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Proceedings Of The 43rd Annual Meeting, Southern Soybean Disease Workers (March 9-10, 2016, Pensacola Beach, Florida), Trey Price, Tom Allen, Travis Faske, Eduardo Chagas Da Silva

Southern Soybean Disease Workers: Conference Proceedings

Contents

Schedule

Southern United States Soybean Disease Loss Estimates for 2015. TW Allen, CA Bradley, JP Damicone, NS Dufault, TR Faske, CA Hollier, T Isakeit, RC Kemerait, NM Kleczewski, SR Koenning, HL Mehl, JD Mueller, C Overstreet, PP Price, EJ Sikora, TN Spurlock, and H Young

Soilborne Disease Symposium (Tom Allen, moderator)

Integrated management of sudden death syndrome. D Mueller, L Leandro, Y Kandel, C Bradley, M Chilvers, A Tenuta, and K Wise

Field screening for stem canker: an outdated exercise or a necessary service for soybean growers? K Rowe and T Kirkpatrick

Nematode associated diseases in soybean. C Overstreet, …

How To Select And Buck Logs For Railroad Ties, Terry Conners

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

Railroad ties are rectangular pieces of wood with specified dimensions that are used to hold steel rails apart by a fixed distance in track. They’re dried, treated with a wood preservative and installed in track with various types of hardware to support the load and to keep the wood from being crushed and worn away during service. Specifications for ties vary slightly from one customer to another.

Trails As Resource Connections In Your Community, Jayoung Koo

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

A trail is a linear path segment that is naturally or intentionally created by users (humans and/or animals) to traverse their landscape and connect destinations. As a collective, a trail system is comprised of multiple paths that are connected in an overall network that may include paths exclusively in towns or in nature, but also connect one place to another place. Effectively laid out trails can fulfill multiple goals and objectives and also have significant indirect benefits for communities. Depending on the form or function, there are different types of trails to be considered (Table 1). Trail systems can include …

Trailblazers: Two Case Studies For Community Trails, Jayoung Koo

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

Trails function as beneficial resources for communities in support of their various goals; although how projects are implemented and what specific features are created will differ depending on a community’s geographic location, socio-economic context and potential, and historical and cultural assets. While the essence of a trail project may seem simple and universal in nature, different communities with different contexts, shapes and sizes can apply a range of trail planning strategies and approaches to fit their needs and physical community. Ultimately, each community’s trail project will differ from their neighbor’s as well as from the perceived “ideal” trail. In any …

Trail Planning, Jayoung Koo

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

There are two general ways to begin a trail project in a community. The first method is for the community (client) to hire design or planning professionals such as landscape architects, urban planners or engineers to lead a trail project on behalf of the community. The second way involves a grass roots approach where a community gets the project started and develops the conceptual ideas on their own and then later brings in professionals during the design phase. Regardless of the approach for the initial phase, professionals need to be involved to eventually construct the trail(s) but how much of …

Kentucky Nutrient Management Planning Guidelines (Kynmp) [2016], Stephen F. Higgins, Kylie Schmidt, Amanda A. Gumbert

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

Nutrients are constantly cycling through farms. Nutrients come onto a farm in the form of feed, commercial fertilizers, manure, or compost, and they leave the farm with harvested crops, sold livestock, and off-site disposal of manure and other waste. Sometimes nutrients are even lost to the air, soil, or water. Nutrient management allows farmers to use nutrients (specifically nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium) wisely for optimal economic benefit with minimal impact on the environment.

Approximately 80 percent of nutrients fed to an animal passes through the gut and into its manure. If managed correctly, the nutrients and organic matter in this …

Genetically Engineered Crops: Emerging Opportunities, Paul C. Vincelli

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

Biotechnology is “any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use.” This definition encompasses many, many applications, including traditional ones such as fermentation of alcoholic beverages.

In certain biotech crops, their genetic material (DNA) has been purposefully manipulated in the laboratory. These genetically engineered crops are often called “GMOs,” an acronym for “genetically modified organisms.” These GMOs are the focus of this publication.

Plant Diseases [2016], Kimberly Leonberger, Kelly Jackson, Robbie Smith, Nicole Ward Gauthier

Agriculture and Natural Resources Publications

Anyone who has ever planted a garden knows not only the rewards of beautiful flowers, fruit, and/ or vegetables, but also the disappointment when plants become diseased or damaged. Many factors cause plants to exhibit poor vigor, changes in appearance, or even death. Both abiotic (non-living) and biotic (living) factors can negatively impact plant heath. Disorders that result from non-living factors (such as nutrient deficiencies, over/under watering, temperature stress, and chemical damage) are discussed in subsequent chapters. This chapter focuses on those living organisms that cause disease: fungi, water molds, bacteria, viruses, nematodes, phytoplasmas, and parasitic plants.

Hydrologic And Water Quality Impacts From Perennial Crop Production On Marginal Lands, Qingyu Feng

Open Access Dissertations

Marginal lands are proposed as a viable option for producing biofeedstocks as these lands are not heavily engaged in agricultural production or may not be suitable for intensive row-crop food/feed production. However, meeting biofeedstock production goals will require large amount of marginal lands and the unintended consequences of producing biofeedstocks on marginal lands are not fully clear. The overall goal of this study was to evaluate the productivity of biofeedstocks on marginal lands and the potential impacts on hydrologic and water quality processes from the land use conversion.

This study was conducted in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB). First, …

Nebline, March 2016

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Feature: It’s Easier Than Ever to Connect with Extension — Mobile Device and Social Media are Changing the Way People Learn

Food & Health

Family Living

Farm & Acreage

Horticulture

Pests & Wildlife

4-H & Youth

Extension Calendar

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Ws-2 Introgression In A Proportion Of Arabidopsis Thaliana Col-0 Stock Seed Produces Specific Phenotypes And Highlights The Importance Of Routine Genetic Verification, Mon-Ray Shao, Vikas Shedge, Hardik Kundariya, Fredric R. Lehle, Sally Ann Mackenzie

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Arabidopsis thaliana is an important model organism with a robust network of resources that has been of enormous value to the plant science research community. The use of isogenic material as a reference point or control is critical for many types of experiments in plant molecular biology and genetics. Recently, we noticed that some seed from a common source of the widely used Columbia-0 (Col-0) strain gave rise to plants showing features atypical for this strain. Whole-genome DNA-sequencing and allelespecific PCR assays confirmed that the abnormal individuals contain multiple introgressions from the ecotype Wassilewskija-2 (Ws-2), as described below. This …

Student-Conducted Farmer Video Interviews, Jenn K. Simons, Justin Van Wart, Charles Francis, Kristyn Harms

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

High school agricultural education teachers have expressed concern about the lack of easily accessible educational materials dealing with contemporary topics in sustainable agriculture. There are numerous textbooks and monographs available for farmers and students at the college level, including the highly practical resources available from the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) book series on soil fertility (Magdoff and van Es, 2010), cover crops (Bowman et al., 2007) and building a farm business (DiGiacomo et al., 2003), among others. Although these are full of color photos and easily accessible graphs and tables, they are still in the print media category. …

Research Progress On Detection Methods For Organophosphorus Pesticide In Fruits And Vegetables, Zhang Yajia, Li Zhonghai

Food and Machinery

The organophosphorus pesticide is still widely used in agricultural production, organophosphorus pesticide and its metabolites have more severe toxic to the human body. This paper details the organophosphorus pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables analysis detection technology at home and abroad, and the prospect on the development of organophosphorus pesticide residue detection was discussed.

Comprehensive Evaluation Of Safety And Supervision Path Of Genetically Modified Food, Zhang Zhenxia

Food and Machinery

The safety comprehensive evaluation of genetic modifying food needs for reliable systems for safety testing, traditional food safety regulatory model is no longer suitable for the nerves hazards of genetically modified foods, the real hazards of multiple hazards, the possibility of hazards supervision. Facing with the issue of genetic modifing listed facing China, the author analyzes the comprehensive evaluation of the current domestic situation and genetically modified food safety regulatory issues, and proposes the improving regulatory measures. It is designed to be more reasonable and more effective solution to the issue of genetically modified food regulatory reference.

State, Problems And Ways Of China's Tourism Food Safety Supervision Mechanism, Tan Ye

Food and Machinery

The development of China’s tourism food safety supervision mechanism nowadays presented some new characteristics: the supervision system gradually being perfect, co-operating with tourism and tourism product development and being more open. By analyzing related policy and cases, tourism food safety supervision mechanism also comes up some problems: unclear function, un-perfect legislation, poor safety education, industry self-regulation and social supervision. As a consequence, suggest constructing a comprehensive supervision system, improving laws and regulations construction and strengthening safety education to regulate their relationship, behaviors of food management, improve the level of supervision, deepen the strategy ‘rule of law’, promote steady development of …

Research Development On Control Method In Cold Storage Refrigeration, Xu Minsheng, Xie Jing, Wang Jinfeng

Food and Machinery

No abstract provided.

Progress And Application On Mechanical Processing Techniques Of Sea Cucumber, Xu Wenqi, Shen Jian

Food and Machinery

Expounded the background of cleaning, evisceration and cooking of sea cucumber, introduced the current situation of sea cucumber on domestic and overseas, and analyzed their techniques contrastly. Mainly described technical capabilities of mechanical processing techniques and applications of sets of equipments in practice, for slide sieve, bubble cleaning, evisceration by mechanical stimulation, continuous cooking and extruding. At last the development orientation of applications in the enterprises was prospected.

Advances Of Isolation And Purification Methods In Cereal Protein, Tang Wenjuan, Zhao Hongqing, Xu Zhou, Wen Li, Cheng Yunhui

Food and Machinery

Cereal protein has been extremely difficult to purify and characterize owing to their heterogeneity, poor solubility and tendency to polymerize. In order to have a full understanding of structure and function in cereal protein, to realize the separation and purification of grain protein, the composition and characteristics of cereal proteins were introduced briefly, introduced the research progress comprehensive recitation on principle and model of the grain protein purification domestic and overseas in recent years. The future research prospects of cereal proteins were put forward as well.

Research Progress Of Electrical Properties In Detection Of Food Materials Based On Parallel-Plate Measurements, Yang Na, Jin Yamei, Wu Haixiong, Ma Qian, Jin Zhengyu, Xu Xueming

Food and Machinery

The parallel-plate electrode technique is widely used to evaluate physico-chemical properties of agricultural products because of its high precision, convenience and non-destructiveness. Electrical parameters, such as impedance Z, equivalent capacitance C, admittance Y, quality factors Q, phase angle θ and dielectric constant ε that are detected by this parallel-plate electrode technique can be used to evaluate a food material’s physico-chemical properties, physiological status and quality. Various factors can affect these electrical parameters. Some examples include the environmental factors of temperature and pressure; the measuring conditions of voltage and frequency; and the internal factors of water content, salt content, ripeness, freshness …

Research Progress On Extraction Technology Of Camellia Oil, Yang Jianyuan, Chen Fang, Song Liwen, Hu Rong, Deng Zeyuan

Food and Machinery

Camellia oil is one of the four major woody vegetable oils in the world, which play important roles in prevent cardiovascular disease, anti-tumor, antibiosis, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotection, antioxidant and immunomodulatory. With the rapid development of Camellia oleifera Abel plantation, an efficient camellia oil processing technology must be further improving. The latest research and application of extraction technology of camellia oil by press, solvent extraction, supercritical fluid extraction, aqueous extraction, aqueous enzymatic extraction, and their advantage and disadvantage was introduced in this article, which provided a reference for research a promising extraction technology of camellia oil due to nutrition, safety and economy.