Agriculture Commons^™

Importance Of Creating A System Of Land And Cadastral Data For Subjects Of Agriculture, К. Rakhmonov

Irrigation and Melioration

The generation of electronic data using the land plot scheme while maintaining the land cadastre provides significant convenience for users. Based on this concept, the author explains the conditions, factors and elements of the formation of the contours of land within the land, which plays an important role in the land cadastral work. In particular, the elements of the contour of the earth, that is, the conditions and composition of the border, the area and the order of formation of numbers, are reflected in a separate figure. It is known that the composition of agricultural land plays an important role …

Too Good To Eat? Cosmetic Standards And Waste In Agricultural Supply Chain, Jiahui Xu

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

There is a significant amount of food wasted at the farm level due to high cosmetic standards adopted by retailers. We examine the economic incentives for retailers to adopt such high cosmetic standards and their impact on food loss. We build a sequential game between a retailer and a farmer, where the retailer signs a contract with the farmer specifying both the wholesale price and cosmetic quality standard. By adopting high cosmetic standards, retailers can motivate farmers to exert a higher effort to improve the cosmetic quality, e.g., using better seeds and applying more pesticides. As for the drivers of …

Valorization Of Carrot Processing Waste, Alexandra M. Duval

Master's Theses

Commercial carrot processors produce up to 175,000 tons of carrot waste annually. Carrot Mash (CM) is the term referring to the waste by-product of peeled baby carrot processing. Transportation of carrot processing waste is expensive due to its high- water content (approx. 83-95%). High in bioactive compounds (carotenoids) and dietary fibers, it is expected that its conversion into a value-added by-product is of interest to the carrot processing industry. Hemicellulose-rich plant materials have proven to be a source of oligosaccharides, which are known for their beneficial prebiotic activity. The objectives of this research were to: 1) determine the effect of …

Fruit, Flower, And Thorn: A Phenological Study Of 'Wonderful' Pomegranate, Kylie M. Mendonca

Master's Theses

‘Wonderful’ pomegranate flowering and fruiting habits are not well understood. Characterizing any relationship between flowering habit and fruit size and quality could lead to effective cultural practices for producing high-value fruit. Five mature ‘Wonderful’ pomegranate trees were monitored every 5-14 days throughout the 2015 growing season. Newly emerged flowers were tagged and characterized with respect to sex (determined by ovary shape and style length at anthesis), clustering habit, age of wood on which floral buds were borne, and direction of wood growth. More than 1,100 hermaphroditic flowers were identified and ovary/fruit diameter was recorded throughout the season. In addition to …

Nebline, March 2020

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Nutrition Education Program Fosters Healthy Families and Communities

Everyone Counts. 2020 Census

Recipes of the Month

Private Applicator Trainings, March 9 & 10

Southeast Nebraska Soil Health Conference, March 3

Dicamba Training, March 10

Recent Workshop Recordings Online

Pruning to Create Strength and Good Structure in Young Trees

Bug Word Search

Avoid Unwanted Guests at Your Bird Feeders

2020 All-America Selections Vegetable Winners

Garden Guide: Things to Do This Month

Look Who's Hatching Program for Childcare Centers "Incubates" Imagination

Heart of 4-H Volunteer Award: Clayton Haman

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

4-H Achievement Celebration

Extension Calendar

4-H Horse Hippology …

Proceedings Of The 47th Annual Meeting, Southern Soybean Disease Workers (March 4-5, 2020, Pensacola Beach, Florida), Burton H. Bluhm, Carl Bradley, Tom W. Allen, Danise Beadle, Trey Price

Southern Soybean Disease Workers: Conference Proceedings

Contents

Southern United States soybean disease loss estimates for 2019. TW Allen, K Bissonnette, CA Bradley, JP Damicone, NS Dufault, TR Faske, T Isakeit, RC Kemerait, A Koehler, HL Mehl, JD Mueller, GB Padgett, PP Price, EJ Sikora, IM Small, L Thiessen, and H Young

Abstracts of presented papers

Fungicide efficacy on target spot in Tennessee soybean. Ty Smith, H Kelly, and Z Hansen

Temporal dynamics of Neohydatothrips variabilis, Frankliniella tritici, and Frankliniella fusca in South Central Wisconsin and the occurrence of Soybean vein necrosis virus. Cristina Zambrana-Echevarria, S Kaplan, RL Groves, and DL Smith

Population distributions and …

Analysis Of The Impact Of Central Bank Of Nigeria's Agricultural Intervention Funds On The Economy, E. T. Adamgbe, M. C. Belonwu, E. R. Ochu, I. I. Okafor

Economic and Financial Review

This paper set out to investigate the impact of Central Bank of Nigeria's interventions on the agricultural sector within an economy-wide framework of general equilibrium modelling. The paper adopted a dynamic (recursive), two-sector general equilibrium model of the Nigerian economy with some modifications on the standard model developed by the Centre for Econometric and Applied Research (CEAR) and incorporated the contributions of the CBN's agricultural based interventions as increases in the stock of agricultural capital to have a more robust size of interventions into the agricultural sector. The SAM used for the CGE model analysis was derived from the updated …

A History Of Zinnias: Flower For The Ages, Eric Grissell

Purdue University Press Book Previews

A History of Zinnias brings forward the fascinating adventure of zinnias and the spirit of civilization. With colorful illustrations, this book is a cultural and horticultural history documenting the development of garden zinnias—one of the top ten garden annuals grown in the United States today.

The deep and exciting history of garden zinnias pieces together a tale involving Aztecs, Spanish conquistadors, people of faith, people of medicine, explorers, scientists, writers, botanists, painters, and gardeners. The trail leads from the halls of Moctezuma to a cliff-diving prime minister; from Handel, Mozart, and Rossini to Gilbert and Sullivan; from a little-known confession …

Effect Of Low-Use-Rate Zinc Fertilization On Rice Growth And Grain Yield, Maxwell D. Coffin, Nathan A. Slaton

Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Low-use-rate Zn fertilization methods have been developed and marketed for rice (Oryza sativa L.) fertilization with limited research validating their efficacy. Our research objectives were to evaluate the effect of Zn-seed treatment rate combined with six Zn-fertilization methods on early season canopy coverage, tissue-Zn concentration at the mid-tillering stage, and rice grain yield. The field experiment was conducted on six silt loams and one clay. Rice seed was treated with 0 or 3.3 g Zn kg(-1) as ZnO and combined with no Zn, granular ZnSO4 applied at 11 kg Zn ha(-1) (GRAN), 1.68 kg Zn ha(-1) as MicroEssentials (MESZ), 1.1 …

View On Bioactive Substance Nutritional Intervention Approaches Of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia, Huang Shou-En, Zheng Jian-Xian

Food and Machinery

Novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) is a kind of respiratory diseases mainly caused by novel coronavirus, which can be transmitted through respiratory droplets and contact. At present, no effective drugs for it were found, and the treatment is mainly symptomatic and supportive. In addition to medical treatment, a scientific and reasonable diet is also an important part for improving nutritional health, enhancing disease resistance and defeating novel coronavirus pneumonia. Therefore, from the perspective of food nutrition, the authors discussthe intervention approaches of bioactive substance nutrition to defend against the novel coronavirus pneumonia, and put forward the policy recommendations for the development …

Progresses Of The Screening Strategies And The Effect Mechanism Researches Of Food-Derived Immunopeptides, Wen Li, Liu Bu-Qing, Xu Zhou, Chen Mao-Long, Cheng Yun-Hui

Food and Machinery

The global undergoing strategies of screening the food-derived immunopeptides were summarized in this review, and the prospective using of computational science was emphasized. Moreover, the research background of the molecular mechanism of the food-derive immunopeptides was reviewed, and a new research strategy was also proposed, i. e. combining the multi-omics, bioinformatics, and cellular and animal experiments to investigate their molecular mechanism.

Effects Of Exopolysaccharide On Batter And Baking Characteristics Of Eggless Cake, Zhang Feng-Wen, Chen Cheng, Zhang Bin-Le, Cao Wei-Chao, Wang Feng, Chen Jun-Min, Huang Wei-Ning, Akihiro Ogawa

Food and Machinery

In this paper, the effects of exopolysaccharide (EPS) produced by lactic acid bacteria (LAB) on the foaming, surface hydrophobicity and liquid protein content of complex proteins during whipping were studied. LAB fermentation technology was applied in the production of eggless cakes and its effect on batter rheological, baking characteristic and crumb microstructure of eggless cake were evaluated. The results showed that the EPS produced by LAB significantly improved the foaming properties, increased surface hydrophobicity of complex protein and maintained the interface protein content by reducing competitive adsorption of emulsifiers during whipping. The number of bubbles increased and their distribution was …

The Dynamic Change And Correlation Analysis Between Flavor And Quality In The Pickling Crab Paste, Zheng Rui-Xing, Ding Yuan, Xing Jia-Li, Cheng Hai, Zhang Shu-Fen, Mao Ling-Yan

Food and Machinery

To explore the scientific representation about the dynamic change of crab paste in pickling periods, fresh swimming crab was prepared for pickling the crab paste. Thereafter, the sensory and physical-chemical properties(pH, total volatile basic nitrogen, thiobarbituric acid, and free amino acid)and total plate count of different pickling periods (0, 6, 18, 30 and 42 h) were analyzed, and the correlation analysis and regression prediction model were carried out. The correlation analysis results showed that the free amino acid had no relation with sensory qualities. The flavor sensory properties such as fishy smell, sulfur smell, plumpness and flexibility were all significantly …

Screening And Characteristics Of Heat-Resistant Strain From Concentrated Carrot Juice, Liu Cai-Qin, Wei Xing-Hu, Wang Nan, Chen Wei-Qing, Chen Hong, Lv Yun, Zheng Gang

Food and Machinery

The heat-resistant strain was isolated and identified by morphological features and ITS rDNA gene sequence analysis. Some physiological and biochemical characteristics of the strain were examined by carbon source utilization experiment. The thermal stability and acid-base stability of the strain were examined by heat and acid-base treatment. With the ultrasonic technology, the polysaccharides, reducing sugar and pigment in cells were examined. The results indicated that the strain SR-1 belongs to Sporobolomyces carnicolor. It was heat-resistant, and grew stably after heat treatment at 80 ℃ for 5~30 min, and at 90 ℃ for 15 min. However, it couldn't grow after …

Drying Models And Quality Characteristics Of Cantonese Sausages In Different Ways, Lin Ting-Ting, Zeng Xiao-Fang, Dong Hua-Fa, Wu Man-Shi, Zhuo Xian-Rong, Dong Hao, Bai Wei-Dong

Food and Machinery

Cantonese sausage was dried by various physical control modes in the present work. Hot air drying was selected as the control, and the effects of different drying methods, i.e. low temperature combining infrared radiation, and low temperature combing both infrared and ultraviolet radiations, on the moisture, nitrite, color and lustre, fat oxidation and other physical and chemical index and texture of Cantonese sausage during drying process were investigated. Significant differences were observed on the physical and chemical index for Cantonese sausage with different drying processes, but the nitrite residue and other indicators of the finished product were within the normal …

Drying Characteristics And Drying Quality Of Lilium By Hot-Air Thin-Layer Drying, Xiao Bi-Liang, Sun Jing, Liu Xiao-Feng

Food and Machinery

In order to improve the quality of lily production and shorten the drying period, taken Lanzhou lily as sample and used JK-LB1700 thin layer drying test bed to dry. The effects were investigoted, in different hot-air temperature (60, 70, 80, 90 ℃), hot-air rate (0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 m/s) and drying relative humidity (20%, 30%, 40%) on drying rate, color ΔE* value, vitamin C content, rehydration ratio during lily drying and law of change. The Weibull distribution function was used to simulate the drying moisture diffusion law of lily. Results, the drying time of lily was significantly shortened (P＜0.01) with …

Subchronic Toxicity Of Cerasus Lannesiana Albo-Roseain In Rats, Zhang Cheng-Xiang, Li Shi-Fen, Wang Yu-Bang, Zhang Lu-Lu, Yan Ting, Zhu Xue-Feng

Food and Machinery

A total of 100 SD rats, half male and half female, were randomly divided into untreated control group (C1 group), treated control group (C2 group), low dose group (Ⅰgroup), middle dose group (Ⅱ group), and high dose group (Ⅲ group). The rats were fed continuously for 13 weeks, and the body weight, food intake, blood routine indexes, blood biochemical indexes, urine routine indexes, main organ weights and pathological histological examination of the organs were observed. Results: There was no significant difference between the observation groups (P＞0.05). The pathological changes related to Cerasus lannesiana Albo-rosea were not found in the pathological …

Investigation Of Sectionalized Pyrolysis Behavior Of Heated Cigarette Tobacco Materials, Zhu Gui-Hua, Liu Chun-Bo, Yang Chen, Liu Zhe, Liu Zhi-Hua, Jiang Li-Hong, Shen Qin-Peng, Si Xiao-Xi, Zhang Xin, Yang Ji

Food and Machinery

The thermogravimetry (TG) and pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) were used to analyze the thermal behavior of three tobacco materials, including typical center heated (A), circumferential heated (B) and traditional cigarette (C). Results showed as follows. ① The thermal mass loss of the two types of heated tobacco materials could be divided into 3 stages, and the main thermal mass loss stage was 242~350 ℃; the traditional cigarette tobacco material thermal mass loss could be divided into 4 stages, and the main mass loss stage was 381~534 ℃. Compared with traditional cigarettes, the mass loss peaks of heated cigarettes were wider …

Cloning And Expression Analysis Of Gmwrky86 In Soybean, Wang Jing, Fu Jing, Li Xiao-Wei

Food and Machinery

In order to study the biological function of GmWRKY86 gene in soybean on development and resistance against abiotic stress, PCR products of its opening reading frame, ORF) were used to clone GmWRKY86 gene, and the gene expressions in different tissues were detected by using real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR (qRT-PCR). Sequence analysis showed that the GmWRKY86 gene can encode 523 amino acids with an isoelectric point of 8.15, a molecular weight predicted to be 56.82 kDa, and an open reading frame of 1 572 bp. GmWRKY86 protein has two highly conserved domains, and the GmWRKY86 gene contains three introns and four …

On-Line Monitoring The Emergency Pollution Of Toxoflavin In The Municipal Drinking Water By Flow Injection Chemiluminescence, Liu Qian-Yu, Tang Shu-Ze, Li Liang, Du Wen-Qi, Teng Jiu-Wei

Food and Machinery

Based on chemiluminescence inhibition effect of toxoflavin on luminol-hydrogen peroxide-copper oxide nanoparticles system in alkaline medium, a novel method for monitoring toxoflavin potential emergency pollution in municipal drinking water was successfully developed. Combining with flow injection method, the chemiluminescence intensity of different mixed solutions was determined by ultra-weak chemiluminescence analyzer. Optimal conditions were obtained by the means of one-way tests among 4 factors. Based on the one-way tests result, a response surface experiment was conducted in order to acquire standard curve, detection limit and recovery of different water samples. The linear range for toxoflavin monitoring was 0.005~5.000 mg/L with a …