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Corn And Soybean Production With A Winter Rye Cover Crop, John E. Sawyer, Jose L. Pantoja, Daniel W. Barker Jul 2016

Corn And Soybean Production With A Winter Rye Cover Crop, John E. Sawyer, Jose L. Pantoja, Daniel W. Barker

John E. Sawyer

Objectives of this project were to study corn nitrogen (N) fertilization requirement and corn/soybean yield response when grown in a rye cover cropping system. Multiple rates of N fertilizer were applied, with measurement of corn yield response to applied N and soybean yield with and without a fall planted winter rye cover crop. The study was conducted at multiple research farms, with the intent for comparison of with and without a cover crop system across varying soil and climatic conditions in Iowa.


Corn And Soybean Production With A Winter Rye Cover Crop, John E. Sawyer, Jose L. Pantoja, Daniel W. Barker Jul 2016

Corn And Soybean Production With A Winter Rye Cover Crop, John E. Sawyer, Jose L. Pantoja, Daniel W. Barker

John E. Sawyer

Objectives of this project were to study corn nitrogen (N) fertilization requirement and corn/soybean yield response when grown in a rye cover cropping system. Multiple rates of N fertilizer were applied, with measurement of corn yield response to applied N and soybean yield with and without a fall planted winter rye cover crop. The study was conducted at multiple research farms, with the intent for comparison of with and without a cover crop system across varying soil and climatic conditions in Iowa.


Expression Of Acyl Carrier Proteins In Spinach, Katherine Schmid, J. Ohlrogge Feb 2016

Expression Of Acyl Carrier Proteins In Spinach, Katherine Schmid, J. Ohlrogge

Katherine Schmid

Dr. Schmid and Dr. Ohlrogge's contribution to the Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Plant Lipids; Wye, England; July 8-13, 1990.


Dihydrosterculate In Tobacco Transformed With Bacterial Cyclopropane Fatty Acid Synthase, Katherine Schmid Feb 2016

Dihydrosterculate In Tobacco Transformed With Bacterial Cyclopropane Fatty Acid Synthase, Katherine Schmid

Katherine Schmid

Many gram negative bacteria accumulate cyclopropane fatty acids (CPFAs) in their membranes during stationary phase. In plants, on the other hand, CPFAs are best known as constituents of certain seed oils. CPFAs make up around 40% of Litchi chinensis seed oil [1] and a significant proportion of oils from other Sapindales. In order Malvales, small amounts of CPFA typically accompany cyclopropene fatty acids in seed oils, although up to 5% CPFA has been observed in the polar lipid fraction from Malvaceous roots [2]. Genetic engineering of oilseeds for unusual fatty acid production requires that the introduced fatty acids accumulate in …


Cyclopropane Fatty Acid Expression In Plants, Katherine Schmid Feb 2016

Cyclopropane Fatty Acid Expression In Plants, Katherine Schmid

Katherine Schmid

Pants [sic] are transformed with a bacterial cyclopropane fatty acid synthase gene to produce lipids containing cyclopropane fatty acids. Using this technology dihydrosterculate is produced in oilseed crops such as rape.


Urbanization—The Bad, The Good, And The Very Good, Rebecca Dolan Feb 2016

Urbanization—The Bad, The Good, And The Very Good, Rebecca Dolan

Rebecca W. Dolan

Great strides have been made in studying effects of urbanization on plant life in recent years. However, much remains to be learned about how the urban environment acts as a filter on flora. There is some evidence that environments in cities are so similar that they all select for the same plants or plants with the same suite of characteristics, resulting in biotic homogenization, but the jury is still out. We do know that some cities harbor a thriving and diverse native flora. Dolan will talk about what cities can do to increase the chances for long-term survival of native …


The Friesner Herbarium (But) Of Butler University, Rebecca Dolan Jan 2016

The Friesner Herbarium (But) Of Butler University, Rebecca Dolan

Rebecca W. Dolan

The Friesner Herbarium (BUT) of Butler University is a collection of over 100,000 specimens built from the personal herbarium of Ray C. Friesner. He and other botanists at Butler amassed one of the largest and most complete collections of Indiana plants. Active exchange from the 1920’s through the 1940’s increased the holdings of plants from other states. Although the collection does not contain many type specimens, it is rich in vouchers from floristic and ecological studies conducted in the first half of the 20th century and published in the scientific journal,Butler University Botanical Studies.


Hypericum Cumulicola Demography In Unoccupied And Occupied Florida Scrub Patches With Different Time-Since-Fire, Pedro Quintana-Ascencio, Rebecca Dolan, Eric Menges Jan 2016

Hypericum Cumulicola Demography In Unoccupied And Occupied Florida Scrub Patches With Different Time-Since-Fire, Pedro Quintana-Ascencio, Rebecca Dolan, Eric Menges

Rebecca W. Dolan

1 Metapopulation models predict that unoccupied, but suitable, patches will exist for species subject to extinction and colonization dynamics. We compared the demographic responses of Hypericum cumulicola, a rare herbaceous species almost entirely restricted to Florida rosemary scrub, when transplanted to occupied or unoccupied patches. 2 Seedlings were transplanted and seeds buried into Florida rosemary scrub patches differing in time since last fire, and in the presence or absence of H. cumulicola. We used a replicated, factorial design to place the transplants and seeds in the field, and monitored their performance for 18 months. 3 Neither time-since-fire nor prior H. …