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Midwest Vegetable Trial Report For 2016, Elizabeth Maynard, Brad Bergefurd

Purdue Fruit and Vegetable Research Reports

This is a compilation of 21 research trial reports from six land-grant universities in the midwestern United States. Crops include dry beans, cantaloupe, cucumber, pepper, pumpkin, sweet corn, summer squash, winter squash, strawberry, tomato, watermelon, and winter melon. Several crops were evaluated in high tunnels or hoop houses. Most trials evaluated different cultivars or varieties. Three reports addressed specific growing practices: the use of poly-coated urea to supply nitrogen to sweet corn, potassium fertilization for high tunnel tomatoes, and use of cereal rye cover crop in butternut squash.

Evaluation Of 11 Bell Pepper Cultivars In Southwest Michigan, Ron Goldy

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

2016 Evaluation Of Standard Pickling Cucumber Varieties In Kansas, Stephanie Gruetze, Kimberly Oxley, Cary L. Rivard

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Midwest Vegetable Trial Report For 2016, Elizabeth Maynard, Brad Bergefurd

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

This is a compilation of 21 research trial reports from six land-grant universities in the midwestern United States. Crops include dry beans, cantaloupe, cucumber, pepper, pumpkin, sweet corn, summer squash, winter squash, strawberry, tomato, watermelon, and winter melon. Several crops were evaluated in high tunnels or hoop houses. Most trials evaluated different cultivars or varieties. Three reports addressed specific growing practices: the use of poly-coated urea to supply nitrogen to sweet corn, potassium fertilization for high tunnel tomatoes, and use of cereal rye cover crop in butternut squash.

2016 Evaluation Of Determinate Tomato Varieties For High Tunnel Production In Kansas, Kimberly Oxley, David Loewen, Cary L. Rivard

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Poly-Coated Urea Rate Influences Sweet Corn Yield, Ron Goldy, Carly Andres, Virginia Wendzel

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

2016 Ohio Sweet Corn Evaluations, Michael L. Gastier, Matthew Hofelich, Allen M. Gahler

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Evaluating West Virginia Organic Heritage Beans For Commercial Markets In West Virginia, Lewis Jett

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Strawberry Variety Evaluation For High Tunnel Production In Southwest Indiana, Wenjing Guan, Larry Sutterer

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Watermelon Variety Evaluations In Southwest Indiana, 2016, Wenjing Guan, Dan Egel, Dennis Nowaskie

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Strawberry Variety Evaluation For High Tunnel Production In Southwest Indiana, Wenjing Guan, Larry Sutterer

Purdue Fruit and Vegetable Research Reports

This is a compilation of 21 research trial reports from four land-grant universities in the Midwestern United States. Crops include cantaloupe, pickling cucumber, pepper, potato, pumpkin, summer squash and zucchini, sweet corn, tomato, and watermelon. Somecrops were evaluated in high tunnels or hoophouses. Most trials evaluated different cultivars or varieties. One report addressed plant spacing for sweet corn and one addressed soil block for production of tomato seedlings. A list of vegetable seed sources and a list of other online sources of vegetable trial reports are also included.

Kentucky Seedless Watermelon Variety Trial, 2016, Shubin Saha, John Snyder, John Walsh

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Msu 2016 Seedless Pickling Cucumber Variety Trial, Ben Phillips

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Cantaloupe Variety Trial For Kentucky, 2016, John Walsh, Shubin K. Saha, John Snyder

Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports

No abstract provided.

Chemical Interruption Of Late Season Flowering To Improve Harvested Peanut Maturity, Marshall C. Lamb, Ronald B. Sorensen, Christopher L. Butts, Phat M. Dang, C. Y. Chen, Renée S. Arias

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is a botanically indeterminate plant where flowering, fruit initiation, and pod maturity occurs over an extended time period during the growing season. As a result, the maturity and size of individual peanut pods vary considerably at harvest. Immature kernels that meet commercial edible size specifications negatively affect quality during processing due to their increased propensity for off flavors, higher moisture and water activity, and variable roasting properties. As peanuts progress toward maturation, late season flowers set within 40 days till harvest will not have sufficient time to develop into mature, marketable pods prior to harvest. …

Characterization Of Small Rna Populations In Non-Transgenic Andaflatoxin-Reducing-Transformed Peanut, Imana L. Power, Phat M. Dang, Victor S. Sobolev, Valerie Orner, Joseph L. Powell, Marshall C. Lamb, Renée S. Arias

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Aflatoxin contamination is a major constraint in food production worldwide. In peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.), these toxic and carcinogenic aflatoxins are mainly produced by Aspergillus flavus Link and A. parasiticus Speare. The use of RNA interference (RNAi) is a promising method to reduce or prevent the accumula-tion of aflatoxin in peanut seed. In this study, we performed high-throughput sequencing of small RNApopulations in a control line and in two transformed peanut lines that expressed an inverted repeattargeting five genes involved in the aflatoxin-biosynthesis pathway and that showed up to 100% less aflatoxin B1 than the controls. The objective was …

A Nano Particle Vector Comprised Of Poly Lactic-Co-Glycolic Acid And Monophosphoryl Lipid A And Recombinant Mycobacterium Avium Subsp Paratuberculosis Peptides Stimulate A Pro-Immune Profile In Bovine Macrophages, C.D. Souza, John Bannantine, W.C. Brown, M.G. Norton, W.C. Davis, J.K. Hwang, P. Ziaei, Gaber S. Abdellrazeq, M.V. Eren, J.R. Deringer, E. Laws, M.C.D. Cardieri

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Aims: We evaluated the potential of a nanoparticle (NP) delivery system to improve methods of delivery of candidate peptide-based vaccines for Paratuberculosis in cattle.

Methods and Results: Peptides derived from Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Map), and the pro-inflammatory monophosphoryl lipid A (MPLA) were incorporated in polymeric NPs based on poly (D,L-lactide-co- glycolide) (PLGA). The PLGA/MPLA NPs carriers were incubated with macrophages to examine their effects on survival and function. PLGA/MPLA NPs, with and without Map antigens, are efficiently phagocytized by macrophages with no evidence of toxicity. PLGA/MPLA NP formulations did not alter the level of expression of MHC I or …

Identification Of Sero-Reactive Antigens For The Early Diagnosis Of Johne’S Disease In Cattle, Lingling Li, J. P. Bannantine, Joseph Campo, Arlo Randall, Yrjo T. Grohn, Robab Katani, Megan Schilling, Jessica Radzio-Basu, Vivek Kapur

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) is the causative agent of Johne’s disease (JD), a chronic intestinal inflammatory disease of cattle and other ruminants. JD has a high herd prevalence and causes serious animal health problems and significant economic loss in domesticated ruminants throughout the world. Since serological detection of MAP infected animals during the early stages of infection remains challenging due to the low sensitivity of extant assays, we screened 180 well-characterized serum samples using a whole proteome microarray from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), a close relative of MAP. Based on extensive testing of serum and milk samples, fecal culture and …

Cell Wall Peptidolipids Of Mycobacterium Avium: From Genetic Prediction To Exact Structure Of A Nonribosomal Peptide, John Bannantine, Giles Etienne, Francoise Laval, Judith R. Stabel, Anne Lemassu, Mamadou Daffe, Darrell O. Bayles, Christelle Ganneau, Frederic Bonhomme, Maxime Branger, Thierry Cochard, Sylvie Bay, Franck Biet

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Mycobacteria have a complex cell wall structure that includes many lipids; however, even within a single subspecies of Mycobacterium avium these lipids can differ. Total lipids from an M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis (Map) ovine strain (S-type) contained no identifiable glycopeptidolipids or lipopentapeptide (L5P), yet both lipids are present in other M. avium subspecies. We determined the genetic and phenotypic basis for this difference using sequence analysis as well as biochemical and physico-chemical approaches. This strategy showed that a nonribosomal peptide synthase, encoded by mps1, contains three amino acid specifying modules in ovine strains, compared to five modules in bovine strains …

Strategies For Evading Blackbird Damage, George M. Linz, Page E. Klug

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

Foraging blackbird flocks have great mobility as they search for food that is plentiful, is easily accessed, and has a high nutritional value. Ripening corn, rice, and sunflower fit those criteria, as does seeded rice. The birds will move from field to field to find the ideal combination of energy spent to discover food versus the energy value of the food (Pyke et al. 1977). An extraordinary effort is often needed to actively move the birds from a foraging location with a high positive value (e.g., close to roost and early ripening sunflower) versus a location with a I~w value …