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The Germination Of Weed Seeds As Influenced By Environmental Factors, Edna Pauline Mertz

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The problem involved in this investigation was that of determining the effect of environmental factors upon the germination of twelve species of weed seeds. The seeds were harvested, divided into three groups designated as Groups I, II and III, and stored under different environmental conditions. Group I, a temperature control group, was stored under conditions of normal temperature, Group II under continued cold and Group III was subjected to intermittent freezing and thawing. A small fourth group, consisting of seeds of species which failed to germinate or showed low percentages of germination in earlier tests was subjected to scarification. These …

A Study Of The Physiology Of Grape Roots And Stocks In Relation To A Lime-Induced Chlorosis, Eldrow Reeve

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The word chlorosis comes from the Greek "chloros" meaning light green and is used by plant science workers to designate a disease of plants, the characteristic symptom of which is the yellowing of the leaves.

Viola Sororia Willd., John Mccree

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Cypripedium Parviflorum Var. Pubescens (Willd.) Knight, Ernest L. Stover

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Noteworthy Arkansas Plants, Delzie Demaree

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

The above list of fifty plants was presented before the Arkansas Academy meetings at Conway, 1939, Fayetteville, 1940, and at Arkadelphia, 1941. Eleocharis quadrangulata is the only one previously listed in an Arkansas check list, but no locality was given. It is not known by the writer from any other station than the above. The list comprises thirty-five genera, forty-eight species, twenty-six varieties, one form, and one hybrid.

Cypripedium Parviflorum Var. Pubescens (Willd.) Knight, Ernest L. Stover

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Preliminary Report On The Legumes Of The Arkansas Uplands, Orrin J. Henbest

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

A brief discussion is presented on the ecologic, taxonomic, and economic features of the leguminous plants of the uplands occupying the northwestern half of Arkansas. The list of 37 genera and 115 species is compiled from the author's collection and from the specimens in the herbarium of the University of Arkansas collected in this part of the state. The geographic position of this area and its variety of ecological habitats indicate that it may yield nearly 175 species of legumes.

Check List Of The Grasses Of Arkansas, Dwight M. Moore

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

White-Flowered Forms Of Some Arkansas Wild Flowers, Dwight M. Moore

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Check List Of The Ligneous Flora Of Arkansas, Dwight M. Moore

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Petrified Wood Compound Of Oxides Of Iron, L. B. Roberts

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Studies On Oil Of Wintergreen Under The Microscope, L. B. Roberts, Edwin Roberts, Otto Ledford

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Acer Nigrum Michx.F., H. J. P.

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Embryo And Seedling Development Of Tropaeolum Majus, L., Florence Ann Norris

Bachelors’ Theses

The family Tropaeolacese contains one genus Tropaeolum with about fifty species living on the mountains of Mexico and the Andes as far south as Chile. Three occur also in South Brazil. Tropaeolum majus L. and Tropaeolum minus L., natives of Peru, are the "Nasturtium" of our gardens.

Forestiera Acuminata (Michx.) Poir., Robert A. Evers

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Vegetative Composition And Grazing Capacity Of A Typical Area Of Nebraska Sandhill Range Land, A. L. Frolik, W. O. Shepherd

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

The sandhill area of Nebraska occupies approximately 20,000 square miles of the central portion of the state. Being unadapted to cultivation, the land is for the most part still covered with native vegetation. It is utilized primarily for the production of livestock, chiefly cattle. During the period 1931 to 1938 the sandhills carried annually an average of 1,041,000 cattle, which amounted to 31 per cent of the total number in the state. The management practices used in the Nebraska sandhills have gained national recognition as a good example of range conservation in the United States. The purpose of this study …

Bulletin No. 3: A Plant Handbook, Lists Of Plants For Specific Landscsape Uses, Harriet B. Creighton, Priscilla Pasco

Bulletins

No abstract provided.

The Genetics Congress, R. A. Emerson

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Mice and men reported from

Edinburgh after the Congress

(JOURNAL OF HEREDITY for

September 1939) but since then there

has been silence, as far as getting into the

record any details of the Congress. On

account of the disruption to trans-Atlantic

travel caused by the declaration of

war between England and Germany,

September 3, the American delegation to

the Congress was considerably delayed

in getting back. Only two failed ultimately

to return, Dr. and Mrs. F. W.

Tinney of the Division of Farm Crops

of the University of Wisconsin. They

were among about a dozen members of

the Congress who …

Origin And Development Of Tissues In The Root Of Daucus Carota, L., M. Gerald Vodde

Bachelors’ Theses

When botanists of the seventeenth century began their anatomical investigations of plants, their attention was quite naturally centered on the parts of the plant which they most readily observed growing above the ground. The Englishman, Robert Hooke (1661), revolutionized the botanical sciences when he announced his discovery of the fact that plant tissues are composed of cavities which he called cells. Many workers enthusiastically took up the study of plant tissues and the individual cells of which these tissues are composed. Progress was rather slow, and it was not until approximately two hundred years later that the cell theory was …

The Rhamnales Of Wisconsin: A Taxonomic Study, Richard W. Pohl

Bachelors’ Theses

The extensive taxonomic literature on the North American Vites was reviewed by L.H. Bailey (3) in 1934. Among the earlier writers, Major John Le Conte published "An Enumeration of the Vines of North America" (32) in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 1852-1853. Dr. George Engelmann of St. Louis published a short review of the North American grapes in the American Naturalist for August,1868. He mentioned ten species, giving formal descriptions for none, and commented upon the work of Rafinesque, who had attempted to describe the North American species of Vitis about fifty years previously, …

A Zygotic Lethal In Chromosome 1 Of Maize And Its Linkage With Neighboring Genes, R. A. Emerson

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

A Bolivian maize

maize with mosaic red pericarp and cob, here designated by the symbol M-M, crossed with a local inbred strain of maize having white pericarp and cob, W-W, produced in F₁ 21 M-M and 28

W-W plants, not far from the I : I relation expected on the assumption that

the M-M parent was heterozygous for pericarp and cob color, M-M/W-W.

In F₂ and segregating F₃ cultures, however, there were 130 M-M and 64

W-W plants obviously a 2 : I instead of the 3 : I relation expected. Later cultures

increased these records to …

Common Native Grasses Of Nebraska, A. L. Frolik, F. D. Keim

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

Twenty-four native grasses that are the most important and most generally distributed in Nebraska are described and illustrated in this circular. Information concerning their distribution and economic value is given. Anyone interested in learning to identify the common native grasses should be able to do so by comparing plant specimens with the illustrations and descriptions herein presented. The work of identifying grasses may seem technical and limited only to botanists or those with similar training. Nearly anyone, however, can learn to identify many of the native grasses if willing to spend a little time and effort.

Wound Healing In Potatoes (Triumph Variety) As Influenced By Type Of Injury, Nature Of Initial Exposure, And Storage Conditions, H. O. Werner

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Research Bulletins

Tubers of the Triumph variety of potatoes, the one most extensively grown in western Nebraska, are more susceptible than those of other varieties to the various types of injury that occur at harvest time. This greater susceptibility is chiefly the result of long stolons, unusual tenderness of skin, and ease with which the tubers crack. The two latter characteristics have been accentuated by the custom of late planting adopted generally throughout the region in recent years. Many of the difficulties could be avoided by growing another variety. However, as there now seems to be no other variety as well adapted …

The Plankton Of The Bear River Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, Utah Seasonal Distribution Of Organisms, George Piranian

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

In the summer of 1932, an investigation of some biological, physical, and chemical conditions at the Bear River Migratory Waterfowl Refuge, Utah, was begun at the Utah State Agricultural College to determine some of the factors governing the biological productivity of brackish-water marshes. Unfortunately, lack of funds made it impossible to continue work beyond the first season.

In 1936, the Wild Life Experiment Station at the Utah State Agricultural College appropriated a fund for a cooperative project between the Station and the Department of Botany at the same institution. This project, planned to be continued by various graduate fellows over …

A Study Of Mahogany., Roy A. Lawrence

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Study Of The Native Trees Of Amador County, Guy V. Towsley

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The region covered by this study reaches from the valley floor of the San Joaquin-Sacramento Valley, with an altitude of about 150 feet, to the top of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, whose peaks, in Amador County, reach to more than 9000 feet. Mokelumne Peak has an altitude of 9371 feet. The north and south distance, across the county at Ione, is 22 miles, while at Cook's Station, it is barely 5 miles. Amador County has an area of about 600 square miles.

Thus, a study of trees in this county, gives a fairly representative cross-section picture of the Sierras at …

Weeds In Sacramento County Of California, Ross Clover

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Sacramento County has many types of Agriculture and many weed pests which compete with the crops. Stock may be poisoned by certain weeds and weeds may also act as hosts for fungus diseases, virus diseases and insect pests of cultivated crops. Many plants may be weeds in one locality and harmless or beneficial in other parts. The author has made a thorough study of the country's agriculture and its weeds. Latest control practices were also studied.

Seasonal Variation Of The Pigment Content Of Acer Saccharum & Tilia Americana, James Major

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Leaves of the sugar maple and the American linden were selected. Since it was impossible to control environmental factors in any way, trees growing in close proximity were used. A sugar maple and an American linden growing near the entrance to the circular drive between Ogden Hall and Snell Hall on the campus of Western Kentucky State Teachers College, Bowling Green, Kentucky, fulfilled the above conditions.

Spraguea Umbellata Var. Caudicifera A. Gray, H. Kruse, H. M. Gilkey

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.

Goodyera Repens (L.) R. Br. Ex Ait. F., Ernest L. Stover

Specimens by Name

No abstract provided.