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Diverging Landscape Impacts On Macronutrient Status Despite Overlapping Diets In Managed (Apis Mellifera) And Native (Melissodes Desponsa) Bees, Christina L. Mogren, Mariá Soledad Benítez, Kevin Mccarter, Frédéric Boyer, Jonathan G. Lundgren Jan 2020

Diverging Landscape Impacts On Macronutrient Status Despite Overlapping Diets In Managed (Apis Mellifera) And Native (Melissodes Desponsa) Bees, Christina L. Mogren, Mariá Soledad Benítez, Kevin Mccarter, Frédéric Boyer, Jonathan G. Lundgren

Faculty Publications

Declining pollinator populations worldwide are attributed to multiple stressors, including the loss of quality forage. Habitat management in agricultural areas often targets honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) specifically, with the assumption that native bees will benefit from an 'umbrella species' strategy. We tested this theory using a conservation physiology approach to compare the effects of landscape composition and floral dietary composition on the physiological status of honey bees and Melissodes desponsa in eastern South Dakota, USA. The total glycogen, lipid and protein concentrations were quantified from field collected bees. Next-generation sequencing of the trnL chloroplast gene from bee guts was …

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The Association Between Selected Molecular Biomarkers And Ambulatory Blood Pressure Patterns In African Chronic Kidney Disease And Hypertensive Patients Compared With Normotensive Controls: Protocol For A Longitudinal Study, Abiodun Moshood Adeoye, Oladimeji Adebayo, Busayo Abiola, Bamidele Iwalokun, Bamidele Tayo, Fadi Charchar, Akinlolu Ojo, Richard Cooper Jan 2020

The Association Between Selected Molecular Biomarkers And Ambulatory Blood Pressure Patterns In African Chronic Kidney Disease And Hypertensive Patients Compared With Normotensive Controls: Protocol For A Longitudinal Study, Abiodun Moshood Adeoye, Oladimeji Adebayo, Busayo Abiola, Bamidele Iwalokun, Bamidele Tayo, Fadi Charchar, Akinlolu Ojo, Richard Cooper

Faculty Publications

Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a burgeoning epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Abnormal blood pressure variations are prevalent in CKD and potentiate the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Certain genetic variants (angiotensin II receptor type 1 1166 A>C and angiotensin-converting enzyme insertion and deletion polymorphisms) and biomarkers such as interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor, soluble (s) E-selectin, homocysteine, and highly sensitive C-reactive protein have been shown to affect blood pressure variability among non-African CKD, hypertensive. and nonhypertensive CKD population. However, the contributions of the pattern, genetic, and environmental determinants of ambulatory blood pressure in African CKD have not been …

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Lsu General Catalog 2020-2021, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College Jan 2020

Lsu General Catalog 2020-2021, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

LSU General Catalog

The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The LSU General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

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The Buzz About Bee Campuses: Student Thoughts Regarding Pollinator Conservation, Hannah Penn, Jerrod Penn, Macy Hagan, Wuyang Hu Jan 2020

The Buzz About Bee Campuses: Student Thoughts Regarding Pollinator Conservation, Hannah Penn, Jerrod Penn, Macy Hagan, Wuyang Hu

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Early Detection Of Parkinson's Disease Using Deep Learning And Machine Learning, Wu Wang, Junho Lee, Fouzi Harrou, Ying Sun Jan 2020

Early Detection Of Parkinson's Disease Using Deep Learning And Machine Learning, Wu Wang, Junho Lee, Fouzi Harrou, Ying Sun

Faculty Publications

Accurately detecting Parkinson's disease (PD) at an early stage is certainly indispensable for slowing down its progress and providing patients the possibility of accessing to disease-modifying therapy. Towards this end, the premotor stage in PD should be carefully monitored. An innovative deep-learning technique is introduced to early uncover whether an individual is affected with PD or not based on premotor features. Specifically, to uncover PD at an early stage, several indicators have been considered in this study, including Rapid Eye Movement and olfactory loss, Cerebrospinal fluid data, and dopaminergic imaging markers. A comparison between the proposed deep learning model and …

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Vicksburg: Grant’S Campaign That Broke The Confederacy, Fred L. Johnson Jan 2020

Vicksburg: Grant’S Campaign That Broke The Confederacy, Fred L. Johnson

Civil War Book Review

In the “Acknowledgements” for Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy, Donald L. Miller states that when he started doing research for the book in 1997, he went to Vicksburg and started exploring “by car, on foot, and in a rented power boat the broken terrain and serpentine waterways that” General Ulysses S. Grant “had to surmount to take the town.” (503) He did that to gain an awareness that empowered him to produce a history of the campaign that had a “palpable feel for the physical setting in which the characters” interacted, and in which “the story …

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Using Community Phylogenetics To Assess Phylogenetic Structure In The Fitzcarrald Region Of Western Amazonia, Jack M. Craig, Tiago P. Carvalho, Prosanta Chakrabarty, Valerie Derouen, Hernán Ortega, Paulo Petry, Roberto E. Reis, Victor A. Tagliacollo, James S. Albert Jan 2020

Using Community Phylogenetics To Assess Phylogenetic Structure In The Fitzcarrald Region Of Western Amazonia, Jack M. Craig, Tiago P. Carvalho, Prosanta Chakrabarty, Valerie Derouen, Hernán Ortega, Paulo Petry, Roberto E. Reis, Victor A. Tagliacollo, James S. Albert

Faculty Publications

© 2020 The Authors. Di versity and Distributions Published by SBI. Here we explore the use of community phylogenetics as a tool to document patterns of biodiversity in the Fitzcarrald region, a remote area in Southwestern Amazonia. For these analyses, we subdivide the region into basin-wide assemblages encompassing the headwaters of four Amazonian tributaries (Urubamba, Yuruá, Purús and Las Piedras basins), and habitat types: river channels, terra firme (non-floodplain) streams, and floodplain lakes. We present a robust, well-documented collection of fishes from the region including 272 species collected from 132 field sites over 63 field days and four years, comprising …

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Extensive Paraphyly In The Typical Owl Family (Strigidae), Jessie F. Salter, Carl H. Oliveros, Peter A. Hosner, Joseph D. Manthey, Mark B. Robbins, Robert G. Moyle, Robb T. Brumfield, Brant C. Faircloth Jan 2020

Extensive Paraphyly In The Typical Owl Family (Strigidae), Jessie F. Salter, Carl H. Oliveros, Peter A. Hosner, Joseph D. Manthey, Mark B. Robbins, Robert G. Moyle, Robb T. Brumfield, Brant C. Faircloth

Faculty Publications

© 2019 American Ornithological Society 2019. Published by Oxford University Press for the American Ornithological Society. The typical owl family (Strigidae) comprises 194 species in 28 genera, 14 of which are monotypic. Relationships within and among genera in the typical owls have been challenging to discern because mitochondrial data have produced equivocal results and because many monotypic genera have been omitted from previous molecular analyses. Here, we collected and analyzed DNA sequences of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) from 43 species of typical owls to produce concatenated and multispecies coalescent-based phylogenetic hypotheses for all but one genus in the typical owl family. …

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Interspecific Variation In Hypoxia Tolerance And Hypoxia Acclimation Responses In Killifish From The Family Fundulidae, Brittney G. Borowiec, Ryan D. Hoffman, Chelsea D. Hess, Fernando Galvez, Graham R. Scott Jan 2020

Interspecific Variation In Hypoxia Tolerance And Hypoxia Acclimation Responses In Killifish From The Family Fundulidae, Brittney G. Borowiec, Ryan D. Hoffman, Chelsea D. Hess, Fernando Galvez, Graham R. Scott

Faculty Publications

© 2020. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd Hypoxia is a pervasive stressor in aquatic environments, and both phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary adaptation could shape the ability to cope with hypoxia. We investigated evolved variation in hypoxia tolerance and the hypoxia acclimation response across fundulid killifishes that naturally experience different patterns of hypoxia exposure. We compared resting O2 consumption rate (M O2), and various indices of hypoxia tolerance [critical O2 tension (Pcrit), regulation index (RI), O2 tension (PO2) at loss of equilibrium (PLOE) and time to LOE (tLOE) at 0.6 kPa O2] in Fundulus confluentus, Fundulus diaphanus, Fundulus heteroclitus, …

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Disrupting An(Other): Sexuality As Political Resistance, Emma C. Downey Jan 2020

Disrupting An(Other): Sexuality As Political Resistance, Emma C. Downey

Master’s Theses

If sexual knowledge can threaten social and political institutions and their control, how do the contents and subjects of literature and publications in the interwar period make that legible? Moreover, if female sexuality–represented or real–was seen as something disruptive to the normal functioning of society, did sexuality offer a useful entry point for social, political, or ideological critiques of the interwar period? My project responds to these questions by analyzing the lives and writings of two female authors of the interwar period: Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) and Katharine Burdekin (1896-1963). In my analysis, I focus on two major points of connection. …

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Potential Predictability Of Net Primary Production In The Ocean, K.M. Krumhardt, N.S. Lovenduski, M.C. Long, J.Y. Luo, K. Lindsay, S. Yeager, C. Harrison Jan 2020

Potential Predictability Of Net Primary Production In The Ocean, K.M. Krumhardt, N.S. Lovenduski, M.C. Long, J.Y. Luo, K. Lindsay, S. Yeager, C. Harrison

Faculty Publications

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Eddy-Modified Iron, Light, And Phytoplankton Cell Division Rates In The Simulated Southern Ocean, T. Rohr, C. Harrison, M.C. Long, P. Gaube, S.C. Doney Jan 2020

Eddy-Modified Iron, Light, And Phytoplankton Cell Division Rates In The Simulated Southern Ocean, T. Rohr, C. Harrison, M.C. Long, P. Gaube, S.C. Doney

Faculty Publications

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Thermal Stability And Flame Resistance Of The Coextruded Wood-Plastic Composites Containing Talc-Filled Plastic Shells, Runzhou Huang, Xian Zhang, Zhilin Chen, Minli Wan, Qinglin Wu Jan 2020

Thermal Stability And Flame Resistance Of The Coextruded Wood-Plastic Composites Containing Talc-Filled Plastic Shells, Runzhou Huang, Xian Zhang, Zhilin Chen, Minli Wan, Qinglin Wu

Faculty Publications

Talc is a popular filler for the fabrication of plastic composites. The presence of talc helps improve mechanical, thermal, and flame resistance properties of the composite. In this work, we report the influence of a talc-filled plastic shell layer on thermal stability and fire flammability of the core-shell structured wood high-density polyethylene (HDPE) composites manufactured through coextrusion. The result showed that morphological analysis of the char layer after combustion confirmed the formation of a continuous surface char layer with talc addition in the composites, helping block fire penetration and enhance overall fire resistance of the composites. The shell thickness averaged …

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Side Information Dependence As A Regularizer For Analyzing Human Brain Conditions Across Cognitive Experiments, Shuo Zhou, Wenwen Li, Christopher R. Cox, Haiping Lu Jan 2020

Side Information Dependence As A Regularizer For Analyzing Human Brain Conditions Across Cognitive Experiments, Shuo Zhou, Wenwen Li, Christopher R. Cox, Haiping Lu

Faculty Publications

The increasing of public neuroimaging datasets opens a door to analyzing homogeneous human brain conditions across datasets by transfer learning (TL). However, neuroimaging data are high-dimensional, noisy, and with small sample sizes. It is challenging to learn a robust model for data across different cognitive experiments and subjects. A recent TL approach minimizes domain dependence to learn common cross-domain features, via the Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion (HSIC). Inspired by this approach and the multi-source TL theory, we propose a Side Information Dependence Regularization (SIDeR) learning framework for TL in brain condition decoding. Specifically, SIDeR simultaneously minimizes the empirical risk and the …

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Emerging Infectious Disease, The Household Built Environment Characteristics, And Urban Planning: Evidence On Avian Influenza In Vietnam, James H. Spencer, Melissa L. Finucane, Jefferson M. Fox, Sumeet Saksena, Nargis Sultana Jan 2020

Emerging Infectious Disease, The Household Built Environment Characteristics, And Urban Planning: Evidence On Avian Influenza In Vietnam, James H. Spencer, Melissa L. Finucane, Jefferson M. Fox, Sumeet Saksena, Nargis Sultana

Faculty Publications

Recent concerns with pandemic outbreaks of human disease and their origins in animal populations have ignited concerns regarding connections between Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) and development. As disasters, health, and infectious disease become part of planning concern (Matthew & McDonald, 2007), greater focus on household infrastructure and EID disease outbreaks among poultry is warranted. Following Spencer (2013), this study examines the relationship between the mix of household-scale water supplies, sanitation systems, and construction materials, and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) among poultry in a developing country: Vietnam. Findings of our multivariate logistic regressions suggest that a non-linear, Kuznets-shaped urban transition …

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A Perspective On The Transition To Plant-Based Diets: A Diet Change May Attenuate Climate Change, But Can It Also Attenuate Obesity And Chronic Disease Risk, Faidon Magkos, Inge Tetens, Susanne Gjedsted Bügel, Claus Felby, Simon Rønnow Schacht, James O. Hill, Eric Ravussin, Arne Astrup Jan 2020

A Perspective On The Transition To Plant-Based Diets: A Diet Change May Attenuate Climate Change, But Can It Also Attenuate Obesity And Chronic Disease Risk, Faidon Magkos, Inge Tetens, Susanne Gjedsted Bügel, Claus Felby, Simon Rønnow Schacht, James O. Hill, Eric Ravussin, Arne Astrup

Clinical Research Faculty Publications

Current dietary guidelines advocate more plant-based, sustainable diets on the basis of scientific evidence about diet-health relations but also to address environmental concerns. Here, we critically review the effects of plant-based diets on the prevalence of obesity and other health outcomes. Plant-based diets per se have limited efficacy for the prevention and treatment of obesity, but most have beneficial effects in terms of chronic disease risk. However, with the considerable possibilities of translating plant-based diets into various types of dietary patterns, our analysis suggests that potential adverse health effects should also be considered in relation to vulnerable groups of the …

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The Environmental Foodprint Of Obesity, Faidon Magkos, Inge Tetens, Susanne Gjedsted Bügel, Claus Felby, Simon Rønnow Schacht, James O. Hill, Eric Ravussin, Arne Astrup Jan 2020

The Environmental Foodprint Of Obesity, Faidon Magkos, Inge Tetens, Susanne Gjedsted Bügel, Claus Felby, Simon Rønnow Schacht, James O. Hill, Eric Ravussin, Arne Astrup

Clinical Research Faculty Publications

Emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) are linked to global warming and adverse climate changes. Meeting the needs of the increasing number of people on the planet presents a challenge for reducing total GHG burden. A further challenge may be the size of the average person on the planet and the increasing number of people with excess body weight. We used data on GHG emissions from various sources and estimated that obesity is associated with ~20% greater GHG emissions compared with the normal-weight state. On a global scale, obesity contributes to an extra GHG emissions of ~49 megatons per year of …

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The Love Of Aerial Practice: Art, Embodiment, Phronesis, Maria Kosma, Nick Erickson Jan 2020

The Love Of Aerial Practice: Art, Embodiment, Phronesis, Maria Kosma, Nick Erickson

Faculty Publications

Background of study: Given the importance of movement and low exercise adherence among young adults, it is imperative to understand reasons for the love of movement. Objective: The purpose of this phronetic, qualitative study was to examine if the values of aerial practice encompassed elements of embodiment, techne (art), and phronesis (practical wisdom). Method: Participants were 13 undergraduate college students in an aerial practice class. Individual-based interview topics included exercise behavior and the values and meaning of aerial practice. Results: All participants were active regardless of aerial practice classification (e.g., beginners vs advanced). Beyond aerial practice, other exercises included dancing, …

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Prenatal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Exposure And Accelerated Offspring Dna Methylation Age In Early Childhood, Stephanie Shiau, Leishen Wang, Huikun Liu, Yinan Zheng, Alex Drong, Brian T. Joyce, Jun Wang, Weiqin Li, Junhong Leng, Yun Shen, Ru Gao, Gang Hu, Lifang Hou, Andrea A. Baccarelli Jan 2020

Prenatal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Exposure And Accelerated Offspring Dna Methylation Age In Early Childhood, Stephanie Shiau, Leishen Wang, Huikun Liu, Yinan Zheng, Alex Drong, Brian T. Joyce, Jun Wang, Weiqin Li, Junhong Leng, Yun Shen, Ru Gao, Gang Hu, Lifang Hou, Andrea A. Baccarelli

Population and Public Health Science Faculty Publications

Background: We investigated the association between prenatal GDM exposure and offspring DNA methylation (DNAm) age at 3-10 years of age in the Tianjin GDM Observational Study. Methods: This study included 578 GDM and 578 non-GDM mother-child pairs. Children underwent a physical exam that included anthropometric measurements and a blood draw for DNAm analysis (Illumina 850K array) at a median age of 5.9 years (range 3.1-10.2). DNAm age was calculated using two epigenetic clock algorithms (Horvath and Hannum). The residual resulting from regressing DNAm age on chronological age was used as a metric for age acceleration. Results: Chronological age was positively …

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Plasma Metabolomic Profile In Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension, Gustavo A. Heresi, Jacob T. Mey, John R. Bartholomew, Ihab S. Haddadin, Adriano R. Tonelli, Raed A. Dweik, John P. Kirwan, Satish C. Kalhan Jan 2020

Plasma Metabolomic Profile In Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension, Gustavo A. Heresi, Jacob T. Mey, John R. Bartholomew, Ihab S. Haddadin, Adriano R. Tonelli, Raed A. Dweik, John P. Kirwan, Satish C. Kalhan

Division of Basic Science Faculty Publications

We aimed to characterize the plasma metabolome of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension patients using a high-throughput unbiased omics approach. We collected fasting plasma from a peripheral vein in 33 operable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension patients, 31 healthy controls, and 21 idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension patients matched for age, gender, and body mass index. Metabolomic analysis was performed using an untargeted approach (Metabolon Inc. Durham, NC). Of the total of 862 metabolites identified, 362 were different in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension compared to controls: 178 were higher and 184 were lower. Compared to idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, 147 metabolites were different …

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Boxed In: Beliefs About The Compatibility And Likability Of Mother-Occupation And Father-Occupation Role Combinations, Mary C. Noonan, Freda B. Lynn, Mark H. Walker Jan 2020

Boxed In: Beliefs About The Compatibility And Likability Of Mother-Occupation And Father-Occupation Role Combinations, Mary C. Noonan, Freda B. Lynn, Mark H. Walker

Faculty Publications

Researchers have long noted that role expectations of a “good” mother conflict with those of a “good” worker, described as the “cultural contradiction” of motherhood. But given that work roles vary tremendously in terms of the cultural meanings the public assigns them, the authors examine variability in the perceived compatibility of mother-occupation and father-occupation combinations. Building on previous research, the authors hypothesize that (1) some parent-occupation pairings will be viewed as significantly less compatible because of incongruent expectations and meanings, and (2) incumbents of supposedly compatible parent-occupation pairings will be evaluated more favorably than incumbents of incompatible pairings. Both hypotheses …

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Gender Contexts, Dowry And Women's Health In India: A National Multilevel Longitudinal Analysis, Samuel Stroope, Rhiannon A. Kroeger, Jiabin Fan Jan 2020

Gender Contexts, Dowry And Women's Health In India: A National Multilevel Longitudinal Analysis, Samuel Stroope, Rhiannon A. Kroeger, Jiabin Fan

Faculty Publications

Gender-biased contexts may impact women's lives across a variety of domains. This study examined whether changes in district prevalence of a salient gendered practice - dowry - are associated with changes in poor health for women in India. Two waves of national multilevel panel data were used to assess the relationship between changes in district-level dowry prevalence and changes in self-rated health for 23,785 ever-married women aged 15-50 years. Increased dowry prevalence was found to be associated with increased poor self-rated health for women. This relationship remained when controlling for potentially confounding factors including household socioeconomic status, caste, infrastructure, mobility …

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Consumer Perception Of Extruded Snacks Containing Brown Rice And Dried Mushroom, Benjarat Tepsongkroh, Kamolwan Jangchud, Anuvat Jangchud, Pitchayapat Chonpracha, Ryan Ardoin, Witoon Prinyawiwatkul Jan 2020

Consumer Perception Of Extruded Snacks Containing Brown Rice And Dried Mushroom, Benjarat Tepsongkroh, Kamolwan Jangchud, Anuvat Jangchud, Pitchayapat Chonpracha, Ryan Ardoin, Witoon Prinyawiwatkul

Faculty Publications

Effects of mushroom type, seasoning and health benefit information (HBI) on consumers’ saltiness expectation, sensory liking, elicited emotions and purchase intent (PI) of extruded snacks were investigated. Five snacks were evaluated: straw mushroom (Volvariella volvacea) extrudates without (SME) or with seasoning (SMES), phoenix mushroom (Pleurotus pulmonarius) extrudates without (PME) or with seasoning (PMES), and the control without mushroom and seasoning. Hedonic scores and positive emotions were generally higher for seasoned mushroom-containing snacks (SMES and PMES) with 65% and 75.83% of consumers reporting willingness to purchase, respectively, after receiving HBI. Bored, interested and satisfied were identified as significant emotional predictors for …

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Genetic Mapping Identifies Consistent Quantitative Trait Loci For Yield Traits Of Rice Under Greenhouse Drought Conditions, Niranjan Baisakh, Jonalyn Yabes, Andres Gutierrez, Venkata Mangu, Peiyong Ma, Adam Famoso, Andy Pereira Jan 2020

Genetic Mapping Identifies Consistent Quantitative Trait Loci For Yield Traits Of Rice Under Greenhouse Drought Conditions, Niranjan Baisakh, Jonalyn Yabes, Andres Gutierrez, Venkata Mangu, Peiyong Ma, Adam Famoso, Andy Pereira

Faculty Publications

Improving drought resistance in crops is imperative under the prevailing erratic rainfall patterns. Drought affects the growth and yield of most modern rice varieties. Recent breeding efforts aim to incorporate drought resistance traits in rice varieties that can be suitable under alternative irrigation schemes, such as in a (semi)aerobic system, as row (furrow-irrigated) rice. The identification of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) controlling grain yield, the most important trait with high selection efficiency, can lead to the identification of markers to facilitate marker-assisted breeding of drought-resistant rice. Here, we report grain yield QTLs under greenhouse drought using an F2:3 population derived …

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Optimization Of Uas-Based High-Throughput Phenotyping To Estimate Plant Health And Grain Yield In Sorghum, Giovanni Galli, David W. Horne, S. Delroy Collins, Jinha Jung, Anjin Chang, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, William L. Rooney Jan 2020

Optimization Of Uas-Based High-Throughput Phenotyping To Estimate Plant Health And Grain Yield In Sorghum, Giovanni Galli, David W. Horne, S. Delroy Collins, Jinha Jung, Anjin Chang, Roberto Fritsche-Neto, William L. Rooney

Faculty Publications

High-throughput phenotyping (HTP) has enabled the acquisition of vast amounts of data. Therefore, finding the most informative phenological stage(s) and high-throughput traits could lead to significant optimization of HTP-assisted selection. An investigation as to when phenotypic data should be collected and how it should be processed from unmanned aerial system (UAS) imagery for the optimization and assessment of two primary traits in grain sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L). Moench], namely, grain yield and plant health (based on anthracnose scores) was conducted. By evaluating multiple flight dates across the growing season via multispectral UAS-based imagery, a set of scenarios composed of combinations …

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Application Of Nanofiltration To Delactosed Permeate To Produce Food Grade Retentate And Permeate Streams, Lee Alexander Jan 2020

Application Of Nanofiltration To Delactosed Permeate To Produce Food Grade Retentate And Permeate Streams, Lee Alexander

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Delactosed permeate (DLP), commonly referred to as mother liquor, is a plentiful byproduct in the dairy industry. It is a direct byproduct of edible lactose manufacture produced in cheese and dairy ingredient facilities. Despite being rich in lactose and minerals, DLP is most commonly relegated to an animal feed product due to its high ash content, it inhibits and disallows crystallization of any remaining lactose. Delactosed permeate showed many inconsistencies from supplier to supplier and within lots from the same supplier in the eight DLP samples obtained from four separate mozzarella and cheddar manufacturing facilities. Nanofiltration (NF) opens potential food …

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Development Of A Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (Nirs) Platform For Rapid Wheat Quality Analysis, Lily Schimke Jan 2020

Development Of A Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (Nirs) Platform For Rapid Wheat Quality Analysis, Lily Schimke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Wheat is a valuable cereal grain in terms of its growability, versatility, and multifunctional nutritional components. Research into the genetic characteristics and growing conditions of the grain is advantageous to wheat breeders, farmers, food scientists, food processors, and consumers. Optimizing the quality of the wheat grain is important to yielding a crop with the most desirable traits. Analytically obtaining data on the quality attributes of wheat is a lengthy and resource intensive process. Near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) technology is rapid, cost-effective, and a powerful analytical tool that can be harnessed to create predictive calibrations for estimations of wheat parameters. …

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Plant Microbial Interactions In Wheat: Fusarium Head Blight And Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Yaqoob Rashid Thurston Jan 2020

Plant Microbial Interactions In Wheat: Fusarium Head Blight And Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Yaqoob Rashid Thurston

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Plant microbial interactions consist of the many relationships between plants and microbes which involve studies that observe the biology and molecular genetics of pathological, symbiotic, and associative interactions. Worldwide studies involving these interactions are scarcely available in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). In South Dakota (SD), wheat research is a major platform used to understand the nature and consequences of these interactions. Specifically, our research efforts here at South Dakota State University (SDSU) concentrate on two different, but valuable, interactions in wheat: the fungal pathogen that causes fusarium head blight (FHB) and the symbiotic interaction of arbuscular mycorrhizae fungi (AMF) with …

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Analysis Of Coevolving Residues Of Xcdxcdx-Phd, A Distinct Type Of Phd-Finger, Shraddha Basu Jan 2020

Analysis Of Coevolving Residues Of Xcdxcdx-Phd, A Distinct Type Of Phd-Finger, Shraddha Basu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Plant homeodomain (PHD), a Zinc-finger scaffold, is a conserved protein module in eukaryotes that typically recognizes unstructured histone tails, and thus, PHDs play a crucial role in chromatin signaling. The sequences of Zinc-fingers, in general, diversify during the course of evolution often giving rise to subtypes (e.g., RBR-RING (Dove 2017) or zf-CxxC subtypes (Long 2013) who typically contain specific sequence signatures. We recently discovered that PHD fingers also contain a distinct subtype, namely the xCDxCDx-PHD. xCDxCDx-PHD has a distinct composition of specific amino acids that coevolved (coevolving residues) in the course of evolution, and xCDxCDx-PHD also shows a unique mechanism …

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Feeding Increasing Levels Of Reduced-Oil Distillers Dried Grains With Solubles From Two Ethanol Fermentation Methods Impacts Finishing Pig Growth Performance And Belly Quality, Austin Egolf Jan 2020

Feeding Increasing Levels Of Reduced-Oil Distillers Dried Grains With Solubles From Two Ethanol Fermentation Methods Impacts Finishing Pig Growth Performance And Belly Quality, Austin Egolf

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Reduced-oil distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) are an affordable source of energy in finishing pig diets, but differences in DDGS fermentation method on finishing pig growth performance and belly quality is relatively unknown. The objectives of this study were: 1) determine the influence of increasing dietary inclusion rate of hot fermentation (HF) and cold fermentation (CF) DDGS on growth performance, carcass characteristics and belly quality, and 2) compare the effect of HF and CF DDGS on finishing pig growth performance, carcass characteristics, and belly quality. Crossbred pigs (n = 200) were used in a randomized complete block design and …

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