to battle or disease and then entered one of two “left-handed penmanship” competitions soon after the war), Goldman argues that as “Jim Crow took hold on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line, Union veterans individually and collectively maintained their important interconnected roles as potent moral and political forces, particularly through the Grand Army of the Republic.

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Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives Of Black Civil War Surgeon, Margaret Humphreys Jan 2023

Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives Of Black Civil War Surgeon, Margaret Humphreys

Civil War Book Review

Without Concealment, Without Compromise sketches sketching the lives of the fourteen Black men who served as surgeons in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It reveals the courage it took for these men to face the overt racism and hostility that faced the remarkable phenomenon of Black men in uniform.

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Black Sailors In The Civil War: A History Of Fugitives, Freemen And Freedmen Aboard Union Vessels, Christopher Rein Jan 2023

Black Sailors In The Civil War: A History Of Fugitives, Freemen And Freedmen Aboard Union Vessels, Christopher Rein

Civil War Book Review

Black Sailors in the Civil War documents the thousands of Black sailors who served with valor during the Civil War, highlighting their contributions to the Union's impressive naval victories throughout the war.

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The Wild Woman Of Cincinnati: Gender And Politics On The Eve Of The Civil War, Emily Muhich Jan 2023

The Wild Woman Of Cincinnati: Gender And Politics On The Eve Of The Civil War, Emily Muhich

Civil War Book Review

The Wild Woman of Cincinnati explores the case study of a “Wild Woman” show in order to illuminate political and sectional difference in Antebellum America.

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A Wilderness Of Destruction: Confederate Guerrillas Of East And South Florida, 1862–1865, Ralph Mann Jan 2023

A Wilderness Of Destruction: Confederate Guerrillas Of East And South Florida, 1862–1865, Ralph Mann

Civil War Book Review

A Wilderness of Destruction offers a comprehensive survey of guerrilla warfare in east and south Florida. It recounts Union officers being captured while partying and wagon trains seized on the way to Union-held towns and fortifications, as well as battles for towns—Gainesville, Jacksonville. This coverage is vital for understanding Florida’s Civil War.

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Through Blood And Fire: The Civil War Letters Of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862–1865, David J. Eicher Jan 2023

Through Blood And Fire: The Civil War Letters Of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862–1865, David J. Eicher

Civil War Book Review

Through Blood and Fire adds to the understanding of this interesting young officer, whose life was ultimately cut short, and makes the volume of valuable information more widely available, as the original publication was a limited run. The mixture of battle experience and substantial, almost remarkable, staff assignments, yields a unique and interesting perspective on the war that will delight readers interested in the eastern theater.

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Cherokee Civil Warrior: Chief John Ross And The Struggle For Tribal Sovereignty, W. Dale Weeks Jan 2023

Cherokee Civil Warrior: Chief John Ross And The Struggle For Tribal Sovereignty, W. Dale Weeks

Civil War Book Review

"For the Cherokee Nation, the Civil War was more than a contest between the Union and the Confederacy. It was yet another battle in the larger struggle against multiple white governments for land and tribal sovereignty. Cherokee Civil Warrior tells the story of Chief John Ross as he led the tribe in this struggle." - University of Oklahoma Press

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America's Hardscrabble General: Ulysses S. Grant, From Farm Boy To Shiloh, Richard G. Mannion Jan 2023

America's Hardscrabble General: Ulysses S. Grant, From Farm Boy To Shiloh, Richard G. Mannion

Civil War Book Review

"Throughout much of his adult life, disappointment and hardship were Grant’s constant companions. Yet rather than let these circumstances defeat him, Grant endured these hardships, learned valuable life lessons from them and, combined with his formative background, used these lessons to his advantage to become the greatest and most successful battle commander in American military history. So argues Jack Hurst in his compelling and highly engaging America’s Hardscrabble General, Ulysses S. Grant: From Farm Boy to Shiloh."

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Soldiers From Experience: The Forging Of Sherman's Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862 - 1863, Michael A. Boden Jan 2023

Soldiers From Experience: The Forging Of Sherman's Fifteenth Army Corps, 1862 - 1863, Michael A. Boden

Civil War Book Review

"Eric Burke, in his fascinating study, Soldiers from Experience: The Forging of Sherman’s Fifteenth Army Corps 1862 – 1863, examines the development of the Federal XV Corps, from its origins under General William T. Sherman in 1862 through the end of 1863, by which time, Burke argues, the Corps had forged a very particular 'tactical culture' that distinguished it from other units, not only in the Western Theater of operations, but throughout the entire Federal Army."

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Knowing Him By Heart: African Americans On Abraham Lincoln, Lucas E. Morel Jan 2023

Knowing Him By Heart: African Americans On Abraham Lincoln, Lucas E. Morel

Civil War Book Review

Black American’s attitudes toward the Great Emancipator is the focus of Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln (University of Illinois Press), edited by Fred Lee Hord and Matthew D. Norman. The essays show that African Americans’ attitudes toward Lincoln “plumb deeper than his reputation as the Great Emancipator,” writes Morel. Indeed, African Americans; attitudes toward Lincoln from his presidency to the recent past evince a “’persistent ambivalence,’” write Hord and Norman in their introduction. Morel believes that “the value of a book about Black American opinions of Lincoln resides not only in the neglected history it tells, …

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At War With King Alcohol: Debating Drinking And Masculinity In The Civil War, Brendan J. Payne Jan 2023

At War With King Alcohol: Debating Drinking And Masculinity In The Civil War, Brendan J. Payne

Civil War Book Review

At War with King Alcohol is a “persuasively argued” yet “quite readable” volume that connects alcoholic consumption with 19th-c. concepts of masculinity & emergent prohibition laws.

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Leaves Of Grass, Meg Groeling Jan 2023

Leaves Of Grass, Meg Groeling

Civil War Book Review

"Walt Whitman hoped his small, green, unassuming chapbook Leaves of Grass would set the poetic and literary world on fire, but there was, initially, nothing but a spark and then a fizzle. Reviews suggested that Whitman be sent to an insane asylum and that the book itself was “intensely vulgar, nay, absolutely beastly.” Even in 2023, there are divergent opinions concerning the literary worth of Whitman’s masterpiece. But how was it received in 1855?"

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Some American Perspectives On French Intervention, Confederate Recognition, And The Saga Of The Empire Of Mexico, Hans Rasmussen Jan 2023

Some American Perspectives On French Intervention, Confederate Recognition, And The Saga Of The Empire Of Mexico, Hans Rasmussen

Civil War Book Review

Hans Rasmussen examines how several manuscripts housed in LSU's Hill Library's special collections reveal Civil War era Americans' attitudes toward the French intervention in Mexico and its relationship to the Confederates' quest for international recognition.

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To Walk About In Freedom: The Long Emancipation Of Priscilla Joyner, Diane Miller Sommerville Jan 2023

To Walk About In Freedom: The Long Emancipation Of Priscilla Joyner, Diane Miller Sommerville

Civil War Book Review

"To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner is a beautifully written chronicle of one woman’s journey from slavery into freedom. Though short in length—roughly 200 pages of text—it poignantly and effectively conveys the essence of emancipation as lived by one biracial woman raised by a white, slaveholding mother figure who refused to divulge the identity of Priscilla’s Black father."

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The Southern Way Of Life: Meanings Of Culture And Civilization In The American South, William A. Link Jan 2023

The Southern Way Of Life: Meanings Of Culture And Civilization In The American South, William A. Link

Civil War Book Review

"During the past four decades, Charles Reagan Wilson has become a leading interpreter of the American South. Southern Way of Life, which he began writing in 1989, represents a culmination of Wilson’s distinguished career as a historian of southern culture. Informed by critical regionalist theory, he carefully defines the South as a highly diverse place that includes divergent races, ethnic groups, and LGBTQ subcultures. For those interested in a general and very thoughtful survey of the history of the South since 1865, Southern Way of Life will likely become a standard work."

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Vigilance: The Life Of William Still, Father Of The Underground Railroad, Matthew J. Clavin Jan 2023

Vigilance: The Life Of William Still, Father Of The Underground Railroad, Matthew J. Clavin

Civil War Book Review

Reviewer Matthew J. Clavin writes that abolitionist William Still has been overshadowed by prominent antislavery activists like “Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman” and others. However, Andrew K Diemer’s Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad (Alfred A. Knopf) is a “well-written and deeply researched biography” that will ensconce Still’s among the most important abolitionists agitators. The book itself, Clavin writes, will similarly earned “a place on the shelf of new and important works on abolitionists, abolitionism, and the Underground Railroad.”

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Grant At 200: Reconsidering The Life And Legacy Of Ulysses S. Grant, Richard G. Mannion Jan 2023

Grant At 200: Reconsidering The Life And Legacy Of Ulysses S. Grant, Richard G. Mannion

Civil War Book Review

"As [Chris] Scaturro has suggested for years, the name Ulysses S. Grant indeed belongs in the Pantheon with the other greatest of American heroes. What had been written in his name for so long is a historical disgrace and a sad commentary of that bygone historical community. His 'reputational renaissance' is long overdue, and this piece of literature is just one more recent convincing development that will allow Grant to earn his just do."

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Chained To History: Slavery And U.S. Foreign Relations To 1865, Robert Bonner Jan 2023

Chained To History: Slavery And U.S. Foreign Relations To 1865, Robert Bonner

Civil War Book Review

"With Chained to History, Stephen Brady makes a signal contribution to nineteenth-century history: producing a comprehensive, well-written, and authoritative one-volume account of the impact of Black slavery on early U.S. statecraft."

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The Gospel Of Freedom: Black Evangelicals And The Underground Railroad, Richard Newman Jan 2023

The Gospel Of Freedom: Black Evangelicals And The Underground Railroad, Richard Newman

Civil War Book Review

Just as Diemer reveals the importance of one man to the Underground Railroad, Alicestyne Turley’s The Gospel of Freedom: Black Evangelicals and the Underground Railroad (University Press of Kentucky) reveals how one state, Kentucky, was an integral if overlooked part of African Americans’ quest for emancipation in the long-nineteenth century. Reviewer Richard Newman believes Turley’s most important contribution is her contention that Black religious leaders made “Kentucky a viable pass-through locale for generations of African American freedom seekers,” which makes the state a peer of other “major crossroads of the Underground Railroad,” like “Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, and Ohio.” Newman …

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New Framing For Familiar Topics, Jeffery Hardin Hobson Jan 2023

New Framing For Familiar Topics, Jeffery Hardin Hobson

Civil War Book Review

Book reviews and feature essays in this issue of the Civil War Book Review touch on familiar topics—emancipation, Lincoln’s relationship to African Americans, the Civil War in an international context, commander biographies, Civil War unit histories, gender, southern culture, and Civil War era literature. However, the essays and books featured herein approach these familiar topics from new angles and, as a result, provide fresh insight into otherwise standard subjects.

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Data From A Tidal Cycle Continuous Survey Using Adcp And Ctd In Sand Shoal Inlet, Virginia., Chunyan Li Jan 2023

Data From A Tidal Cycle Continuous Survey Using Adcp And Ctd In Sand Shoal Inlet, Virginia., Chunyan Li

WAVCIS

These are data files from a 12.5-hour continuous survey done in Sand Shoal Inlet in Eastern Shore of Virginia on the Delmarva Peninsula. There are two sets of data files. The first has records of 42 files for current profiles from an ADCP mounted on a small boat running along 4 waypoints repeatedly, forming an hourglass. These 42 files have three types: the raw velocity data, the processed velocity data, the navigation files, all from the RDI’s old program Transect. All these files except the navigation files are binary in format. These files are readable using the RDI’s program. The …

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History, Annotated Gazetteer, And Bibliography Of Sarawak Ornithology, Frederick H. Sheldon, Dency F. Gawain, Daisy G. S. Kho, Rosalina Regai, Subir B. Shakya, Chin Aik Yeap Jan 2023

History, Annotated Gazetteer, And Bibliography Of Sarawak Ornithology, Frederick H. Sheldon, Dency F. Gawain, Daisy G. S. Kho, Rosalina Regai, Subir B. Shakya, Chin Aik Yeap

Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University

Sarawak is Malaysia’s largest state, covering most of northern Borneo. It has a remarkable history of scientific bird study, starting in the 1840s and growing ever since. To set the stage for the gazetteer, which is the core of this paper, we start with a review of this history and discuss various forces that have influenced the direction of bird research in the state. Following this introduction comes the gazetteer, which is an annotated list of c. 865 sites in Sarawak where birds have been collected, studied, or regularly observed. The gazetteer provides the latitude, longitude, and elevation of each …

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Se Jeter À L'Eau Avec Les Poissons De La Louisiane, Prosanta Chakrabarty, Sophie Warny, Valérie Stampley Jan 2023

Se Jeter À L'Eau Avec Les Poissons De La Louisiane, Prosanta Chakrabarty, Sophie Warny, Valérie Stampley

Special Publications of the Museum of Natural Science

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