7 CFR 3701.3 - Requests for records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

..., Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705-5128; [email protected]ars.usda.gov or [email protected]ars.usda.gov. The FOIA Coordinator is delegated authority to make...

7 CFR 3601.3 - Requests for records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... Coordinator, Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705...-mail [email protected]ars.usda.gov or [email protected]ars.usda.gov. The FOIA Coordinator is delegated authority to...

7 CFR 3601.3 - Requests for records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... Coordinator, Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705...-mail [email protected]ars.usda.gov or [email protected]ars.usda.gov. The FOIA Coordinator is delegated authority to...

7 CFR 3701.3 - Requests for records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

..., Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705-5128; [email protected]ars.usda.gov or [email protected]ars.usda.gov. The FOIA Coordinator is delegated authority to make...

7 CFR 3701.3 - Requests for records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

..., Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705-5128; [email protected]ars.usda.gov or [email protected]ars.usda.gov. The FOIA Coordinator is delegated authority to make...

7 CFR 3404.3 - Requests for records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

..., Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Room 1-2248, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705...-mail [email protected]ars.usda.gov or [email protected]ars.usda.gov. The FOIA Coordinator is delegated authority to...

7 CFR 3404.3 - Requests for records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... title and submitted to the FOIA Coordinator, Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Room 1-2248, Mail Stop...-VOICE (301) 504-1743; Facsimile (301) 504-1648; e-mail [email protected]ars.usda.gov or [email protected]ars.usda...

Outcomes from the USDA/ARS area-wide project for management of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, became established in the continental US in 1985 and now infests 30 states. In 2007 the USDA Agricultural Research Service funded an “area-wide” project focused on the management of this species. The project was a unique federal, state, local collaborati...

7 CFR 510.3 - Requests for records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... AGRICULTURE PUBLIC INFORMATION § 510.3 Requests for records. Requests for records of ARS under 5 U.S.C. 552(a... Coordinator, Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705...-mail [email protected]ars.usda.gov or [email protected]ars.usda.gov. The FOIA Coordinator is delegated authority to...

7 CFR 510.3 - Requests for records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... AGRICULTURE PUBLIC INFORMATION § 510.3 Requests for records. Requests for records of ARS under 5 U.S.C. 552(a... Coordinator, Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705...-mail [email protected]ars.usda.gov or [email protected]ars.usda.gov. The FOIA Coordinator is delegated authority to...

7 CFR 510.3 - Requests for records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... AGRICULTURE PUBLIC INFORMATION § 510.3 Requests for records. Requests for records of ARS under 5 U.S.C. 552(a... Coordinator, Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705...-mail [email protected]ars.usda.gov or [email protected]ars.usda.gov. The FOIA Coordinator is delegated authority to...

7 CFR 510.3 - Requests for records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... AGRICULTURE PUBLIC INFORMATION § 510.3 Requests for records. Requests for records of ARS under 5 U.S.C. 552(a... Coordinator, Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705...-mail [email protected]ars.usda.gov or [email protected]ars.usda.gov. The FOIA Coordinator is delegated authority to...

7 CFR 510.3 - Requests for records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... AGRICULTURE PUBLIC INFORMATION § 510.3 Requests for records. Requests for records of ARS under 5 U.S.C. 552(a... Coordinator, Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705...-mail [email protected]ars.usda.gov or [email protected]ars.usda.gov. The FOIA Coordinator is delegated authority to...

78 FR 26612 - Notice of Intent To Seek Approval To Conduct an Information Collection

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2013-05-07

... States Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative which is funded by USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS... first survey and funding. Furthermore, ARS will be able to use the data from this survey to determine...

76 FR 53397 - Notice of Intent To Renew Information Collection

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-08-26

...), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) seeks comments on the intent of the United States National Arboretum (USNA... consideration. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by any of the following methods: E-mail: [email protected]ars... requests can be submitted in person or by mail to the Administrative Office, USDA, ARS, U.S. National...

The creation and role of the USDA biomass research centers

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Five USDA Biomass Research Centers were created to facilitate coordinated research to enhance the establishment of a sustainable feedstock production for bio-based renewable energy in the United States. Scientists and staff of the Agriculture Research Service (ARS) and Forest Service (FS) withi...

77 FR 41164 - Joint Subcommittee on Aquaculture Research and Development Strategic Plan

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2012-07-12

... Development Strategic Plan AGENCIES: Agricultural Research Service (ARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA... Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) announce on behalf of the Federal Interagency Working Group on... http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/programs/programs.htm?np_code=106&docid=22641 . DATES: Written...

Compendium of fruit fly host information (CoFFHI), edition 3.0

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Compendium of Fruit Fly Host Information (CoFFHI), edition 3.0 (available at: https://coffhi.cphst.org/), developed through collaborative efforts of scientists in USDA-APHIS, USDA-ARS, and the Center for Integrated Pest Management (CIPM) of North Carolina State University (NCSU), provides centra...

Model development and applications at the USDA-ARS National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a long history of development of soil erosion prediction technology, initially with empirical equations like the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE), and more recently with process-based models such as the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP)...

Compendium of fruit fly host information (CoFFHI), edition 2.0

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Compendium of Fruit Fly Host Information (CoFFHI), edition 2.0, developed through collaborative efforts of scientists in USDA-APHIS, USDA-ARS, and the Center for Integrated Pest Management (CIPM) of North Carolina State University (NCSU), provides centralized online documentation of what is know...

Prioritization of Malus accessions for collection cryopreservation at the USDA-ARS National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System maintains a grafted collection of apple accessions representing 49 taxa in Geneva, NY. Dormant buds of many of these accessions have been routinely cryopreserved at the USDA-ARS National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation (NCGRP) in Fort Collins, C...

Conservation of the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System Apple Collection using dormant bud cryopreservation

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System maintains a grafted collection of apple accessions representing 49 taxa in Geneva, NY. Since 1993, dormant buds of many of these accessions have been routinely cryopreserved at the USDA-ARS National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation (NCGRP) in For...

75 FR 34684 - Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

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2010-06-18

... Service (ARS). EFFECTIVE DATE: This notice will be adopted without further publication in the Federal... FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stasia Hutchison, FOIA/PA Officer, ARS, REE, USDA, 5601 Sunnyside [email protected]ars.usda.gov . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the PA, 5 U.S.C. 552a, USDA hereby takes the...

78 FR 70529 - Notice of Availability for the Final Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding No Significant...

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2013-11-26

... given that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has made a..., 2013. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cal Mather, Environmental Protection Specialist, USDA ARS SHEMB...: [email protected]ars.usda.gov . You may contact Mr. Mather for a copy of the FONSI document. Copies of the...

78 FR 65607 - Availability of the Final Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact...

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2013-11-01

... given that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has made a... 4, 2013. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Phil Smith, Acting Property Team Lead, USDA-ARS-WBSC, 1001 Holleman Drive East, College Station, Texas 77840; Telephone: 979-260-9449; email: [email protected]ars.usda.gov...

78 FR 65606 - Availability of the Final Environmental Assessment (EA) and a Finding of No Significant Impact...

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2013-11-01

...: Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS... CONTACT: Cal Mather, Environmental Protection Specialist, USDA-ARS-SHEMB, NCAUR, 1815 N. University Street, Room 2060, Peoria, Illnois 61604, Telephone: 309-681-6608, or email: [email protected]ars.usda.gov . You may...

78 FR 42928 - Draft Environmental Assessment for the Cotton Quality Research Station Land Transfer

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2013-07-18

... Research Station (CQRS) from the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Clemson, South Carolina, to... comments related to the proposed CQRS Land Transfer by any of the following methods: Email: [email protected]ars.usda.gov , Fax: 309-681-6683. Mail: USDA-ARS-SHEMB, NCAUR, 1815 North University Avenue, Room 2016...

National Site for the Regional IPM Centers

Science.gov Websites

Agriculture USDA Soybean Rust Web Site Latest News - Southern Plant Diagnostic Network Soybean Rust Pest Alert , contact: Kent Smith, (202) 720-3186, ksmith@ars.usda.gov United States Department of Agriculture - National Institute of Food and Agriculture Website managed by the Southern IPM Center. Design adapted from

Genetic diversity and population structure of the Ethiopian sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] germplasm collection maintained by the USDA-ARS, National Plant Germplasm System using SSR markers

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The genetic diversity and population structure present in the Ethiopia sorghum collection maintained by the USDA-ARS, National Plant Germplasm System (USDA-ARS-NPGS) is unknown. In addition, passport information is absent for 83% of these accessions which limit its evaluation and utility. Therefor...

US (ARS)-South African (UP) collaboration on combustion reduction integrated pyrolysis system (CRIP)

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the principal intramural research arm of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and University of Pretoria, South Africa, have entered into a Non-funded Cooperative Research Agreement (NFCA) for 2 years (ending July 31, 2012) to develop an energy...

Soil health, crop productivity, microbial transport, and mine spoil response to biochars

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Biochar is being evaluated by scientists from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) for its potential to sequester soil C, to improve soil health, and to increase crop yields. ARS scientists from multiple locations such as Florence, SC, Kimberly, ID,...

The South Florida Avocado Breeding Program at USDA-Agricultural Research Service Subtropical Horticulture Research Station (USDA-ARS SHRS)

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

USDA-ARS SHRS is part of the USDA National Germplasm Repository system and houses collections of tropical and subtropical fruit trees such as mango, lychee, and avocado. In addition to maintaining the germplasm collections, our mission is to also identify genetic diversity in the collections, to ev...

USDA-ARS extension activities in medical, veterinary and urban entomology

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Within the USDA Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), National Program 104 conducts research on veterinary, medical, and urban entomology. The goal of this program is to develop more effective methods of preventing or suppressing insects, ticks, and mites that affect animal and human well-being....

75 FR 24568 - Notice of Intent To Seek OMB Approval To Collect Information: Revision of a Form Pertaining to...

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2010-05-05

... Peer Review of ARS Research Projects AGENCY: Agricultural Research Service (ARS), USDA. ACTION: Notice... scientific peer reviews of all research activities conducted by the USDA. The Office manages the ARS peer review system by centrally planning peer panel reviews for ARS research projects on a five-year cycle...

76 FR 4088 - Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement

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2011-01-24

..., USDA, ARS, Pacific West Area, ATTN: USSES Grazing Project 2010 Scoping. E-mail comments to: [email protected] the ARS Web site at: http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=53-64-00-00 under ``News and... administrative review or judicial review. Dated: November 22, 2010. Edward B. Knipling, Administrator, ARS. [FR...

USDA Midwest and Northern Forests Regional Climate Hub: Assessment of climate change vulnerability and adaptation and mitigation strategies

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Midwest Regional Climate Hub covers the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin and represents one of the most extensive and intensive agricultural systems in the world. The Northern Forests Climate Sub Hub shares this footprint and represents people...

USDA/ARS Organic Production Research

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

For much of its history, USDA/ARS had little to do with research on organic agriculture, however research in organic systems has made considerable gains at the agency over the past decade. In the 1980's and 1990's, as the organic food industry was taking off, ARS researchers who wanted to serve orga...

Facts about Vitamin K

MedlinePlus

... the amount of vitamin K they contain (USDA- ARS, 2015). Table 2. Sources of vitamin K. Food ... U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service USDA-ARS. (2015). National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release ...

The forest-land owners of Ohio -- 1979

Treesearch

Thomas W. Birch; Thomas W. Birch

1982-01-01

A statistical analytical report on a mail canvass of private commercial forest-land owners in Ohio. The study was conducted in conjunction with the third forest survey of Ohio by the USDA Forest Service. It discusses landowner characteristics, attitudes, and intentions of owners regarding reasons for owning, recreational use, timber management, and harvesting.

75 FR 50983 - Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2010-08-18

... and delete two systems of records maintained by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). DATES: Submit... [email protected]ars.usda.gov . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the PA, 5 U.S.C. 552a, USDA hereby.../ARS-2, Research Medical Records System on Patients and Human Volunteers Participating in Research at...

77 FR 55451 - Notice of Intent To Request an Extension of a Currently Approved Information Collection

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2012-09-10

... of 1995, this notice announces the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) intention to request an..., 2012. ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to June Blalock, USDA, ARS, Office of Technology Transfer, 5601... INFORMATION CONTACT: June Blalock, USDA, ARS, Office of Technology Transfer, 301-504-5989. SUPPLEMENTARY...

75 FR 37749 - Notice of Intent To Request an Extension of a Currently Approved Information Collection

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2010-06-30

... Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) intention... received on or before September 3, 2010. ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to June Blalock, USDA, ARS, Office...; Telephone Number 301-504-5989. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: June Blalock, USDA, ARS, Office of...

7 CFR 3404.3 - Requests for records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

..., Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Room 1-2248, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705...; or E-mail [email protected]ars.usda.gov. The FOIA Coordinator is delegated authority to make determinations...

7 CFR 3404.2 - Public inspection, copying, and indexing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

..., ARS, REE, USDA, Room 1-2248, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705-5128.... Information maintained in our electronic reading room can be accessed at http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/foia...

7 CFR 3404.2 - Public inspection, copying, and indexing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

..., ARS, REE, USDA, Room 1-2248, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705-5128.... Information maintained in our electronic reading room can be accessed at http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/foia...

7 CFR 3404.3 - Requests for records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

..., Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Room 1-2248, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705...; or E-mail [email protected]ars.usda.gov. The FOIA Coordinator is delegated authority to make determinations...

7 CFR 3404.3 - Requests for records.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

..., Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Room 1-2248, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705...; or E-mail [email protected]ars.usda.gov. The FOIA Coordinator is delegated authority to make determinations...

7 CFR 3404.2 - Public inspection, copying, and indexing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

..., ARS, REE, USDA, Room 1-2248, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705-5128.... Information maintained in our electronic reading room can be accessed at http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/foia...

AmeriFlux US-AR2 ARM USDA UNL OSU Woodward Switchgrass 2

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Billesbach, Dave; Bradford, James

This is the AmeriFlux version of the carbon flux data for the site US-AR2 ARM USDA UNL OSU Woodward Switchgrass 2. Site Description - The ARM USDA UNL OSU Woodward Switchgrass 2 tower is located on public land owned by the USDA-ARS Southern Plains Range Research Station in Woodward, Oklahoma. The site is on a former wheat field that is in the process of changing to switchgrass. A companion site (ARM USDA UNL OSU Woodward Switchgrass 1) is on a former native prairie. Previous wheat was planted in Fall 2008. In Spring 2009, herbicide was applied to kill the wheatmore » prior to switchgrass planting. Later in the year, the site was sprayed with post-emergence herbicide. In 2010, fertilization occurred before herbicide was sprayed for broadleaf control.« less

7 CFR 3404.2 - Public inspection, copying, and indexing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Room 1-2248, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705-5128.... Information maintained in our electronic reading room can be accessed at http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/foia...

77 FR 13262 - Notice of Intent To Request an Extension of a Currently Approved Information Collection

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2012-03-06

... 1320 (60 FR 44978, August 29, 1995), this notice announces the Agricultural Research Service (ARS... notice to Wayne Thompson, USDA, ARS, NAL, Collection Services Branch, 10301 Baltimore Ave., Room 305E..., telephone: 301-504-6503; fax: 301-504-7593; email: [email protected]ars.usda.gov . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title...

76 FR 28209 - Notice of Intent To Reestablish the National Genetic Resources Advisory Council, and Request for...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2011-05-16

...-0321; Fasimile: (202) 720-6199. E-mail: [email protected]ars.usda.gov . FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: J. Robert Burk, Designated Federal Official; Phone: (202) 720-8408; E-mail [email protected]ars.usda.gov... resource agriculture producers. Dated: April 5, 2011. Edward B. Knipling, Administrator, ARS. [FR Doc. 2011...

78 FR 40425 - Draft Environmental Assessment for the J. Phil Campbell, Senior, Natural Resource Conservation...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-07-05

... Service (ARS) in Watkinsville, Georgia, to the University of Georgia (UGA) College of Agricultural and... Proposed JPC-NRCC Land Transfer by any of the following methods: Email: [email protected]ars.usda.gov , Fax: 309-681-6683. Mail: USDA-ARS-SHEMB, NCAUR, 1815 North University Avenue, Room 2016, Peoria, Ilinois 61604...

Biological control of weeds: research by the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service: selected case studies.

PubMed

Quimby, Paul C; DeLoach, C Jack; Wineriter, Susan A; Goolsby, John A; Sobhian, Rouhollah; Boyette, C Douglas; Abbas, Hamed K

2003-01-01

Research by the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) on biological control of weeds has been practiced for many years because of its inherent ecological and economic advantages. Today, it is further driven by ARS adherence to Presidential Executive Order 13112 (3 February 1999) on invasive species and to USDA-ARS policy toward developing technology in support of sustainable agriculture with reduced dependence on non-renewable petrochemical resources. This paper reports examples or case studies selected to demonstrate the traditional or classical approach for biological control programs using Old World arthropods against Tamarix spp, Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav) ST Blake and Galium spurium L/G aparine L, and the augmentative approach with a native plant pathogen against Pueraria lobata Ohwi = P montana. The examples illustrated various conflicts of interest with endangered species and ecological complexities of arthropods with associated microbes such as nematodes.

The alfalfa research program in USDA-ARS

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Alfalfa research is currently conducted by scientists employed by the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in nine laboratories located in Minnesota (Saint Paul), Wisconsin (Madison, Prairie du Sac, Marshfield), Maryland (Beltsville), Utah (Logan), Washington (Prosser, Pullman), and Iowa (Ames)....

76 FR 62755 - National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board Meeting Notice

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2011-10-11

... Board; telephone: (202) 720-3684; fax: (202) 720-6199; or e-mail: [email protected]ars.usda.gov or [email protected]ars.usda.gov . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Honorable Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, and...

WebStart WEPS: Remote data access and model execution functionality added to WEPS

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Wind Erosion Prediction System (WEPS) is a daily time step, process based wind erosion model developed by the United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS). WEPS simulates climate and management driven changes to the surface/vegetation/soil state on a daily b...

A new slow darkening pinto bean with improved agronomic performance: Registration of ‘ND-Palomino’

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

ND-Palomino slow darkening pinto is a new cultivar jointly developed by the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), and North Dakota State University (NDSU) and released by the North Dakota Agricultural Experimental Station (NDAES). ND-Palomino has shown co...

Food safety research at Delaware State University: keeping the runs from slowing you down

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

For more than a decade, the USDA ARS Center of Excellence located within the Delaware State University College of Agriculture and Related Sciences has been focused on foodborne virus research with special emphasis on bivalve shellfish. Research accomplishments include: 1) development of expedient e...

78 FR 47271 - Draft Environmental Assessment for the Kika de la Garza Subtropical Agricultural Research Center...

Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

2013-08-05

... Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Weslaco, Texas, to The Texas A&M University System (TAMUS). The KSARC is... Land Transfer by any of the following methods: Email: [email protected]ars.usda.gov , Fax: 979-260-9344. Mail: USDA-ARS-WBSC, 1001 Holleman Drive East, College Station, Texas 77840. Copies of the Draft EA for the...

77 FR 26725 - Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture Meeting

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2012-05-07

...; Fax (202) 690-4265; Email [email protected]ars.usda.gov . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The next meeting of the AC21... Email at [email protected]ars.usda.gov at least 5 days prior to the meeting. Please provide your name...

SoyBase, The USDA-ARS Soybean Genetics and Genomics Database

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

SoyBase, the USDA-ARS soybean genetic database, is a comprehensive repository for professionally curated genetics, genomics and related data resources for soybean. SoyBase contains the most current genetic, physical and genomic sequence maps integrated with qualitative and quantitative traits. The...

USDA-ARS Quartlerly News

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

This quarterly article is an update of research going on at The USDA-ARS Thad Cochran Southern Horticultural Laboratory in Poplarville, MS to be published in the Louisiana Nursery and Landscape Associations (LANLA) quarterly newsletter. This is one of three publications that I am sending out to the ...

Color analysis of storage roots from the USDA, ARS sweetpotato germplasm collection

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

USDA, ARS, Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit (PGRCU) in Griffin, GA, maintains the U.S. germplasm collection for Ipomoea spp. (Convolvulaceae). During 2012-2014, 737 sweetpotato, Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam., plant introduction (PI) accessions were acquired as tissue culture plantlets, acclima...

Chemical alternatives to methyl bromide for Florida ornamental production

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

This project is a cooperative effort among USDA, ARS and University of Florida researchers, Florida in-ground ornamental producers, and fumigant industry representatives. Funding is provided through the USDA-ARS Area-wide Pest Management Program for Alternatives to Methyl Bromide. The ornamental i...

Registration of USDA-UTWH-102 winter hardy orchardgrass germplasm

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-ARS announces the release of USDA-UTWG-102 orchardgrass (Dactylis glomerata L.) (Reg. No., PI) germplasm. USDA-UTWH-102 possesses increased winter hardiness and provides utility to applied orchardgrass breeding and genetic programs. USDA-UTWH-102 is a 24 clone synthetic derived from orchard...

Potato-related research at USDA-ARS laboratories in Washington and Idaho

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Potato-related research currently being conducted at three USDA-ARS laboratories in Idaho and Washington is reviewed. Objectives of research programs at the Temperate Tree Fruit & Vegetable Research Unit (Wapato, WA), the Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center (Prosser, WA), and the Sm...

Update to the USDA-ARS fixed-wing spray nozzle models

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The current USDA ARS Aerial Spray Nozzle Models were updated to reflect both new standardized measurement methods and systems, as well as, to increase operational spray pressure, aircraft airspeed and nozzle orientation angle limits. The new models were developed using both Central Composite Design...

Evaluating citrus germplasm for huanglongbing (HLB) resistance: USDA-ARS Inoculation Program

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri, is an important pest because it vectors bacteria responsible for a serious disease of citrus known as huanglongbing (citrus greening disease). USDA-ARS researchers recently established a program for screening citrus germplasm for resistance to the di...

Registration of Sawtooth low-phytate, hulled spring barley

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS), has released 'Sawtooth', (Hordeum vulgare L.) (Reg. No. xxxxxx, P.I. xxxxxx). Sawtooth is a hulless, low-phytate, spring barley, the second to be developed and released by the USDA-ARS. Compared to the previously released ...

Developing a low cortisol responsive line of channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Nagaraj G. Chatakondi and Brian C. Peterson USDA ARS Warmwater Aquaculture Research Unit, 141 Experiment Station Road, Stoneville, MS 38776. nagaraj.chatakondi@ars.usda.gov Channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus is the most important farm-raised aquacultured species in the USA. Stressors in aquacultu...

Development and Applications of a Bovine 50,000 SNP Chip

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To develop an Illumina iSelect high density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) assay for cattle, the collaborative iBMC (Illumina, USDA ARS Beltsville, University of Missouri, USDA ARS Clay Center) Consortium first performed a de novo SNP discovery project in which genomic reduced representation l...

Beta PIs from the USDA-ARS NPGS evaluated for resistance to Cercospora beticola, 2013

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Thirty-one Plant Introductions (PIs) from the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System were evaluated for resistance to Cercospora beticola in an artificially produced epiphytotic at the Saginaw Valley Research and Extension Center near Frankenmuth, Michigan. Internal controls included a susceptibl...

Beta PIs from the USDA-ARS NPGS evaluated for resistance to Cercospora beticola, 2014

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Thirty Plant Introductions (PIs) from the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System were evaluated for resistance to Cercospora beticola in an artificially produced epiphytotic at the Saginaw Valley Research and Extension Center near Frankenmuth, Michigan. Internal controls included a susceptible, '...

Beta PIs from the USDA-ARS NPGS evaluated for resistance to Cercospora beticola, 2011

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Thirty Plant Introductions (PIs) from the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System were evaluated for resistance to Cercospora beticola in an artificially produced epiphytotic at the Saginaw Valley Research and Extension Center near Frankenmuth, MI. Internal controls included a susceptible commercia...

Beta PIs From the USDA-ARS NPGS Evaluated for Resistance to Cercospora beticola, 2009

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Thirty Plant Introductions (PIs) from the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System were evaluated for resistance to Cercospora beticola in an artificially produced epiphytotic at the Saginaw Valley Research Farm near Frankenmuth, MI. Internal controls included a susceptible commercial variety, CE, ...

Beta PIs from the USDA-ARS NPGS evaluated for resistance to Cercospora beticola, 2012

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Thirty Plant Introductions (PIs) from the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System were evaluated for resistance to Cercospora beticola in an artificially produced epiphytotic at the Saginaw Valley Research and Extension Center near Frankenmuth, MI. Internal controls included a susceptible germplas...

Beta PIs from the USDA-ARS NPGS evaluated for resistance to Cercospora beticola, 2010

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Thirty Plant Introductions (PIs) from the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System were evaluated for resistance to Cercospora beticola in an artificially produced epiphytotic at the Saginaw Valley Research and Extension Center near Frankenmuth, MI. Internal controls included a susceptible commercia...

AmeriFlux US-AR1 ARM USDA UNL OSU Woodward Switchgrass 1

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Billesbach, Dave; Bradford, James

This is the AmeriFlux version of the carbon flux data for the site US-AR1 ARM USDA UNL OSU Woodward Switchgrass 1. Site Description - The ARM USDA UNL OSU Woodward Switchgrass 1 tower is located on public land owned by the USDA-ARS Southern Plains Range Research Station in Woodward, Oklahoma. The site is on a former native prairie that is in the process of changing to switchgrass. A second companion site (ARM USDA UNL OSU Woodward Switchgrass 2) is on a former wheat field. In Spring 2009, the former native prairie site was burned, cattle were put on the pasturemore » to graze down emergent grass, and broadleaf herbicide was sprayed. In Summer 2009, the cattle were removed from the pasture, and the site was sprayed with herbicide to kill all grass. In Spring 2010, prior to the planting of switchgrass, final herbicide was sprayed to kill cheat grass and to control broadleaf plants.« less

National Date Palm Germplasm Repository

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The National Clonal Germplasm Repository for Citrus & Dates (NCGRCD), located in Riverside, California USA, is a project of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The NCGRCD maintains a collection of germplasm of date palm (Phoneix dactylifera ...

‘Columbia Sunrise’ thornless trailing blackberry

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

‘Columbia Sunrise’ is a new, very early ripening, thornless trailing blackberry (Rubus subg. Rubus Watson) cultivar from the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) breeding program in Corvallis, OR, released in cooperation with Oregon State University’s Agricultural ...

Arthropod genomics research in the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service: Current impacts and future prospects

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the intramural research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which employs scientists to conduct basic and applied research aimed to develop and transfer solutions to agricultural problems of high national priority and to ensure food...

The tropical germplasm repository program at the USDA-ARS, Tropical Agriculture Research Station, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-ARS Tropical Agriculture Research Station is the only research entity within the National Plant Germplasm system in the insular Caribbean region. It houses germplasm collections of cultivated tropical/subtropical germplasm of bananas/plantains, cacao, mamey sapote, sapodilla, Spanish lime,...

Research Update: The USDA-ARS-Conservation and Production Research Laboratory, Bushland, Texas

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This presentation/manuscript provide a brief summary of beef cattle feeding-related research conducted at the USDA-ARS-Conservation and Production Research Laboratory, Bushland, Texas, over the past four years. It summarizes data that has been published in scientific journals, in symposia and confer...

Cacao genetic resources research at the USDA-ARS Tropical Agriculture Research Station, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The current USDA ARS Tropical Agriculture Research Station’s (TARS) cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) collection in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, consists of 262 clonally propagated accessions. Each accession is represented by six individual trees grafted onto a common ‘Amelonado’ seedling rootstock and planted ...

Musa spp. germplasm management: microsatellite fingerprinting of USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) collection

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-ARS Tropical Agriculture Research Station (TARS) is responsible for conserving germplasm of a number of important agricultural crop species. A banana (Musa spp.) collection has been established at TARS that is comprised of diploid, triploid and tetraploid accessions of cultivated, ornament...

Medium- and long-term storage of the Pycnanthemum (Mountain mint) germplasm collection

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The US collection of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum Michx.) is held at the USDA-ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR) in Corvallis, OR as seed, potted plants and tissue cultures and a long-term storage collection is preserved at the USDA-ARS National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation ...

Implementation of Citrus Shoot Tip Cryopreservation in the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) maintains 540 Citrus cultivars and crop wild relatives as duplicate clones in a screenhouse at the National Clonal Germplasm Repository for Citrus and Dates (NCGRCD) in Riverside, California. These 540 accessions are pathogen-tested and apparently ...

76 FR 71933 - Office of the Under Secretary, Research, Education, and Economics; Notice of the Advisory...

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...; Email [email protected]ars.usda.gov . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The next meeting of the AC21 has been scheduled for... register by contacting Ms. Dianne Fowler at (202) 720-4074 or by Email at [email protected]ars.usda.gov at...

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...; E-mail [email protected]ars.usda.gov . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The first meeting of the reconstituted AC21... Ms. Dianne Fowler at (202) 720-4074, by fax at (202) 720-3191 or by e- mail at [email protected]ars.usda...

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...; Fax (202) 690-4265; Email [email protected]ars.usda.gov . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The next meeting of the AC21... Fowler at (202) 720-4074 or by Email at [email protected]ars.usda.gov at least 5 days prior to the meeting...

Beet curly top resistance in USDA-ARS Ft. Collins Germplasm, 2012

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Seventeen sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) lines from the USDA-ARS Ft. Collins sugar beet program were screened for resistance to Beet severe curly top virus (BSCTV) and other closely related Curtovirus species in 2012. Commercial sugar beet cultivars Monohikari and HM PM90 were included as susceptibl...

THE TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL GERMPLASM COLLECTIONS AT THE NATIONAL GERMPLASM REPOSITORY IN MIAMI, FL

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The Subtropical and Tropical USDA, ARS, National Germplasm Repositories (NGR) in Miami, FL; Mayaguez, PR; and Hilo, HI are responsible for the collections of subtropical and tropical fruits, nuts, grasses, and ornamentals for the USDA, ARS, National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS). The NPGS is respons...

CACAO (THEOBROMA CACAO L.) GENETIC RESOURCES RESEARCH AT THE USDA-ARS TROPICAL AGRICULTURE RESEARCH STATION

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The current USDA ARS Tropical Agriculture Research Station’s cacao (Theobroma cacao) collection consists of 154 clonally propagated accessions. Each accession is represented by six individual trees grafted on Amelonado rootstocks and planted in a completely randomized block design with three blocks...

Registration of Harriman low-phytate, hulled spring barley

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA-ARS), has released 'Harriman', (Hordeum vulgare L.) (Reg. No. xxxxxx, P.I. xxxxxx). Harriman is a hulled, low-phytate barley, the second to be developed and released by the USDA-ARS. Compared to the previously released hulled, l...

History of cotton fiber bioscience research at USDA-ARS Southern Regional Research Center

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Improving fiber quality has been an important breeding goal for cotton breeders. Better understanding of fiber development helps cotton scientists to devise a strategy for crop improvement either through marker-assisted selection or via manipulation of fiber genes. USDA-ARS Southern Regional Researc...

Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model status and updates

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

This presentation will provide current information on the USDA-ARS Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model, and its implementation by the USDA-Forest Service (FS), USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and other agencies and universities. Most recently, the USDA-NRCS has begun ef...

The genomic impacts of drift and selection for hybrid performance in maize

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Modern maize breeding relies upon selection in inbreeding populations to improve performance in cross-population hybrids. The United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) reciprocal recurrent selection experiment between the BSSS and BSCB1 populations represent...

‘Columbia Giant’ thornless trailing blackberry

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

‘Columbia Giant’ is a new thornless, very large fruited, trailing blackberry (Rubus subg. Rubus Watson) cultivar from the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) breeding program in Corvallis, OR, released in cooperation with Oregon State University’s Agricultural Exp...

Assessing genetic diversity of wild Southeastern American Vaccinium species using microsatellite markers

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)-Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR) in Corvallis, Oregon, preserves genetic resources of fruit crops. This genebank contains more than 1700 Vaccinium accessions from 33 countries. Wild species representat...

Video data of flowers, fruitlets, and fruit in apple trees during the 2017 growing season at USDA-ARS-AFRS

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This record contains videos of apple trees acquired from a ground vehicle throughout the growing season at the USDA-ARS, Appalachian Fruit Research Station. Research in precision management methods in orchard crops revolve around locating objects of interest, namely flowers, fruitlets, and fruit, a...

Malus sieversii: a diverse Central Asian apple species in the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

There are several Central Asian Malus species and varieties in the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) apple collection. Malus sieversii is the most comprehensively collected species native to Central Asia. Other taxa such as M. sieversii var. kirghisorum, M. sieversii var. turkmenorum, ...

Sustaining the future of plant breeding: The critical role of the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Plant breeders require genetic diversity in their breeding programs to develop cultivars that are productive, nutritious, tolerant of biotic and abiotic stresses, and make efficient use of water and fertilizer. The USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) is a major source for global plant ge...

Long-term agro-ecosystem research or the southern great plains: The USDA-ARS Grazinglands Research Laboratory partnership

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is coordinating ten well-established research sites as a Long-Term Agro-ecosystem Research (LTAR) Network. The goal of the LTAR is to sustain a land-based infrastructure for research, environmental management testing, and education, that enables understan...

The World Sugarcane and Related Grasses Collection at USDA/ARS Genebank Repository in Miami, Florida, USA

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

In early 1980’s the USDA-ARS established the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) a network of gene banks to preserve genetic resources of importance to National and International agriculture. The National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR) in Miami, Florida is one of these repositories. This repo...

Total leaf crude protein, amino acid composition and elemental content in the USDA-ARS bamboo germplasm collection

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Bamboo shoots and leaves are valuable food sources for both humans and livestock. The USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) collections hold 93 bamboo species in 20 genera. Total leaf protein, amino acid composition and elemental content for these important genetic resources had never bee...

The latest progress in sugarcane molecular genetics research at the USDA-ARS, Sugarcane Research Laboratory

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

In 2005, two sugar molecular genetics tools were developed in the USDA-ARS, Southeast Area, Sugarcane Research Laboratory at Houma, LA. One is the high throughput fluorescence- and capillary electrophoregrams (CE)-based SSR genotyping tool and the other is single pollen collection and SSR genotyping...

Beta PIs from the USDA-ARS NPGS evaluated for resistance to Cercospora beticola, 2008

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Sixty-two Plant Introductions (PIs) from the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System were evaluated in an artificially produced epiphytotic for resistance to Cercospora beticola at the Saginaw Valley Bean and Beet Research Farm in MI. Internal controls included a susceptible check, USH20, and a res...

ARS Nursery and Floricultural Crop Research in Ohio

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Application Technology Research Unit is the largest multidisciplinary research team in the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, conducting studies on floricultural and nursery crops. On-farm research, part of ATRU Mission to conduct fundamental and development...

Identification and conservation of apple genetic diversity

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) maintains a vast collection of plant genetic resources that includes over 570,000 accessions representing nearly 15,000 species. This collection is dispersed amongst 17 active sites throughout the United States. The NPGS base collection at the Nati...

‘Baby Blues’ highbush blueberry

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

‘Baby Blues’ is a new highbush blueberry from the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) breeding program in Corvallis, OR, released in cooperation with Oregon State University’s Agricultural Experiment Station. ‘Baby Blues’ is a vigorous, high-yielding, very small-f...

Chapter 3 The state of the land

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has used resource inventories for over 65 years to assess the Nation’s natural resources on non-Federal lands. Since 1995, an interagency group composed of the NRCS, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), and Geological Survey (USGS) have worked t...

A review of aquatic weed biology and management research conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service.

PubMed

Anderson, Lars W J

2003-01-01

Ever-increasing demand for water to irrigate crops, support aquaculture, provide domestic water needs and to protect natural aquatic and riparian habitats has necessitated research to reduce impacts from a parallel increase in invasive aquatic weeds. This paper reviews the past 4-5 years of research by USDA-ARS covering such areas as weed biology, ecology, physiology and management strategies, including herbicides, biological control and potential for use of natural products. Research approaches range from field-level studies to highly specific molecular and biochemical work, spanning several disciplines and encompassing the most problematic weeds in these systems. This research has led to new insights into plant competition, host-specificity, and the fate of aquatic herbicides, their modes of action and effects on the environment. Another hallmark of USDA-ARS research has been its many collaborations with other federal, state action and regulatory agencies and private industry to develop new solutions to aquatic weed problems that affect our public natural resources and commercial enterprises.

A User’s Manual for: Electromagnetic Surface Patch Code (ESP).

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1981-07-01

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Ft. Collins sugar beet germplasm evaluated for rhizomania and storage rot resistance in Idaho, 2015

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Fifty-seven sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) lines from the USDA-ARS Ft. Collins sugar beet program and four check cultivars were screened for resistance to Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV), the causal agent of rhizomania, and storage rot. The rhizomania evaluation was conducted at the USDA-ARS...

Diversity captured in the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System apple core collection

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Core collections have been used widely in genetic resources to provide a representative and compact sample to use in breeding evaluation. In the 1990s a core set was developed by the USDA-ARS Plant Genetic Resources Unit (PGRU) in Geneva, NY. Using data available at the time, a core set was develo...

Vineyard management practices and the quality of grapes and grape products in the Pacific Northwest - USDA-ARS CRIS (Current Research Information System) project

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

One of our three program goals for this USDA-ARS-CRIS project is to determine the effects of vineyard and vine microclimate (sunlight, temperature, humidity, etc) upon fruit development, vine productivity, and fruit quality, particularly phenolic compounds. Plant phenolics are important due to their...

Sensitivity analysis of tracer transport in variably saturated soils at USDA-ARS OPE3 field site

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The objective of this study was to assess the effects of uncertainties in hydrologic and geochemical parameters on the results of simulations of the tracer transport in variably saturated soils at the USDA-ARS OPE3 field site. A tracer experiment with a pulse of KCL solution applied to an irrigatio...

Sugar Beet Activities of the USDA-ARS East Lansing Conducted in Cooperation with Saginaw Valley Bean and Beet Farm During 2009

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Two evaluation plots were planted at the Saginaw Valley Research & Extension Center in Frankenmuth, MI in 2009; one agronomic trial and one combined Cercospora evaluation trial. All trials were planted, following normal fall and spring tillage operations, with a USDA-ARS modified John Deere/Almaco ...

Mosquito and Fly Surveillance and Control Research at the USDA-ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology: Solving Operational Challenges

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Mosquito and Fly Research Unit of the USDA-ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology located in Gainesville Florida is the largest Federal laboratory devoted to specifically solving operational mosquito and fly surveillance and control challenges in the U.S. and internationa...

Increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of curation of the USDA-ARS world rice collection

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The world rice collection is part of the USDA-ARS National Small Grains Collection (NSGC) that includes the cereal crops wheat, oats, barley, and rye, as well as related wild species. The Oryza accessions include 12 species that comprise 9% of the NSGC collection. Over 19,000 rice accessions origin...

Registration of "MSU E5024" wheat

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

'MSU E5024' (Reg. No. CV-1077, PI 664078) soft white winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was developed by Michigan State University (MSU) AgBioResearch and released in 2011 via exclusive licensing agreements through MSU Technologies. In addition to researchers at MSU, USDA-ARS researchers at the Sof...

Registration of 'UFCP 84-1047' Sugarcane

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

UFCP 84-1047 (Reg. No.; PI xxxx) was released by the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Services (USDA-ARS), Canal Point (CP), Florida, and the University of Florida (UF) for its potential use in cellulosic ethanol production. UFCP 84-1047 is a high fiber sugarcane (Saccha...

Lessons learned from DNA-based tool development and use in a genebank

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

In 2002, a molecular genetics laboratory was established at the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR), in Corvallis, Oregon. This facility houses the US national genebank for strawberry (Fragaria L.). A main obje...

USDA, ARS, ABDRL Research on Countermeasures for Rift Valley Fever Virus

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The United State Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service has recently established research program to address countermeasures for of Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus (RVFV). The recent outbreak in Kenya, Tanzania and Somalia demonstrates the impact this virus can have on human and live...

Maximizing industry benefit through cooperation between federal, state and private-sector floricultural research efforts

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

he USDA-ARS Greenhouse Production Research Group was established to provide a federally funded research emphasis on greenhouse crop production. It has focused on broad production issues (nutrition, water management, and energy conservation) by coordinating research between in-house researchers, Uni...

Technology for Improving Production, Economic Efficiency, Quality, and Sustainability in Peanut Production and Handling

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

USDA ARS National Peanut Research Laboratory has a very diverse scientific staff conducting research to address the needs of the United States peanut industry. Research is conducted in the fields of mycology, chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, breeding, agronomy, economics, and engineering....

Technology for Improving Production, Economic Efficiency, Quality and Sustainability in Peanut Production and Handling

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

USDA ARS National Peanut Research Laboratory has a very diverse scientific staff conducting research to address the needs of the United States peanut industry. Research is conducted in the fields of mycology, chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, breeding, agronomy, economics, and engineering....

Technology for improving production, economic efficiency, quality, and sustainability in peanut production and handling

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

USDA ARS National Peanut Research Laboratory has a very diverse scientific staff conducting research to address the needs of the United States peanut industry. Research is conducted in the fields of mycology, chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, breeding, agronomy, economics, and engineering....

Registration of ‘plateau’ waxy (amylose-free) proso millet

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The waxy (amylose-free starch) proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) cultivar ‘Plateau’ was developed by the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station. In addition, faculty and staff from University of Wyoming (UW), Colorado State University (CSU), and USDA-ARS, Lincoln, NE and Akron, CO assisted in tr...

A comparison of β-adrenoceptors and muscarinic cholinergic receptors in tissues of brown bullhead catfish (Ameiurus nebulosus) from the black river and old woman creek, Ohio

USGS Publications Warehouse

Steevens, Jeffery A.; Baumann, Paul C.; Jones, Susan B.

1996-01-01

β-Adrenoceptors (βARs) and muscarinic cholinergic receptors were measured in brain, gill, and heart tissues of brown bullhead catfish exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Black River, Ohio, USA, and were compared to values from Old Woman Creek, Ohio, a reference site. A decreased number of βARs were found in the gill from Black River fish, possibly indicating a compensatory response subsequent to chemical stress.

USDA-ARS Colorado maize water productivity data set

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-Agricultural Research Service conducted a water productivity field trial for irrigated maize in northeastern Colorado in 2008 through 2011. The dataset, which is available online from the USDA National Agricultural Library, includes measurements of irrigation, precipitation, soil water sto...

Arthropod genomics research in the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service: Applications of RNA interference and CRISPR gene editing technologies in pest control

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the intramural research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) which addresses basic scientific questions and develops applied solutions to a range of agricultural problems, and in doing so protects national food security and supports ...

Registration of cotton germplasm USDA MD 16-1 and USDA MD 16-2 with enhanced lint yield and fiber quality.

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Upland cotton germplasm USDA MD 16-1 (Reg. No. __ and PI ___ ), and USDA MD 16-2 (Reg. No. ___ and PI___) (Gossypium hirsutum L.), have enhanced yield and good fiber quality. These germplasm lines were developed by the USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS and released in 2017. Two crosses, MD 25-51 X MD 10-9-1 ...

Numerical simulations of water flow and tracer transport in soils at the USDA-ARS Beltsville OPE3 field site

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The objective of this study was to develop a realistic model to simulate the complex processes of flow and tracer transport in USDA-ARS OPE3 field site and to compare simulation results with the detailed monitoring observations. The site has been studied for over 10 years with the extensive availabl...

76 FR 60358 - Gypsy Moth Generally Infested Areas; Additions in Indiana, Maine, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia...

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... Virginia, and Wisconsin AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA. ACTION: Affirmation of... amended the regulations to add areas in Indiana, Maine, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin to..., West Virginia, and Wisconsin to the list of generally infested areas. \\1\\ To view the interim rule and...

Nitrous oxide emissions from soil amended with low-phosphorus broiler litter

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Regions of the United States with a high concentration of poultry farms have soils with excess nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) far beyond the agronomic requirement of crops because of recurrent land application of broiler litter. A new waste treatment technology developed by USDA-ARS, called “Quick ...

Sugarcane aphid resistant sorghums found within USDA-ARS Lubbock, TX genotypes

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari, was discovered infesting grain sorghum in the southern United States in 2013 and has been a perennial pest through 2016. We evaluated 25 sorghum genotypes in a search for host plant resistance to this pest. Plants were started from seed (N = 16 replication...

Sequencing the Cacao Genome: Overall Strategy and SNP Discovery for Cacao Improvement.

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

On June 26, 2008, the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Mars, Incorporated, and IBM announced that they are combining their scientific resources to sequence and analyze the entire genome of Theobroma cacao L., an understory tree from the Amazon basin w...

Identifying resistance to powdery mildew race 2W in the USDA-ARS watermelon germplasm collection

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Powdery mildew caused by Podosphaera xanthii has become a common disease of watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai] in the United States. The disease can be controlled with fungicides. However, it is more economical and environmentally safe to use genetic resistance against this di...

Registration of ‘Krimson’ cranberry bean

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Cranberry is an important dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) market class grown in the United States and Canada. Beet curly top virus (BCTV) plagues cranberry bean production in the western U.S. (CA, ID, OR, WA). ‘Krimson’ (Reg. No. CV PI 663911 ) cranberry bean released by the USDA-ARS in 2009, ...

Economic implications for the biological control of Arundo donax: Rio Grande Basin

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Giant reed, Arundo donax L., is a large bamboo-like plant native to the Mediterranean region. It has invaded several thousand hectares of the Rio Grande riparian habitat in Texas and Mexico. The United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) is investigating four ...

Registration of ‘CPCL 02-6848’ Sugarcane

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Development of 'CPCL 02-6848' (Reg. No. 667596; PI), sugarcane (a complex hybrid of Saccharum spp.) was initiated by the United States Sugar Corporation (USSC) and completed by collaborative research of the USDA-ARS, the University of Florida, and the Florida Sugar Cane League, Inc. The female paren...

Economic implications for the biological control of Arundo donax: Rio Grande Basin

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Giant reed, Arundo donax L., is a large, bamboo-like plant native to the Mediterranean region. It has invaded several thousand hectares of the Rio Grande riparian habitat in Texas and Mexico. The United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) is investigating four...

Registration of ‘HoCP 04-838’ sugarcane

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

‘HoCP 04-838’ sugarcane (an interspecific hybrid of S. officinarum, S. barberi Jeswiet, S. spontaneum, and S. sinense Roxb. amend. Jeswiet) was selected and evaluated by scientists at the USDA-ARS, working cooperatively with the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, and the American Sugar ...

Registration of ‘Ho 00-961’ sugarcane

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

‘Ho 00-961’ (Reg. No., PI) sugarcane (a complex hybrid of Saccharum officinarum L., S. spontaneum L., S. barberi Jeswiet, and S. sinense Roxb. amend. Jeswiet) was selected by the USDA-ARS Sugarcane Research Unit, and evaluated cooperatively with the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, an...

Breeding Perspectives and Programs at East Lansing

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

USDA-ARS sugar beet breeding activities for both Aphanomyces resistance and CMS/O-type conversion at East Lansing reach back to the 1940’s, with variety testing activities at Michigan State University reaching back to circa 1911. Many of those contributions are well known in the sugar beet breeding ...

Solar heated beehives

DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI.GOV)

Hardin, B.

1985-02-01

A new translucent plastic cover for bee hives is described which will serve as a passive solar collector and insulator. Scientists at the USDA-ARS designed the cover to maintain bees in cold weather. It should be of interest to beekeepers in northern states who have had to destroy colonies to avoid overwintering costs.

Assessment of molecular diversity and population structure of the Ethiopian sorghum [Sorghum bicolor L. (Moench)] germplasm collection maintained by the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System using SSR markers

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The genetic diversity and population structure present in the Ethiopian sorghum collection maintained at the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) has not been studied. In addition, 83% of the accessions in the Ethiopian collection lack passport information which has constrained their eval...

Duplication in the Domestica Apple Collection within the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System in Geneva, New York

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The USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System maintains more than 1300 named accessions of Malus x domestica in a field collection in Geneva, NY. Seven microsatellite markers (GD12, GD15, GD96, GD103, GD142, GD147, GD162) were used to identify duplicates within a set of 1240 domestica accessions with...

USDA Gin Lab Updates

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This presentation provides an update to ginning industry stakeholders on current research efforts ongoing at the three USDA ARS ginning laboratories in Lubbock, TX, Stoneville, MS, and Mesilla Park, NM....

United States Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) Eastern Regional Research Center Core Technologies

PubMed Central

Nunez, A.; Strahan, G.; Soroka, D.S.; Damert, W.; Needleman, D.

2011-01-01

The Core Technologies (CT) unit, located at the Eastern Regional Research Center (ERRC), is a centralized resource of specialized instrumentation and technologies. Its objective is to provide supplementary research data processing, interpretation, analysis and consultation for a broad range of research programs approved by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the in-house research arm of the United States Department of Agriculture. The CT unit is comprised of four research related components: genetic analysis, proteomicsbiopolymers mass spectrometry, electron microscopy, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). In addition, the Research Data Systems, the information pipeline of the CT, provides the means to facilitate data distribution to researchers, stakeholders, and the general public. The availability of integrated resource laboratories assures professional and dependable support to the goals of the ARS community.

Sage Russet: A new high yielding dual-purpose russet variety, with cold-sweetening resistance, high vitamin C and protein contents and excellent fresh pack and processing potential

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Sage Russet was released in 2009 by Oregon State University, in cooperation with the USDA-ARS and the Agricultural Experiment Stations of Idaho and Washington. It is a product of the Northwest Potato Variety (Tri-State) Development Program. Sage Russet has a medium-early maturity and produces long, ...

Association analysis using USDA diverse rice (Oryza sativa L.) germplasm collections to identify loci influencing grain quality traits

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he USDA rice (Oryza sativa L.) core subset (RCS) was assembled to represent the genetic diversity of the entire USDA-ARS National Small Grains Collection and consists of 1,794 accessions from 114 countries. The USDA rice mini-core (MC) is a subset of 217 accessions from the RCS and was selected to ...

Recovery plan for laurel wilt of avocado, caused by Raffaelea lauricola

Treesearch

R. C . Ploetz; M. A . Hughes; P. E . Kendra; S. W . Fraedrich; D Carrillo; L. L. Stelinski; J. Hulcr; A. E. Mayfield III; Tyler Dreaden; J. H . Crane; E. A. Evans; B. A. Schaffer; J. A. Rollins

2017-01-01

Summary. Laurel wilt kills American members of the Lauraceae plant family, including avocado (Persea americana). The disease threatens commercial production in the United States and other countries, and currently impacts the avocado industry in Florida. As laurel wilt spreads, the National Germplasm Repository for avocado in Miami (USDA-ARS) and...

Crop water use measurement using a weighing lysimeter at the Dayr Alla Research Station in the Jordan Valley, Jordan

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Since 2003, a regional project funded by USDA-ARS-OIRP has focused on improving irrigation scheduling in Jordan, Palestine and Israel. The Middle Eastern Regional Irrigation Management Information Systems (MERMIS) project involves cooperators from Palestine, Jordan, Israel and the United States, all...

Agricultural, Runoff, Erosion and Salinity (ARES) Database to Better Evaluate Rangeland State and Sustainability

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Rangelands comprise approximately 40% of the earth’s surface and are the largest land cover type in the world. Degradation from mismanagement, desertification, and drought impact more than 50% of rangelands across the globe. The USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has been evaluating means of r...

Registration of Mp718 and Mp719 germplasm lines of maize

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Maize (Zea mays L.) germplasm lines Mp718 (Reg. No. GP-xxxx, PI 662045) and Mp719 (Reg. No. GP-xxxx, PI 662046) were developed and released by USDA-ARS in cooperation with the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Mississippi State, Mississippi, as sources of resistance to aflat...

Registration of 'UFCP 87-0053' sugarcane for use as a biofuel feedstock

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UFCP 87-0053 (Reg. No.; PI xxxx) was released by the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Services (USDA-ARS), Canal Point (CP), Florida, and the University of Florida (UF) for its potential use in cellulosic ethanol production. UFCP UFCP 87-0053 is a high fiber sugarcane (S...

Registration of 'UFCP 84-1047' Sugarcane for Use as a Biofuel Feedstock

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UFCP 84-1047 (Reg. No.; PI xxxx) was releaded by the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Services (USDA-ARS), Canal Point (CP), Florida, and the University of Florida (UF) for its potential use in cellulosic ethanol production. UFCP 84-1047 is a high fiber sugarcane (Sacch...

Registration of ‘CPCL 05-1102’ Sugarcane

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‘CPCL 05-1102’ sugarcane (a complex hybrid of Saccharum spp.) is the product of research initiated by the United States Sugar Corporation (USSC), and completed cooperatively by the USDA-ARS, the University of Florida, and the Florida Sugar Cane League, Inc. CPCL 05-1102 was released to growers in Fl...

The Germplasm Enhancement of Maize (GEM) project: A Public-Private Partnership (PPP) to increase genetic diversity in US maize

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The Germplasm Enhancement of Maize (GEM) Project is a mission-oriented, cooperative research effort of the United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), land grant universities, private industry, and international agricultural research centers to broaden the ger...

Registration of ‘Ho 02-113’ Sugarcane

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‘Ho 02-113’ sugarcane was released by the USDA-ARS Sugarcane Research Unit working cooperatively with the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, and the American Sugarcane League of the U.S.A. This high-fiber sugarcane variety was released for use as a biofuel feedstock to fill the rising i...

The USDA-ARS area-wide project for management of the asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus

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The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, is among the most invasive species in the world. Established in the U.S. since 1985, this species now infests 30 states and continues to spread internationally. Concerned public health officials recognize this species as an important vector of chikunguny...

LTAR research: Aspiring to meet production and conservation objectives on the USDA-ARS Central Plains Experimental Range, Nunn, Colorado, USA

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The Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network consists of 18 sites across the continental United States (US) sponsored by the US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, universities and non-governmental organizations. LTAR scientists seek to determine ways to ensure sustainab...

Citrus scion breeding at the USDA/ARS U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory

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Citrus breeding has been conducted by the USDA since 1893 when Walter Swingle made the first crosses at the USDA Subtropical Laboratory in Eustis, Florida. The initial objectives included improved disease-resistance, cold hardiness, and easy peeling fruit, which are still important breeding objecti...

Regional services in a research context: USDA Climate Hubs in the USDA Agricultural Research Service

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Ten USDA Climate Hubs were created in 2014 to develop and deliver science-based, region-specific information and technologies to better enable agricultural decision-making and management. Of these ten Hubs, half are administered by USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), an agency with historica...

Glucose, stem dry weight variation, principal component and cluster analysis for some agronomic traits among 16 regenerated Crotalaria juncea accessions for potential cellulosic ethanol

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The United State Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service, (ARS), Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit’s (PGRCU) sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.) germlasm collection consists of 22 accessions. Sixteen (16) accessions of the most seed productive were selected. These access...

Registration of a male fertility restorer oilseed sunflower germplasm HA-R9 resistant to sunflower rust

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The sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) germplasm HA-R9 (Reg. No.xxx, PI 667595) was developed by the USDA-ARS, Sunflower and Plant Biology Research Unit in collaboration with the Agricultural Experiment Station of North Dakota State University and released in January, 2013. Sunflower rust (caused by P...

Procedures and best management practices for genetically engineered traits in USDA/ARS germplasm and breeding lines

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Two decades have passed since the commercialization in the U. S. of crops with genetically engineered (GE) traits. Today more than 80% of corn, soybean, canola, sugar beet and cotton acreage in the United States is planted to transgenic cultivars, but concerns exist regarding how best to manage the ...

Seed collection success and failure in fraxinus gene conservation efforts

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Joseph D. Zeleznik; Andrew J. David

2017-01-01

National seed collection and gene conservation programs have expanded in recent years, especially in response to pressure from non-native pests such as the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis). Since 2008, we have been working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) and USDA Forest Service (USDA FS) leading seed collection...

Biological and Cultural Control of Olive Fruit Fly in California---Utilization of Parasitoids from USDA-APHIS-PPQ, Guatemala and Cultural Control Methods

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The parasitoid Psytallia humilis = P. cf. concolor (Szépligeti) was reared on sterile Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), larvae at the USDA, APHIS, PPQ, Moscamed biological control laboratory in San Miguel Petapa, Guatemala and shipped to the USDA, ARS, Parlier, for biological ...

7 CFR 504.5 - Address.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... USER FEES § 504.5 Address. Deposits of and requests for microbial patent cultures should be directed to the Curator, ARS Patent Culture Collection, Northern Regional Research Center, USDA-ARS, 1815 N...

Antibiosis and tolerance discovered in USDA-ARS sorghums resistant to the sugarcane aphid Melanaphis sacchari (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

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The sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari, was discovered infesting grain sorghum near Beaumont, TX, close to the Texas and Louisiana state line a few miles inland from the Gulf coast in the late summer of 2013, and has been a perennial pest of sorghum through 2016. Our research was aimed at identif...

Sugarbeet Activities of the USDA-ARS East Lansing Conducted in Cooperation with Saginaw Valley Bean and Beet Farm during 2008

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Four evaluation plots were planted at the Michigan State University Saginaw Valley Bean and Beet Research Farm in 2008. Test 08BB01 was specifically designed to evaluate a number of non-traditional yield and physiological measures that had been suggested from earlier trials, in addition to the more ...

Biological and Cultural Control of Olive Fruit Fly in California---Utilization of Parasitoids from USDA-APHIS-PPQ, Guatemala

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The parasitoid Psytallia cf. concolor (Szépligeti) was reared on sterile Mediterranean fruit fly larvae at the USDA-APHIS-PPQ, Petapa Quarantine Laboratory in Guatemala and shipped to the USDA-ARS, Parlier, for wide-spread release and biological control of olive fruit fly in California. As many as 3...

Low Phosphorus Diet: Best for Kidney Disease?

MedlinePlus

... for Standard Reference, Release 27. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service. http://ndb.nal.usda.gov. Accessed ... in America, NHANES 2011-2012. U.S. Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/80400530/ ...

USDA dietary supplement ingredient database, release 2

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The Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL),Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center (BHNRC), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), USDA, in collaboration with the Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health (ODS/NIH) and other federal agencies has developed a Dietary Supplement Ingredient ...

Effects of winter manure application in Ohio on the quality of surface runoff.

PubMed

Owens, L B; Bonta, J V; Shipitalo, M J; Rogers, S

2011-01-01

Winter application of manure poses environmental risks. Seven continuous corn, instrumented watersheds (approximately 1 ha each) at the USDA-ARS North Appalachian Experimental Watershed research station near Coshocton, Ohio were used to evaluate the environmental impacts of winter manure application when using some of the Ohio Natural Resources Conservation Service recommendations. For 3 yr on frozen, sometimes snow-covered, ground in January or February, two watersheds received turkey litter, two received liquid swine manure, and three were control plots that received N fertilizer at planting (not manure). Manure was applied at an N rate for corn; the target level was 180 kg N ha(-1) with a 30-m setback from the application area to the bottom of each watershed. Four grassed plots (61 x 12 m) were used for beef slurry application (9.1 Mg ha(-1) wet weight); two plots had 61 x 12 m grassed filter areas below them, and two plots had 30 x 12 m filter areas. There were two control plots. Nutrient concentrations were sometimes high, especially in runoff soon after application. However, most events with high concentrations occurred with low flow volumes; therefore, transport was minimal. Applying manure at the N rate for crop needs resulted in excess application of P. Elevated P losses contributed to a greater potential of detrimental environmental impacts with P than with N. Filter strips reduced nutrient concentrations and transport, but the data were too limited to compare the effectiveness of the 30- and 61-m filter strips. Winter application of manure is not ideal, but by following prescribed guidelines, detrimental environmental impacts can be reduced.

76 FR 71583 - Notice of Availability of Finding of No Significant Impact for Field Release of Insects for...

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Shell Eggs from Farm to Table

MedlinePlus

... Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ( ... get this information to consumers. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) USDA also carries out food safety research through ...

Food and Nutrition Information Center

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... Nutrition Information Center Microgreen Study Shows Health Benefits •ARS scientists studied health benefits of red cabbage microgreens.• ... List USDA Food Composition Databases Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Food and Nutrition Research Briefs Interactive DRI for ...

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... OF AGRICULTURE USER FEES § 504.4 Exemptions from user fee charges. (a) USDA laboratories and ARS cooperators designated by the Curator of the ARS Patent Culture Collection are exempt from fee assessments. (b) The Curator of the ARS Patent Culture Collection is delegated the authority to approve and revoke...

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... OF AGRICULTURE USER FEES § 504.4 Exemptions from user fee charges. (a) USDA laboratories and ARS cooperators designated by the Curator of the ARS Patent Culture Collection are exempt from fee assessments. (b) The Curator of the ARS Patent Culture Collection is delegated the authority to approve and revoke...

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... OF AGRICULTURE USER FEES § 504.4 Exemptions from user fee charges. (a) USDA laboratories and ARS cooperators designated by the Curator of the ARS Patent Culture Collection are exempt from fee assessments. (b) The Curator of the ARS Patent Culture Collection is delegated the authority to approve and revoke...

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... OF AGRICULTURE USER FEES § 504.4 Exemptions from user fee charges. (a) USDA laboratories and ARS cooperators designated by the Curator of the ARS Patent Culture Collection are exempt from fee assessments. (b) The Curator of the ARS Patent Culture Collection is delegated the authority to approve and revoke...

Science from the field to your shopping cart

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Today the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the in-house research division of USDA, has 2,100 scientists and 6,000 support personnel in over 90 locations throughout the US. The research done by ARS affects everyone in the country every day of the year. ARS research has gone into practically every...

Introduction to HACCP.

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Introduction to HACCP Deana R. Jones, Ph.D. Egg Safety and Quality Research Unit USDA-Agricultural Research Service Russell Research Center Athens, GA Deana.Jones@ars.usda.gov HACCP is an acronym for Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point and was initially developed by the Pillsbury Company a...

Advances in breeding at USDA

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Genetic research of the sunflower research unit, USDA-ARS, in Fargo, ND, was discussed in a presentation to a group of producers, industry representatives, and scientists. The need for sunflower genetic research is ever increasing with more insect and disease problems nationwide. Preliminary data on...

Food Crystalization and Eggs

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Food Crystalization and Eggs Deana R. Jones, Ph.D. USDA Agricultural Research Service Egg Safety and Quality Research Unit Athens, Georgia, USA Deana.Jones@ars.usda.gov Sugar, salt, lactose, tartaric acid and ice are examples of constituents than can crystallize in foods. Crystallization in a foo...

USDA, ARS Soft Wheat Quality Laboratory, Annual Report 2011

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The report describes new activities for the lab including the a transitions in the laboratory and activites on the USDA, NIFA-funded Triticeae CAP project. Recent research on milling and quality evaluations, data management, molecular evaluations, stem rust resistance from the lab are highlighted, ...

Cryopreserved storage of clonal germplasm in the USDA National Plant Germplasm System

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) plant collections are a critical source of genetic diversity for breeding and selection of improved crops, including vegetatively propagated plants. Information on these collections is...

Importance of tarnished plant bug as a USDA ARS research priority

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Environmental and economic management of tarnished plant bug (TPB) (Lygus lineolaris) on cotton has been an area of continuous study by USDA scientists in Stoneville, Mississippi since the 1960s. Maintaining economically viable cotton production has required dynamic research information and increas...

7 CFR 510.2 - Public inspection, copying, and indexing.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

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.... Members of the public may request access to such materials maintained by ARS at the following office: Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Room 1-2248, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705... 4:30 p.m. Information maintained in our electronic reading room can be accessed at http://www.ars...

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.... Members of the public may request access to such materials maintained by ARS at the following office: Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Room 1-2248, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705... 4:30 p.m. Information maintained in our electronic reading room can be accessed at http://www.ars...

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.... Members of the public may request access to such materials maintained by ARS at the following office: Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Room 1-2248, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705... 4:30 p.m. Information maintained in our electronic reading room can be accessed at http://www.ars...

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2014-01-01

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...: Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Room 1-2248, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705... 4:30 p.m. Information maintained in our electronic reading room can be accessed at http://www.ars...

7 CFR 3701.2 - Public inspection, copying, and indexing.

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...: Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Room 1-2248, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705... 4:30 p.m. Information maintained in our electronic reading room can be accessed at http://www.ars...

7 CFR 3601.2 - Public inspection, copying, and indexing.

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...: Information Staff, ARS, REE, USDA, Room 1-2248, Mail Stop 5128, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705... 4:30 p.m. Information maintained in our electronic reading room can be accessed at http://www.ars...

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History and Accomplishments of USDA-ARS Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-Agricultural Research Service Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory (ADOL) in East Lansing, Michigan, formerly known as Regional Poultry Research Laboratory, was dedicated on August 8, 1939. Its establishment was the result of joint efforts by the Agricultural Experiment Stations of the Nor...

USDA Research in Support of Deployed Military Troops

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The US Department of Agriculture has a long history of collaborating with the US military to conduct research in support of war efforts. The predecessor laboratory of the current USDA-ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology (CMAVE) located in Gainesville, Florida has a history...

Validation of the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission using USDA-ARS experimental watersheds

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The calibration and validation program of the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission (SMAP) relies upon an international cooperative of in situ networks to provide ground truth references across a variety of landscapes. The USDA Agricultural Research Service operates several experimental watersheds wh...

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Rearing and Release of Megamelus scutellaris Berg (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) for Biological Control of Water hyacinth in 2015

DTIC Science & Technology

2017-06-01

Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Invasive Plant Research Lab (IPRL) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where it was...State University (LSU), Agriculture Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. These insects were maintained and used in 2015 for field releases and greenhouse...Group for the Biological and Integrated Control of Water Hyacinth. Beijing, China, 9-12 December 2000. Australian Centre for International Agricultural

USDA Memorandum of Understanding Signing

NASA Image and Video Library

2008-07-22

U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas looks on as Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer, left, shakes hands with NASA Administrator Michael Griffin after signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between NASA and USDA Wednesday, July 23, 2008, at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington. The MOU will enable the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to conduct plant and animal related research on the International Space Station (ISS). Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Introduction to the USDA-Agricultural Research Service Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory Special Rangelands Issue

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-ARS Poisonous Plant Research Labortory (PPRL) in Logan, UT will sponsor an edition of the magazine Rangelands. This paper provides a brief history and overview of the PPRL, mission statement, research objectives by CRIS, and the disciplines involved in the research....

High-impact animal health research conducted at the USDA's National Animal Disease Center

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Commissioned by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1958 and opened with a dedication ceremony in December 1961, the USDA, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Animal Disease Center (NADC) celebrated its 50-year anniversary in November 2011. Over these 50 years, the NADC established itself amon...

'Recovery', a new western wheatgrass cultivar with improved seedling establishment on rangelands

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

'Recovery' western wheatgrass (Pascopyrum smithii [Rydb.] A. Love) (Reg. No. CV-_____, PI ______) was released in December 2009 by the USDA-ARS, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Engineer Research and Development Center, and the USDA-NRCS. Recovery was developed for reseedling rangelands following s...

USDA Agricultural Research Service creates Nutrient Uptake and Outcome Network (NUOnet)

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

One of the national goals of USDA-ARS is to conduct research that develops new practices and methods to increase agricultural production and quality with sustainable systems that have a lower environmental impact. When completed, the new NUOnet database system will be able to help in the establishme...

Genetic diversity among wheat accessions from the USDA National Small Grains Collection

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Accessions of Triticum aestivum subsp. aestivum from the USDA-ARS National Small Grains Collection (NSGC) are a resource for wheat scientists worldwide. The genetic diversity of the wheat core subset, representing approximately 10% of the collection’s 42138 T. aestivum accessions, was examined using...

Integrated grassland observation sites and integrated cropland observation sites at El Reno, Oklahoma

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

With the financial support from the National Science Foundation and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a team of researchers from the University of Oklahoma and the USDA ARS Grazinglands Research Laboratory have worked together and established two Integrated Grassland Observation s...

Program review of the USDA Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology (CMAVE) has a history that starts in 1932 in Orlando to develop methods to control mosquitoes, including malaria vectors under conditions simulating those of the south Pacific jungles, and other insects affecting man and animals...

Regional services in a research context: USDA climate hubs in the agricultural research service

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Ten USDA Climate Hubs were created in 2014 to develop and deliver science-based, region-specific information and technologies to better enable agricultural decision-making and management. Of these ten Hubs, half are administered by USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), an agency with historica...

USDA Human Nutrition Center, 1978-1982, and coordination of human nutrition research agencies.

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Combs, Gerald F

2009-01-01

Survey findings, confirming widespread malnutrition, led to the 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health and increased funding of related Federal programs. In 1976, the ARS Administrator proposed to Congress a greatly expanded program for human nutrition research. This led to the development of USDA Human Nutrition Research Centers at Universities. Funding of these Centers resulted mainly from efforts of scientists and others from the states where Centers were located. USDA formed the Science and Education Administration (SEA) by merging several related research and education agencies, expecting to improve coordination and focus. Human nutrition research activities were placed in SEA under a USDA Human Nutrition Center in 1978, which was terminated in 1982 when SEA was disbanded. Coordination of human nutrition research within USDA and with other federal agencies required specific mechanisms. Within USDA, a subcommittee met regularly to exchange information and generate policy recommendations. Quarterly meetings of USDA Human Nutrition Center directors were held to enhance information exchange and cooperation. A Human Nutrition Board of Scientific Counselors was established to advise the Secretary regarding program direction and priorities. Human nutrition at the federal level was coordinated through the Interagency Committee on Human Nutrition Research (ICHNR). ICHNR devised a computerized database of ongoing federal food and nutrition research, developed a comprehensive 5-y research plan, and held biennial conferences for scientific presentations. Most important were the several interagency committees, which worked together to ensure that all federal agencies spoke with 1 voice. These committees functioned most effectively.

Getting down the road (but not over the hill)

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If success = job satisfaction, then I can personally say that my career with the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has been highly successful. This talk outlines the career options for scientists in ARS and how satisfactory that work is....

ARS labs update to California Cotton Ginners and Growers

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

There are four USDA-ARS labs involved in cotton harvesting, processing & fiber quality research; The Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory (Mesilla Park, NM); The Cotton Production and Processing Unit (Lubbock, TX); The Cotton Ginning Research Unit (Stoneville, MS); and The Cotton Structur...

Cholesterol and vitamin D content of eggs in the U.S. retail market

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Nationwide sampling in the U.S. of whole large eggs, to update values in the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR) (http://www.ars.usda.gov/nutrientdata), was conducted in 2000-2001 and again in 2010. Retail cartons of large eggs were obtained from 12 supermarket locations usi...

New citrus rootstocks released by USDA 2001-2010: field performance and nursery characteristics

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Four new citrus rootstocks developed by USDA, ARS and released between 2001 and 2010 have gained considerable commercial popularity in Florida and have been used for propagation of more than 2 million trees over the last two years. Trends in commercial use of these rootstocks are discussed. Results ...

Performance of Psyttalia humilis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) reared from irradiated host on olive fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) in California

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The parasitoid Psytallia humilis (Silvestri) was reared on Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), larvae irradiated at different doses from 0-70 Gy at the USDA, APHIS, PPQ, Moscamed biological control laboratory in San Miguel Petapa, Guatemala and shipped to the USDA, ARS, Parlier,...

2008 Field Releases of Psyttalia cf. concolor for Biological Control of Olive Fruit Fly in California

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The parasitoid Psytallia cf. concolor (Szépligeti) was reared on sterile Mediterranean fruit fly larvae at the USDA-APHIS-PPQ, Petapa Quarantine Laboratory in Guatemala and shipped to the USDA-ARS, Parlier for biological control of olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Gmelin), in California. Improved ...

Breeding citrus for HLB resistance at the USDA/ARS U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory, Ft. Pierce, Florida

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Citrus breeding has been conducted by the USDA since 1893. The initial objectives included improved disease-resistance, cold hardiness, and easy peeling fruit, which are still important breeding objectives today. The emergence of huanglongbing (HLB) in the US has propelled the development of HLB r...

Applications of UAV imagery for agricultural and environmental research at the USDA Southeast Watershed Research Lab

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The ARS is the USDA's in-house scientific research agency, whose mission is to conduct research to "develop and transfer solutions to agricultural problems of high national priority..." This includes enhancing the natural resource base and the environment, a dimension of particular relevance to the ...

Owyhee Russet: A variety with high yields of U.S. no. 1 tubers, excellent processing quality, and moderate resistance to Fusarium dry rot (Fusarium solani var. coeruleum)

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Owyhee Russet (AO96160-3) originated from a cross between A89384-10 and A89512-3 in 1996. Owyhee Russet was released in 2009 by Oregon State University, in cooperation with the USDA-ARS and the Agricultural Experiment Stations of Idaho and Washington and is a product of the Northwest Potato Variety ...

Antibothrus morimotoi Sasaji, an Old World cocoon-forming beetle (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea: Bothrideridae) newly established in North America.

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Mcelrath, Thomas C; Androw, Robert A; Mchugh, Joseph V

2016-08-22

Antibothrus morimotoi Sasaji, a cocoon-forming beetle (Coccinelloidea: Bothrideridae) native to the Palearctic region, is newly reported from North America. In 2013 and 2015, several series of specimens were collected during an ongoing USDA/APHIS/PPQ exotic bark beetle survey in Franklin County, Ohio, U.S.A. This is the first confirmed record of the species and genus in the New World. The capture of these specimens suggests that the beetle is established in the greater Columbus, Ohio, metropolitan  area.

Phenotypic Characterization of a Diversity Panel of Tomato

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

At the USDA, ARS Plant Genetic Resources Unit (PGRU) we have phenotypically characterized more than 2,000 accessions of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) for which data are publically available on the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) (http://www.ar...

Melon Trait and Germplasm Resources Survey 2011

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Cucurbit Crop Germplasm Committee (CCGC), which operates under the auspices of the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS), is composed of ARS, university and industry scientists, and provides guidance to NPGS on matters relating to cucurbit crop and wild related species. The CCGC is res...

77 FR 46681 - Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture; Notice of Meeting

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... Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250; Telephone (202) 720-3817; Fax (202) 690-4265; Email [email protected]ars...-4074 or by Email at [email protected]ars.usda.gov at least 5 days prior to the meeting. Please provide...

Dioxin, furan, PCB, and PBDE levels in U.S. foods: Survey trends and consumer exposure

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) and Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) have conducted statistical surveys for dioxins (PCDDs, PCDFs, and PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers every 5 years since the mid-1990s (mid-1990s, 2002-3, 2007-8). I...

Genetic conservation, characterization and utilization of wild relatives of fruit and nut crops at the USDA Germplasm Repository in Davis, California

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The National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR) in Davis is one among the nine repositories in the National Plant Germplasm System, USDA-ARS that is responsible for conservation of clonally propagated woody perennial subtropical and temperate fruit and nut crop germplasm. Currently the repository ho...

Field Performance and Fitness of an Olive Fruit Fly Parasitoid, Psyttalia humilis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) mass reared on irradiated Medfly

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Adult Psytallia cf. concolor (Szépligeti) (230,908) were produced from sterile Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), larvae at the USDA-APHIS-PPQ, San Miguel Petapa, Guatemala and shipped from September 2008 to January 2009 to the USDA-ARS, SJVASC, Parlier for biological control ...

ADDING GLOBAL SOILS DATA TO THE AUTOMATED GEOSPATIAL WATERSHED ASSESSMENT TOOL (AGWA)

EPA Science Inventory

The Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment Tool (AGWA) is a GIS-based hydrologic modeling tool that is available as an extension for ArcView 3.x from the USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center (www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/agwa). AGWA is designed to facilitate the assessment of...

Presence of Russian honey bee genotypes in swarms in Louisiana.

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Swarm traps were placed in an area around USDA, ARS apiaries near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which had contained ARS Russian and other honey bees for several years. Eighty swarms were sampled and analyzed for their genotype (Russian, hybrid or non-Russian) and mite infestation percentages. Ten swarms...

Rice diversity panels available through the genetic stocks oryza collection

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Genetic Stocks Oryza (GSOR) Collection was established in 2004 at the USDA-ARS, Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center (DBNRRC) located in Stuttgart, AR. The mission of GSOR is to provide unique genetic resources to the rice research community for genetic and genomics related research. GSOR ...

Conservation of beneficial species and pest management

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

USDA, ARS scientists and staff at the satellite laboratory of CMAVE in Tallahassee, FL co-organized a vegetable field day with Florida A&M University (FAMU) faculty, staff and extension agents. The field days were held at the ARS and FAMU-Center for Viticulture and small fruit Research Integrated Pe...

CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON INFECTIOUS DISEASE AGENTS IN SEWAGE SLUDGE AND MANURE

EPA Science Inventory

The USEPA and the USDA convened a three-day Workshop on Emerging Infectious Disease Agents and Issues Associated with Sewage Sludge, Animal Manures, and Other Organic By-Products on June 4-6, 2001 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The purpose of the workshop was to review and discuss the effe...

Genomic characterization of a core set of the USDA-NPGS Ethiopian sorghum germplasm collection: implications for germplasm conservation, evaluation, and utilization in crop improvement

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) preserves the largest sorghum germplasm collection in the world and includes 7,217 accessions from the center of diversity located in Ethiopia. This exotic germplasm has not been characterized on a genome-wide basis to better inform its conservati...

Advanced Manufacturing and Value-added Products from US Agriculture

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Villet, Ruxton H.; Child, Dennis R.; Acock, Basil

1992-01-01

An objective of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agriculture Research Service (ARS) is to develop technology leading to a broad portfolio of value-added marketable products. Modern scientific disciplines such as chemical engineering are brought into play to develop processes for converting bulk commodities into high-margin products. To accomplish this, the extremely sophisticated processing devices which form the basis of modern biotechnology, namely, genes and enzymes, can be tailored to perform the required functions. The USDA/ARS is a leader in the development of intelligent processing equipment (IPE) for agriculture in the broadest sense. Applications of IPE are found in the production, processing, grading, and marketing aspects of agriculture. Various biotechnology applications of IPE are discussed.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Beef Cattle Production in the Southern Great Plains

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Kannan, N.; Niraula, R.; Saleh, A.; Osei, E.; Cole, A.; Todd, R.; Waldrip, H.; Aljoe, H.

2017-12-01

A five-year USDA-funded study titled "Resilience and vulnerability of beef cattle production in the Southern Great Plains under changing climate, land use, and markets" was initiated as a multi-institutional collaboration involving Texas Institute for Applied Environmental Research (TIAER)—Tarleton State University, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)—Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in El Reno, Oklahoma, USDA—ARS in Bushland, Texas, Kansas State University, Oklahoma State University, University of Oklahoma, and the Noble Research Institute in Ardmore, Oklahoma. The project goal is to safeguard and promote regional beef production while mitigating its environmental footprint. Conducting a full Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) is one of the major objectives of the study, in addition to field experiments, extension, outreach, and education. Estimation of all the resource use and greenhouse gas emissions are parts of the LCA. A computer model titled Animal Production Life Cycle Analysis Tool (APLCAT) is developed and applied to conduct the LCA on beef cattle production in the study region. The model estimates water use, energy requirements, and emissions of enteric methane, manure methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide. Also included in the LCA analysis are land-atmospheric exchanges of methane, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and the global warming potential. Our study is focused on the cow-calf and stocker phases of beef cattle production. The animal production system in the study region is predominantly forage based with protein and energy supplements when needed. Spring calving typical to the study region. In the cow-calf phase animals typically graze native prairie although introduced pasture grazing is also prevalent. Stockers use winter pasture as the major feed. The results of greenhouse gas emissions summarized per kg of hot carcass weight or animal fed will be presented.

A history of the Fish Farming Experimental Laboratory in Stuttgart, Arkansas and the transfer to the USDA/ARS Harry K. Dupree - Stuttgart National Aquaculture Research Center

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

In 1958, Congress enacted the Fish Rice Rotation Act that directed the Secretary of the Interior (in cooperation with USDA) to develop a program to solve problems related to production and harvest of warmwater fish. The idea was to establish a program to grow fish on flooded rice acreage in rotatio...

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service research on pest biology: weeds.

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Forcella, Frank

2003-01-01

Over 125 permanent full-time scientists conduct research within the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) on issues related to weeds. The research emphasis of most of these scientists involves ecology and management or biological control of weeds. Many scientists perform research on weed biology as components of their primary projects on weed control and integrated crop and soil management. Describing all ARS projects involved with weed biology is impossible, and consequently only research that falls within the following arbitrarily chosen topics is highlighted in this article: dormancy mechanisms; cell division; diversity of rangeland weeds; soil resources and rangeland weeds; poisonous rangeland plants; horticultural weeds; weed traits limiting chemical control; aquatic and semi-aquatic weeds; weed/transgenic wheat hybrids; seedbanks, seedling emergence and seedling populations; and weed seed production. Within these topics, and others not highlighted, the desire of ARS is that good information on weed biology currently translates or eventually will translate into practical advice for those who must manage weeds.

Agricultural Research Service: biodefense research.

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Gay, C G

2013-01-01

The National Animal Health Program at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), includes research programs dedicated to the defense of animal agriculture against the treat of biological agents with the potential of significant economic harm and/or public health consequences. This article provides a summary of the program and identifies its relevance to national initiatives to protect livestock and poultry as well as global food security. An introduction to setting research priorities and a selection of research accomplishments that define the scope of the biodefense research program is provided.

Forest service access to and use of the Germplasm Information Network (GRIN-Global) database and security backup at the National Laboratory for Genetic Resource Preservation

Treesearch

B. Loth; R.P. Karrfalt

2017-01-01

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (USDA FS) National Seed Laboratory (NSL) began long term seed storage for genetic conservation, in 2005, for USDA FS units and cooperators. This program requires secure storage of both seeds and the data documenting the identification of the seeds. The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has provided both of these...

78 FR 27853 - Asian Longhorned Beetle; Quarantined Areas in Ohio

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Building a comprehensive collection of ash germplasm

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Mark P. Widrlechner

2010-01-01

The U.S. National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) has conserved seed collections of ash (Fraxinus) germplasm at the USDA-ARS North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station (NCRPIS) in Ames, IA, since the 1970s.

USDA snack food and beverage standards: how big of a stretch for the states?

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Chriqui, Jamie F; Piekarz, Elizabeth; Chaloupka, Frank J

2014-06-01

The USDA snack food and beverage standards take effect in school year (SY) 2014-2015. Although the USDA standards will provide nationwide requirements, concerns exist about compliance. This study examined whether existing state laws are aligned with the USDA standards to determine whether some states may be better positioned to facilitate compliance. Codified state statutory and regulatory laws effective for SY 2012-2013 for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia were identified through Boolean keyword searches using the Westlaw and LexisNexis databases. Laws were analyzed for alignment with 18 snack food and beverage provisions contained within the USDA standards. Thirty-eight states had snack food and beverage standards; 33 states' laws exceeded restrictions on foods of minimal nutritional value. Of the 33 states, no states' laws fully met the USDA's standards, 16 states' laws fully met and 10 states' laws partially met at least one USDA provision, and seven states' laws met no USDA provisions. One state's law met 9 of 18 provisions. On average, states met 4 of 18 provisions. States were more likely to meet individual USDA beverage than snack provisions. Implementation and compliance with the USDA standards may be facilitated in states with laws already containing provisions aligned with the USDA standards and may be more difficult in states with fewer or no provisions in alignment, suggesting possible geographic areas for the USDA to target with technical assistance and training efforts and for advocates to work in to facilitate compliance.

Corn rootworm areawide management program: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service.

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Chandler, Laurence D

2003-01-01

The corn rootworm areawide management program was implemented by USDA-ARS in 1995 at five locations across the USA. This program is based on the use of a semiochemical insecticide bait applied to maize (Zea mays L) during peak adult corn rootworm activity. Managing adult rootworms minimizes the number of eggs laid, resulting in fewer larvae available to economically damage maize roots in the following growing season. To date, rootworm populations have been significantly reduced at all participating locations and new bait products have been developed and evaluated for use in rootworm-infested areas.

75 FR 29310 - Opportunity for Designation in the Columbus, OH; Dallas, TX; and Decatur, IN Areas; Request for...

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Resource Assessment and Tools

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Various resource assessment strategies and tools are needed to ensure bioenergy feedstock materials are produced, harvested, and transported in a sustainable manner. This presentation highlights research accomplishments by the USDA-ARS Renewable Energy Assessment Project (REAP) team along with our u...

Research is our middle name

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

This article highlights research by the USDA-ARS Greenhouse Production Research Group (GPRG). It provides an overview of the current research projects of the Application Technology Research Unit being conducted by the Agricultural Engineering Research Group, the Horticultural Insects Research Group...

Agricultural Conservation Planning Toolbox User's Manual

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF) comprises an approach for applying concepts of precision conservation to watershed planning in agricultural landscapes. To enable application of this approach, USDA/ARS has developed a set of Geographic Information System (GIS) based software tools...

Advancements in Cotton Harvesting Research

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Cotton harvesting research within USDA ARS is focused on improving harvest productivity, cotton quality, and producer profitability. In recent years, our work has encompassed efforts to improve both spindle picker and brush-roll stripper harvesting systems. Specifically, work with cotton pickers i...

Soil Moisture Estimation Using Hyperspectral SWIR Imagery

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Lewis, D.

2007-12-01

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is engaged with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of Georgia's National Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture Laboratory (NESPAL) both in Tifton, Georgia, USA, to develop transformations for medium and high resolution remotely sensed images to generate moisture indicators for soil. The Institute for Technology Development (ITD) is located at the Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi and has developed hyperspectral sensor systems that, when mounted in aircraft, collect electromagnetic reflectance data of the terrain. The sensor suite consists of sensors for three different sections of the electromagnetic spectrum; the Ultra-Violet (UV), Visible/Near InfraRed (VNIR) and Short Wave InfraRed (SWIR). The USDA/ ARS' Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory has probes that measure and record soil moisture. Data taken from the ITD SWIR sensor and the USDA/ARS soil moisture meters were analyzed to study the informatics relationships between SWIR data and measured soil moisture. The geographic locations of 29 soil moisture meters provided by the USDA/ARS are in the vicinity of Tifton, Georgia. Using USGS Digital Ortho Quads (DOQ), flightlines were drawn over the 29 soil moisture meters. The SWIR sensor was installed into an aircraft. The coordinates for the flightlines were also loaded into the navigational system of the aircraft. This airborne platform was used to collect the data over these flightlines. In order to prepare the data set for analysis, standard preprocessing was performed. These standard processes included sensor calibration, spectral subsetting, and atmospheric calibration. All 60 bands of the SWIR data were collected for each line in the image data, 15 bands of which were stripped from the data set leaving 45 bands of information in the wavelength range of 906 to 1705 nanometers. All the image files were calibrated using the regression equations generated by using radiometer data collected over calibration tarps. Regions of Interest (ROI) were drawn over the image data set corresponding with the location of the soil moisture meters. Scripts written in ENVI's Interactive Data Language (IDL) were developed to extract the spectra from each of the processed hyperspectral image data over each soil moisture meter from its corresponding ROI. The informatics relationship between soil moisture and SWIR spectra was identified by using the resulting data set.

Southwest Watershed Research Center Data Access Project

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Nichols, M. H.; Anson, E.

2008-05-01

Hydrologic data, including rainfall and runoff data, have been collected on experimental watersheds operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) in southern Arizona since the 1950s. These data are of national and international importance and make up one of the most comprehensive semiarid watershed data sets in the world. The USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center has recently developed an electronic data processing system that includes an online interface (http://tucson.ars.ag.gov/dap) to provide public access to the data. The goal of the system is to promote analyses and interpretations of historic and current data by improving data access. Data are collected from sensors in the field and are transmitted to computers in the office. The data are then processed, quality checked, and made available to users via the Internet. The publicly accessible part of the system consists of an interactive Web site, which provides an interface to the data, and a relational database, which is used to process, store, and manage data. The system was released to the public in October 2003, and since that time the online data access Web site has received more than 4500 visitors.

The Effect of a Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor (AR-42) on Canine Prostate Cancer Growth and Metastasis.

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Elshafae, Said M; Kohart, Nicole A; Altstadt, Lucas A; Dirksen, Wessel P; Rosol, Thomas J

2017-05-01

Canine prostate cancer (PCa) is an excellent preclinical model for human PCa. AR-42 is a histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) developed at The Ohio State University that inhibits the proliferation of several cancers, including multiple myeloma, lung, and hepatocellular cancer. In this study, we investigated whether AR-42 would prevent or decrease. The growth and metastasis of a canine PCa (Ace-1 cells) to bone in vitro and in vivo. Proliferation, cell viability, invasion, and metastasis of a canine prostate cancer cell line (Ace-1) were measured following treatment with AR-42. Expression of anoikis resistance, epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), and stem cell-related markers were also evaluated. To assess the efficacy of AR-42 on prevention of PCa metastasis to bone, Ace-1 cells were injected in the left cardiac ventricle of nude mice, mice were treated with AR-42, and the incidence and growth of bone metastasis were measured. Bioluminescence was performed to monitor the bone metastases in nude mice. AR-42 inhibited the in vitro proliferation of Ace-1 cells in a time- and dose-dependent manner. The IC 50 concentration of AR-42 for Ace-1 cells was 0.42 μM after 24 hr of treatment. AR-42 induced apoptosis, decreased cell migration, and increased the stem cell properties of Ace-1 cells in vitro. AR-42 downregulated E-cadherin, N-cadherin, TWIST, MYOF, anoikis resistance, and osteomimicry genes, while it upregulated SNAIL, PTEN, FAK, and ZEB1 gene expression in Ace-1 cells. Importantly, AR-42 decreased the bioluminescence and incidence of bone metastasis in nude mice. In addition, AR-42 induced apoptosis and altered the tumor cell morphology to an irregular cell phenotype with condensed chromatin in the bone metastases. AR-42 decreased PCa growth and bone metastasis, induced apoptosis, and downregulated osteomimicry genes in PCa cells in the bone microenvironment. Prostate 77:776-793, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Resources for blueberry growers

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Local extension agents and USDA-ARS research scientists are excellent resources for various aspects of blueberry production, but several print and web-based resources are also available to help commercial blueberry growers. Growers are encouraged to consider the source for all web-based information....

USDA-ARS perspective on PAM

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Polyacrylamide (PAM) described herein is a synthetic organic polymer used globally by a number of important industries. It also has a number of valuable applications in irrigated agriculture, including its use in furrow irrigation to control erosion and sediment loss in runoff, manage infiltration,...

Notice of release of 'Bannock II' thickspike wheatgrass

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) announces the cultivar release of 'Bannock II' thickspike wheatgrass [Elymus lanceolatus (Scribn. & J.G. Sm.) Gould]. 'Bannock II', a five clone synthetic, is the result of hybridization among selected genotypes from thickspike wheatgrass cultivars 'Bann...

Transferring research data to producers

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A column will be written for Cow Country News, a monthly newspaper published by the Kentucky Cattlemen Association. The column will present research findings and technologies generated by collaborative research between the USDA-ARS Forage-Animal Production Research Unit and the University of Kentuc...

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R2 Water Quality Portal Monitoring Stations

EPA Pesticide Factsheets

The Water Quality Data Portal (WQP) provides an easy way to access data stored in various large water quality databases. The WQP provides various input parameters on the form including location, site, sampling, and date parameters to filter and customize the returned results. The The Water Quality Portal (WQP) is a cooperative service sponsored by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC) that integrates publicly available water quality data from the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS) the EPA STOrage and RETrieval (STORET) Data Warehouse, and the USDA ARS Sustaining The Earth??s Watersheds - Agricultural Research Database System (STEWARDS).

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service research programs in biological control of plant diseases.

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Roberts, Daniel P; Lohrke, Scott M

2003-01-01

A number of USDA-ARS programs directed at overcoming impediments to the use of biocontrol agents on a commercial scale are described. These include improvements in screening techniques, taxonomic studies to identify beneficial strains more precisely, and studies on various aspects of the large-scale production of biocontrol agents. Another broad area of studies covers the ecological aspects of biocontrol agents-their interaction with the pathogen, with the plant and with other aspects of the environmental complex. Examples of these studies are given and their relevance to the further development and expansion of biocontrol agents is discussed.

Recovery Plan for Laurel Wilt of Avocado

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Laurel wilt kills American members of the Lauraceae plant family, including avocado (Persea americana). The disease threatens commercial avocado production in Florida, as well as the National Germplasm Repository for avocado in Miami (USDA-ARS). Elsewhere in the US, major (California) and minor comm...

Mycotoxin Management Studies by USDA-ARS, NCAUR in 2009

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Studies again included several popcorn fields in 2009 in order to continue gathering data for modification of the previously developed management strategies for mycotoxins in field corn (including the mycotoxin predictive computer program). Without an attempt for optimization, the field corn model ...

Release of "Bella" white bean cultivar

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"Bella" Reg. No. GP-___, PI ______) is a multiple disease resistant white bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) cultivar, adapted to the humid tropics that was developed and released cooperatively by the University of Puerto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station and the USDA-ARS. The breeding objective was to...

USDA ARS research on the screwworm fly

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Screwworm myiasis is devastating to warm blooded animals. Eradication of the screwworm from mainland North America using the sterile insect technique is an unprecedented achievement; reinvasion is prevented by maintenance of a barrier at the Panama – Colombia border. Here we update research progress...

Sweetie Pie Thornless Blackberry

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‘Sweetie Pie’ is a new thornless blackberry (Rubus L. subg. Watson) cultivar developed and released by the USDA-ARS Thad Cochran Southern Horticultural Laboratory. ‘Sweetie Pie’ is a vigorous, semi-erect blackberry that produces moderate yields of sweet high quality fruit having excellent flavor, ...

Broadening the U.S. alfalfa germplasm base

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Over 4000 alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) plant introductions (PIs) exist in the USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS). NAAIC has discussed/proposed pre-breeding efforts to utilize this germplasm for creating pre-commercial alfalfa germplasm. Funding constraints have been one impediment to th...

Evaluation and characterization of a genetically diverse Musa germplasm core subset.

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The USDA-ARS, Tropical Agriculture Research Station is responsible for curating germplasm of several regionally and internationally important agricultural crops. Evaluation and characterization of Musa (bananas) genetic resources are an important component of programmed research. In a global coll...

‘Flavorfest’ strawberry

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‘Flavorfest’, a “June-bearing” or “short-day” strawberry (Fragaria ananassa Duch. ex Rozier) cultivar, was introduced for propagation to nurseries 5 December 2012 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS). ‘Flavorfest’ was selected for its high yield of flavorf...

Advances in developing alternative treatments for postharvest pest control

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USDA-ARS made two significant advances in the last 10 years in the development of alternative treatments for postharvest pest control: oxygenated phosphine fumigation and nitric oxide fumigation. Oxygenated phosphine is phosphine fumigation in an oxygen enriched atmosphere. It is significantly more...

Has your greenhouse gone virtual?

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Virtual Grower is a free decision-support software program available from USDA-ARS that allows growers to build a virtual greenhouse. It was initially designed to help greenhouse growers estimate heating costs and conduct simple simulations to figure out where heat savings could be achieved. Featu...

VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION OF THE SAN PEDRO RIPARIAN CORRIDOR

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This data set is a vegetation classification of the San Pedro riparian corridor. The classification was accomplished using a combination of Thematic Mapper Simulator (TMS) imagery from JPL, and high resolution color infrared photography (CIR)from USDA ARS Weslaco Tx, supported by...

IMPACTS OF URBANIZATION ON WATERSHED HYDROLOGIC FUNCTION

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Although urbanization has a major impact on watershed hydrology, there have not been studies to quantify basic hydrological relationships that are altered by the addition of impervious surfaces. The USDA-ARS and USEPA-ORD-NRMRL have initiated a pilot program to study the impacts...

Updating the USDA ARS rotary wing nozzle models

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Optimizing aerial spray applications requires proper setup of the sprayer system, particularly with respect to nozzle selection and operation, which significantly affects spray deposition, product efficacy, and spray drift. Droplet size from an aerial application is a function of the combination of...

Innovation - A view from the Lab

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The USDA Ag Lab in Peoria helps bridge the gap between agricultural producers and commercial manufacturers. In 2015, the Ag Lab, officially known as the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR), is celebrating 75 years of research in Peoria. T...

Axiom turkey genotyping array

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Axiom®Turkey Genotyping Array interrogates 643,845 probesets on the array, covering 643,845 SNPs. The array development was led by Dr. Julie Long of the USDA-ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center under a public-private partnership with Hendrix Genetics, Aviagen, and Affymetrix. The Turk...

Spatial Modeling for Resources Framework (SMRF)

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Spatial Modeling for Resources Framework (SMRF) was developed by Dr. Scott Havens at the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Boise, ID. SMRF was designed to increase the flexibility of taking measured weather data and distributing the point measurements across a watershed. SMRF was developed...

USDA,ARS areawide project-Anaoerobic soil disinfestation

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Anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD) is an effective method for control of soilborne pathogens, nematodes, and many weed species. In the absence of pest pressure, ASD provides increased yields of multiple crop species. Utilization of ASD requires the application of organic amendments, such as compos...

USDA-ARS update

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Potato research at the Red River Valley Agricultural Research Center is conducted by the Sugarbeet & Potato Research Unit at two locations: the Northern Crop Science Laboratory in Fargo, ND and the Potato Research Worksite located in East Grand Forks, MN. Research in Fargo is laboratory oriented an...

Conservation seeding and diverse seed species performance

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The rehabilitation of degraded big sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) communities infested with cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and other competitive weeds is a daunting task facing resource managers and land owners. In an effort to improve wildlife and livestock forage on degraded rangelands, the USDA-ARS-Gr...

Celebrating 75 years of research

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The USDA Ag Lab in Peoria helps bridge the gap between agricultural producers and commercial manufacturers. In 2015, the Ag Lab, officially known as the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR), is celebrating 75 years of research in Peoria. T...

Clover Biotechnology Research at FAPRU

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Randy Dinkins (USDA-ARS-FAPRU) is conducting research to determine the utility of using the Medicago Affymetrix Genechip for use with red clover (Trifolium pretense). The Medicago Affymetrix Genechip contains approximately 51,000 probe sets that are derived from Medicago truncatula, 1,800 from Medi...

ARS irrigation research priorities and projects-An update

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The USDA Agricultural Research Service focuses on six areas of research that are crucial to safe and effective use of all water resources for agricultural production: 1) Irrigation Scheduling Technologies for Water Productivity; 2) Water Productivity (WP) at Multiple Scales; 3) Irrigation Applicatio...

Introducing the GRACEnet/REAP Data Contribution, Discovery, and Retrieval System.

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Del Grosso, S J; White, J W; Wilson, G; Vandenberg, B; Karlen, D L; Follett, R F; Johnson, J M F; Franzluebbers, A J; Archer, D W; Gollany, H T; Liebig, M A; Ascough, J; Reyes-Fox, M; Pellack, L; Starr, J; Barbour, N; Polumsky, R W; Gutwein, M; James, D

2013-07-01

Difficulties in accessing high-quality data on trace gas fluxes and performance of bioenergy/bioproduct feedstocks limit the ability of researchers and others to address environmental impacts of agriculture and the potential to produce feedstocks. To address those needs, the GRACEnet (Greenhouse gas Reduction through Agricultural Carbon Enhancement network) and REAP (Renewable Energy Assessment Project) research programs were initiated by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS). A major product of these programs is the creation of a database with greenhouse gas fluxes, soil carbon stocks, biomass yield, nutrient, and energy characteristics, and input data for modeling cropped and grazed systems. The data include site descriptors (e.g., weather, soil class, spatial attributes), experimental design (e.g., factors manipulated, measurements performed, plot layouts), management information (e.g., planting and harvesting schedules, fertilizer types and amounts, biomass harvested, grazing intensity), and measurements (e.g., soil C and N stocks, plant biomass amount and chemical composition). To promote standardization of data and ensure that experiments were fully described, sampling protocols and a spreadsheet-based data-entry template were developed. Data were first uploaded to a temporary database for checking and then were uploaded to the central database. A Web-accessible application allows for registered users to query and download data including measurement protocols. Separate portals have been provided for each project (GRACEnet and REAP) at nrrc.ars.usda.gov/slgracenet/#/Home and nrrc.ars.usda.gov/slreap/#/Home. The database architecture and data entry template have proven flexible and robust for describing a wide range of field experiments and thus appear suitable for other natural resource research projects. Copyright © by the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America, Inc.

Laurel wilt: A global threat to avocado production

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Laurel wilt kills American members of the Lauraceae plant family, including avocado (Persea americana). The disease threatens commercial avocado production in Florida, as well as the National Germplasm Repository for avocado in Miami (USDA-ARS). Elsewhere in the US, major (California) and minor comm...

Instrumentation for full-year plot-scale runoff monitoring

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Replicated 0.34 ha cropping systems plots have been in place since 1991 at the USDA-ARS Goodwater Creek Experimental Watershed in central Missouri. Recently, instrumentation has been installed at 18 of those plots for continuous runoff water quality and quantity monitoring. That installation require...

Registration of "CPSG-3481 sugarcane

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‘CPSG-3481’ (Reg. No. , PI 676023) sugarcane (a complex hybrid of Saccharum spp.) was a new cultivar developed through cooperative research conducted by the Shakarganj Sugar Research Institute in Pakistan and the USDA-ARS Sugarcane Field Station in USA, and released to growers for loam soils...

Laurel wilt: A global threat to avocado production

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Laurel wilt kills members of the Lauraceae plant family, including avocado. The disease has invaded much of the southeastern USA, and threatens avocado commerce and homeowner production in Florida, valuable germplasm in Miami (USDA-ARS), and major production and germplasm in California and MesoAmer...

The Second International Symposium on Plant Cryopreservation

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Second International Symposium on Plant Cryopreservation was held in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, from August 11-14, 2013, under the auspices of the International Society for Horticultural Science. The town of Fort Collins is home to the USDA-ARS, National Center for Genetic Resources Preservati...

Crop stubble needs and opportunities

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Farmers in Australia and elsewhere around the world are being offered opportunities to market their crop residues as a bioenergy feedstock, but many are not aware of how that could affect their soil resources. This report shares information from the USDA-ARS Renewable Energy Assessment Project (REAP...

Microwave bale moisture sensing: Field trial continued

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

A microwave moisture measurement technique was developed at the USDA, ARS Cotton Production and Processing Research Unit for moisture sensing of cotton bales after the bale press. The technique measures the propagation delay of a microwave signal that is transmitted through the cotton bale. This res...

Improved Mineral Nutrition for Pear Shoot Cultures

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository has over 200 pear accessions in culture, encompassing 18 species. Plant growth response on standard tissue culture medium varies widely due to the wide horticultural diversity of this collection. We used a systematic response-surface approach to eva...

Update on organic rice research

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Organic products command a premium in the marketplace and bring greater farmgate value to growers and processors. Although total rice acreage has decreased in Texas over the last ten years, there has been an increase in rice acreage produced under organic management. USDA ARS has conducted research ...

Municipal biosolid applications: Improving ecosystem services across urban, agricultural, and wildlife interfaces in Austin, Texas

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Our project encompasses emerging contaminants, ecosystem services, and urban-agriculture-wildlife interfaces. This seminal research collaboration between USDA-ARS Grassland, Soil, and Water Research Laboratory, The City of Austin Water Utility, and Texas Parks and Wildlife Environmental Contaminant...

Field Assessment of A Variable-rate Aerial Application System

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Several experiments were conducted to evaluate the system response of a variable-rate aerial application controller to changing flow rates. The research is collaboration between the USDA, ARS, APTRU and Houma Avionics, USA, manufacturer of a widely used flow controller designed for agricultural airc...

Water Quality Additions to CASC2D - Taps

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2001-09-01

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Long term agro-ecosystem research: The Southern Plains partnership

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The USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is coordinating ten well-established research sites as a Long Term Agro-ecosystem Research (LTAR) Network. The goal of the LTAR is to sustain a land-based infrastructure for research, environmental management testing, and education, that enables understan...

Limited irrigation research and infrared thermometry for detecting water stress

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The USDA-ARS Limited Irrigation Research Farm, located outside of Greeley Colorado, is an experiment evaluating management perspectives of limited irrigation water. An overview of the farm systems is shown, including drip irrigation systems, water budgeting, and experimental design, as well as preli...

Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA) Documentation Version 2.0

EPA Science Inventory

The Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment Http://www.epa.gov/nerlesd1/landsci/agwa/introduction.htm and www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/agwa) tool is a GIS interface jointly developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, University of Arizon...

AGWA: The Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment Tool

EPA Science Inventory

The Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment Tool (AGWA, see: www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/agwa or http://www.epa.gov/esd/land-sci/agwa/) is a GIS interface jointly developed by the USDA-Agricultural Research Service, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the University of Arizona...

Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment Tool (AGWA) Poster Presentation

EPA Science Inventory

The Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment tool (AGWA, see: www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/agwa or http://www.epa.gov/esd/land-sci/agwa/) is a GIS interface jointly developed by the USDA-Agricultural Research Service, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the University of Arizona...

Notice of Release: 'Stress tolerant smooth bromegrass STSB'

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture announces the release of a stress tolerant smooth bromegrass (STSB) [Bromus inermys, Leyss.] germplasm (PI xxxx) developed by Dr. Bryan K. Kindiger at the USDA-ARS Grazinglands Research Laboratory, El Reno, OK 73036. STSB is release...

Notice of release of Syn1 Tall Fescue

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture announces the release of Syn1 tall fescue [Festuca arundinacea (syn., Lolium arundinaceum Darbyshire; Schedonorus phoenix (Scop.) Holub)] (PI xxxx, PI xxxx) germplasm developed by Dr. Bryan K. Kindiger at the USDA-ARS Grazinglands Res...

Rangeland Research Roundup -1

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Welcome to the inaugural edition of “Rangeland Research Roundup”. Please allow me to introduce myself and provide an overview of our rangeland research in this edition. My name is Justin Derner and I have been the Research Leader for the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Rangeland Resources...

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Semiarid ECohydrological Array – SECA 2058

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The Southwestern ECohydrology Array (SECA) is a multi-user network that serves to assess biosphere / atmospheric exchange processes, as well as surface hydrology in semiarid ecosystems. SECA is administered through the USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center and the University of Arizona’s B2 E...

Subsurface Chloride Transport in Shallow Groundwater

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

High soil spatial heterogeneity was observed at the USDA-ARS Beltsville OPE3 field site using geophysical surveys (ground-penetrating radar) and soil textural analysis. This was confirmed with data on crop yields and pesticide concentrations in wells. To assess effects of soil heterogeneity on soil ...

MaizeGDB: New tools and resource

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

MaizeGDB, the USDA-ARS genetics and genomics database, is a highly curated, community-oriented informatics service to researchers focused on the crop plant and model organism Zea mays. MaizeGDB facilitates maize research by curating, integrating, and maintaining a database that serves as the central...

Using UAVs to enhance the quality of precision agriculture

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Recent studies by USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have indicated potential for significant improvement in the quality and application of Precision Agriculture products through the use of very high resolution imagery. An assessment of potential platforms to collect such imagery at an afford...

Characterization of chicken dendritic cell markers

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Animal and Natural Resources Institute, ARS-USDA, Beltsville, MD, USA. New mouse monoclonal antibodies which detect CD80 and CD83 were developed to characterize chicken dendritic cells (DCs). The characteristics of these molecules have been studied in human, swine, ovine, feline, and canine but not ...

Management Can Reduce Contamination Potential of Beef Backgrounding

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Producers who want to “background” beef cattle on karst landscapes face great challenges. This is because without proper management, manure-borne contaminants from backgrounding sites can quickly degrade water quality in karst regions. Western Kentucky University and USDA-ARS reported on three-year ...

Validating selective breeding approaches for disease resistance

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Selective breeding of rainbow trout at the USDA/ARS National Center for Cool and Cold Water Aquaculture (NCCCWA) in Leetown, West Virginia is designed to accomplish four goals: 1) define commercially important traits such as disease resistance, growth rate, stress response, and feed efficiency; 2) d...

Proceedings of the Government Users Workshop on Ground Penetrating Radar Applications and Equipment 26-27 March 1992 Vicksburg, Mississippi

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1992-12-01

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First Report of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma trifolii’-Related Strain of 16SrVI-A Phytoplasma Subgroup, Associated with Elm Yellows Disease in American Elm ( Ulmus americana L.) in Ohio, U.S.A

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C.E. Flower; N. Hayes-Plazolles; J.M. Slavicek; C. Rosa

2018-01-01

During the investigation of the sudden and early onset of yellowing and mortality of American elm (Ulmus americana L.) trees at the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station in Delaware, OH, a phytoplasma of the clover proliferation group (16SrVI) was detected as the putative causal agent of the disease outbreak.

Review of the 2012 Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease Outbreak in Domestic Ruminants in the United States

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Stevens, G.; McCluskey, B.; King, A.; O’Hearn, E.; Mayr, G.

2015-01-01

An unusually large number of cases of Epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) were observed in United States cattle and white-tailed deer in the summer and fall of 2012. USDA APHIS Veterinary Services area offices were asked to report on foreign animal disease investigations and state diagnostic laboratory submissions which resulted in a diagnosis of EHD based on positive PCR results. EHD was reported in the following species: cattle (129 herds), captive white-tailed deer (65 herds), bison (8 herds), yak (6 herds), elk (1 herd), and sheep (1 flock). A majority of the cases in cattle and bison were found in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Iowa. The majority of cases in captive white-tailed deer were found in Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, and Missouri. The most common clinical sign observed in the cattle and bison herds was oral lesions. The major observation in captive white-tailed deer herds was death. Average within-herd morbidity was 7% in cattle and bison herds, and 46% in captive white-tailed deer herds. The average within-herd mortality in captive white-tailed deer herds was 42%. PMID:26244773

Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment Tool (AGWA)

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The Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment tool (AGWA, see: www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/agwa or http://www.epa.gov/esd/land-sci/agwa/) is a GIS interface jointly developed by the USDA Agricultural Research Service, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the University of Arizona, and the University ...

Exergames: Theoretical perspective

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This paper is based on an invited presentation as part of the Exergame Preconference Symposium held in Houston, TX May 19-20, 2014 that was hosted by Tom Baranowski, PhD, and the USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine. Its purpose is to provide insight into the way...

Detection, monitoring, and evaluation of spatio-temporal change in mosquito populations

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USDA-ARS scientists seek to implement a sampling and global information technology based system that can be used for mosquito detection and trap deployment, to estimate mosquito species composition and distribution in space and time, and for targeting and evaluation of mosquito controls. Knowledge ...

Registration of ‘Endurance’ Wheat

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‘Endurance’ (Reg. No. CV-994, PI 639233) hard red winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was released to certified seed growers with permission of the Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station and the USDA-ARS in 2004. Its name derives from the unique ability to endure and recover from extended and inte...

The NSET Subcommittee | Nano

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Important Information to Know When You Are Taking: Warfarin (Coumadin) and Vitamin K

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... 57 48 30-48 37 29 21 Other foods and beverages not listed in the table may be consumed ... www.ars.usda.gov/nutrientdata Important Drug and Food Information Page ... (Coumadin)? Alcoholic Beverages Alcohol can affect your warfarin (Coumadin) dose and ...

BOTOX and our tax dollars at work

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This seminar is intended for Masters level graduate students in biology at the University of the Pacific. Topics of the seminar will include information on USDA-ARS research at the Albany location and general background on botulism and neurotoxin biology. In addition, the following FCR unit botulinu...

Bushland Reference ET Calculator with QA/QC capabilities and iPhone/iPad application

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Accurate daily reference evapotranspiration (ET) values are needed to estimate crop water demand for irrigation management and hydrologic modeling purposes. The USDA-ARS Conservation and Production Research Laboratory at Bushland, Texas developed the Bushland Reference ET (BET) Calculator for calcul...

Inferring geographic origin of barley accessions using molecular markers

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The USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) National Small Grains Collection (NSGC) has 207 landrace barleys obtained from a nursery grown in the Ukraine in 1930 by N.I. Vavilov, many of which have multiple resistance (MR) to disease similar to accessions from Ethiopia. Vavilov collected germplasm ...

New Brahman breed improvement program at STARS

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At the USDA, ARS, Subtropical Agricultural Research Station (STARS) in Brooksville, Florida we have initiated a new ambitious research project that many believe will have a positive influence on the Brahman breed. This research was developed from a meeting held at STARS that included past and prese...

Evaluation of wild juglans species for crown gall resistance

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During the 2009 USDA, ARS, National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR) germplasm screening season, we examined a total of ~300 seedlings from "new" genotypes for their resistance to A. tumefaciens. This consisted of seedlings from 89 mother trees representing J. regia and its conspecific taxon, J. s...

Adaptive cover crop implementation and evaluation in the Chesapeake Bay watersheds

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Four years of applied research, led by the USDA-ARS Choptank River Conservation Reserve Assessment Project (CEAP), have demonstrated that satellite remote sensing, used in combination with cost-share program farm implementation records, can provide a powerful tool for evaluating the nutrient conserv...

AmeriFlux US-Rls RCEW Low Sagebrush

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Flerchinger, Gerald [USDA Agricultural Research Service

2018-01-01

This is the AmeriFlux version of the carbon flux data for the site US-Rls RCEW Low Sagebrush. Site Description - The site is located on the USDA-ARS's Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed. It is dominated by low sagebrush on land managed by USDI Bureau of Land Management.

Development of North American forb plant materials for rangeland revegetation and restoration

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Plant materials development for Intermountain rangelands is a primary mission of the USDA-ARS Forage and Range Research Laboratory. Currently there is a significant demand for North American forbs (including legumes) for rangeland revegetation and restoration in the Great Basin, but commercial quan...

Current, Short Term, Future and Star Wars Research Projects for Ornamental Crops

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The USDA-ARS Greenhouse Production Research Group is involved in fundamental and developmental plant research aimed at developing tools for early stress detection and efficient agrochemical utilization for protected horticulture crops. The group conducts basic plant biology research with the goal o...

Factors affecting transmission rates of 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus' by Asian citrus psyllid

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The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri, is an important pest because it transmits a bacterium ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ (CLas) responsible for a serious disease of citrus known as Asiatic huanglongbing (citrus greening disease). USDA-ARS researchers recently established a program...

Seed storage effects on germination for two forage kochia cultivars

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The cultivar ‘Snowstorm’ forage kochia was released by the USDA-ARS in 2012. It is a synthetic cultivar selected for stature, forage production, and adaptation to semiarid environments. Similar to the earlier released (1984) ‘Immigrant’ cultivar it can increase rangeland productivity magnitudes when...

Maize Genetic Resources Collections – Utilizing a Treasure Trove

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The maize genetic resource collection managed by the USDA-ARS's National Plant Germplasm System is heavily utilized by researchers and educators. A collection of landraces, inbred lines from public and private sector sources, synthetics and key populations, it serves both as a living snapshot of th...

Germplasm enhancement for RWA resistance

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Our contribution to this annual newsletter is a summary of research accomplishments in the past year in germplasm enhancement for RWA resistance in barley at the USDA-ARS, Wheat, Peanut and Other Field Crops Research Unit, Stillwater, OK. RWA is a serious pest of barley in the intermountain regions...

Germplasm enhancement for RWA resistance

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Our contribution to this annual newsletter is a summary of research accomplishments in the past year in germplasm enhancement for RWA resistance in barley at the USDA-ARS Wheat, Peanut and Other Field Crops Research Unit, Stillwater, OK. RWA is a serious pest of barley in the intermountain regions ...

Germplasm enhancement for RWA resistance

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Our contribution to this annual newsletter is a summary of research accomplishments in the past year in germplasm enhancement for RWA resistance in barley at the USDA-ARS Wheat, Peanut and Other Field Crops Research Unit, Stillwater, OK. Russian wheat aphid (RWA) is a serious pest of barley in the ...

Breeding and quantitative genetics advances in sunflower Sclerotinia research

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Genetic research of the sunflower research unit, USDA-ARS, in Fargo, ND, was discussed in a presentation to a group of producers, industry representatives, and scientists. The need for sunflower quantitative genetics research to find and capture Sclerotinia resistance is increasing with every year t...

Chemical ecology of Xyleborus glabratus and implications for monitoring and management

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Abstract Chemical ecology of Xyleborus glabratus and implications for monitoring and management Paul E. Kendra, Wayne S. Montgomery, Jerome Niogret, Elena Q. Schnell, and Nancy D. Epsky USDA-ARS, Subtropical Horticulture Research Station, 13601 Old Cutler Rd., Miami, FL 33158 The redbay ambrosia b...

Trapping systems for Zaprionus indianus (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

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62nd Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America 16-19 November 2014; Portland, OR Title: Trapping systems for Zaprionus indianus (Diptera: Drosophilidae) Nancy D. Epsky, Micah A. Gill, C. Teri Allen, Dong H. Cha, and Peter J. Landolt Nancy D. Epsky USDA-ARS, Subtropical Horticulture...

Atlantic salmon and eastern oyster breeding programs at the National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center

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The USDA-ARS National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center (NCWMAC) focuses on the coldwater marine aquaculture industry's highest priority research needs including development of improved genetic stocks. Coldwater aquaculture production has potential for expansion, and both Atlantic salmon and East...

Trash particle distribution measurements in ginned cotton

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A beltwide commercial cotton gin sampling project was initiated for the 2005-06 and 2006-07 ginning seasons to assess the changes in upland cotton quality during the ginning process and throughout the ginning season. The Cotton Trash Identification System (CTIS) developed at the USDA-ARS Southwester...

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Alternative cropping systems for sugarcane

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Planting cover crops during the fallow period prior to planting sugarcane has the potential to influence not only the following sugarcane crop, but the economics of the production system as a whole. Research was conducted at the USDA, ARS, Sugarcane Research Unit at Houma, LA to determine the impac...

Introduction to the newly released GRIN-Global

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The Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) is an information management system that curates data for the USDA-ARS genetic resource collections. GRIN was developed in the late 1980s and has been incrementally improved over the past 35 years. A major revision was recently deployed to service t...

Genetic resources in the USDA, ARS, PGRCU legume crop germplasm collections with phyto-pharmaceutical uses

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Seventeen health functional legumes including butterfly pea (Clitoria ternatea L.), Indigofera cassioides Rottler ex DC., I. linnaei Ali, I. suffruticosa Mill., hyacinth bean [Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet], velvetbean [Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC], jicama [Pachyrhizus erosus (L.) Urb.], winged bean [Psop...

Improving Food Safety by Understanding the Evolution of Egg-contaminating Salmonella Enteritidis

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Improving Food Safety by Understanding the Evolution of Egg-contaminating Salmonella Enteritidis Jean Guard, Veterinary Medical Officer U. S. Department of Agriculture, Athens, GA USA (jean.guard@ars.usda.gov) The curious case of egg contamination by Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis S. ...

Sustaining the Earth's watersheds, agricultural research data system

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The USDA-ARS water resources program has developed a web-based data system, STEWARDS: Sustaining the Earth’s Watersheds, Agricultural Research Data System to support research that encompasses a broad range of topics such as water quality, hydrology, conservation, land use, and soils. The data syst...

Repeatability of Sugarcane Selection on Sand and Organic Soils

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The Canal Point (CP) Sugarcane Cultivar Development Program (a cooperative program between the USDA-ARS, the University of Florida and the Florida Sugarcane League) has been more successful at breeding for cultivars adapted to organic soils (muck) than for those adapted to sand soils. Currently, onl...

USDA-ARS Hydrology Laboratory MISWG Hydrology Workshop

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Jackson, T. J.

1982-01-01

Current research being conducted in remote sensing techniques for measuring hydrologic parameters and variables deals with runoff curve numbers (CN), evapotranspiration (ET), and soil moisture. The CN and ET research utilizes visible and infrared measurements. Soil moisture investigations focus on the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Quality-control materials in the USDA National Food and Nutrient Analysis Program (NFNAP).

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Phillips, Katherine M; Patterson, Kristine Y; Rasor, Amy S; Exler, Jacob; Haytowitz, David B; Holden, Joanne M; Pehrsson, Pamela R

2006-03-01

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL) develops and maintains the USDA National Nutrient Databank System (NDBS). Data are released from the NDBS for scientific and public use through the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR) ( http://www.ars.usda.gov/ba/bhnrc/ndl ). In 1997 the NDL initiated the National Food and Nutrient Analysis Program (NFNAP) to update and expand its food-composition data. The program included: 1) nationwide probability-based sampling of foods; 2) central processing and archiving of food samples; 3) analysis of food components at commercial, government, and university laboratories; 4) incorporation of new analytical data into the NDBS; and 5) dissemination of these data to the scientific community. A key feature and strength of the NFNAP was a rigorous quality-control program that enabled independent verification of the accuracy and precision of analytical results. Custom-made food-control composites and/or commercially available certified reference materials were sent to the laboratories, blinded, with the samples. Data for these materials were essential to ongoing monitoring of analytical work, to identify and resolve suspected analytical problems, to ensure the accuracy and precision of results for the NFNAP food samples.

Long-term Watershed Database for the Ridge and Valley Physiographic Province: Mahantango Creek Watershed, Pennsylvania, USA

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Understanding agricultural effects on water quality in rivers and estuaries requires understanding of hydrometeorology and geochemical cycling at various scales over time. The USDA-ARS initiated a hydrologic research program at the Mahantango Creek Watershed (MCW) in 1968, a research watershed at t...

Development, release and dissemination of "Sankara" black bean in Haiti

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Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) production in the Caribbean is threatened by Bean Golden Yellow Mosaic Virus (BGYMV), Bean Common Mosaic Virus (BCMV) and Bean Common Mosaic Necrosis Virus (BCMNV). The University of Puerto Rico, the University of Nebraska, the USDA-ARS, Zamorano and the National ...

Registration of ‘CP 09-1822’ Sugarcane

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‘CP 09-1822’ (Reg. No. __; PI 686942 sugarcane (a complex hybrid of Saccharum spp.) was released in June 2016 for commercial cultivation on sand (mineral) soils in Florida. This cultivar was developed through a collaborative sugarcane cultivar development program of the USDA-ARS, the University of F...

Assessments of genetic diversity and anthracnose disease response among Zimbabwe sorghum germplasm.

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The USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System maintains a Zimbabwe sorghum collection of 1,235 accessions from different provinces. This germplasm has not been extensively employed in U.S. breeding programs due to the lack of phenotypic and genetic characterization. Therefore, 68 accessions from th...

Theobroma cacao: A genetically integrated physical map and genome-scale comparative synteny analysis

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A comprehensive integrated genomic framework is considered a centerpiece of genomic research. In collaboration with the USDA-ARS (SHRS) and Mars Inc., the Clemson University Genomics Institute (CUGI) has developed a genetically anchored physical map of the T. cacao genome. Three BAC libraries contai...

CottonDB: A resource for cotton genome research

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CottonDB (http://cottondb.org/) is a database and web resource for cotton genomic and genetic research. Created in 1995, CottonDB was among the first plant genome databases established by the USDA-ARS. Accessed through a website interface, the database aims to be a convenient, inclusive medium of ...

Point discharge current measurements beneath dust devils

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We document for the first time observations of point discharge currents under dust devils using a novel compact sensor deployed in summer 2016 at the USDA-ARS Jornada Experimental Range in New Mexico, USA. A consistent signature is noted in about a dozen events seen over 40 days, with a positive cur...

Dr. Chad E. Finn, 2013 Wilder Medal Recipient

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Dr. Chad Finn took over the leadership of the USDA-ARS small fruit breeding program in Corvallis, Oregon in 1993 after three years working as an extension horticulturist in the Department of Horticulture at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Since taking over this program he has developed what is...

Fruit quality traits of ten California-grown pomegranate cultivars harvested over three months

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Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is a deciduous tree crop. Its fruit are known to have relatively high concentrations of polyphenolic compounds and antioxidant properties. The USDA-ARS pomegranate germplasm collection maintains over 250 cultivars, but most have not been evaluated for optimal harvest...

Optical sensing technologies for rapid food safety and quality inspection

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Public concerns for food safety and foodborne illness have risen in recent years. There is a need to expand efforts to prevent and mitigate any food contamination that can potentially be harmful to human health. Researchers at the Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory, ARS, USDA is one...

USDA-ARS Highlights and emerging research on agricultural water use

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Agriculture production accounts for 16% of the $9 trillion gross domestic product, 8% of exports and 17% of employment. Although less than 2% of Americans work on farms, 100% of citizens are users of farm products. Since WWII, the growth of agricultural inputs has remained flat, while productivity h...

The role of chemistry in poisonous plant research: Current status and future prospects

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Poisonous plants are a major cause of economic loss to livestock producers in many parts of the world. Losses include deaths, abortions, birth defects, reduced production and lost forage value. The USDA-ARS-Poisonous Plant Research Lab in collaboration with the Inner Mongolia Agricultural Univers...

A Working Ranch with an Effective Medusahead Management Program

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Since 2005, rancher Ben McGough, owner of the Circle Bar Ranch in Mitchell, Oregon, has been working with USDA-ARS rangeland ecologist Roger Sheley to implement EBIPM on the ranch. More than 600 acres were infested with medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) when they began working together. We de...

Precipitation, irrigation and crop growth signals in COSMOS data

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Soil water sensors are used to characterize water content in the root zone and below for water management and environmental monitoring, but only a few are capable of sensing soil volumes larger than a few hundred liters. Scientists with the USDA-ARS Conservation & Production Research Laboratory, Bus...

The effects of natural and induced short-term floods on four sugarcane accessions

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A study was initiated at the USDA/ARS Subtropical Horticulture Research Station, Miami, FL to evaluate the potential for flood tolerance in several accessions from Saccharum barberi (Jeswiet) and S. sinense (Roxb. Amend. Jeswiet) sugarcane genera. The experimental design included 4 accessions, Kewal...

Funtionality of Sucralose/Maltodextrin: Isomalt blends in Oatmeal Cookies

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Functionality of Sucralose/Maltodextrin:Isomalt blends in Oatmeal Cookies Ruthann B. Swanson1, Rebecca McKemie1, Elizabeth M. Savage2 and Hong Zhuang2 1University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30605; 2ARS-USDA, Athens, GA 30605 Availability of reduced-in-sugar baked products with quality characteristics...

Germplasm Release: Tissue Culture-Derived Curly Top-Resistant Genetic Stock

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The USDA-ARS sugarbeet research program at Kimberly is focused on discovering novel genes for resistance to beet curly top and other economically important diseases. It is vital in genetics research to develop uniform breeding lines and genetic stocks to study inheritance, gene transfer (through co...

Length and Rapid Elongation of Pedicels of the Female Flowers of Cucumis anguria L.

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This report summarizes observations on the length and growth of pedicels of pollinated and unpollinated female flowers of Cucumis anguria var. anguria and C. anguria var. longaculeatus. These observations were conducted on six germplasm accessions of C. anguria conserved by the USDA-ARS North Centr...

Initial validation of the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission using USDA-ARS watersheds

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The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission was launched in January 2015 to measure global surface soil moisture. The calibration and validation program of SMAP relies upon an international cooperative of in situ networks to provide ground truth references across a variety of landscapes. The U...

Nuclear and chloroplast microsatellite markers to assess genetic diversity and evolution in hazelnut species, hybrids and cultivars

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Clonal Germplasm Repository (NCGR) in Corvallis, Oregon, preserves more than 800 accessions of hazelnut (Corylus) including C. avellana cultivars and representatives of 10 other recognized shrub and tree species...

Citrus Research Board-sponsored review of the University of California Riverside citrus breeding

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In October 2015 the Citrus Research Board (CRB) assembled a panel of experts to review the Citrus Research Board-sponsored Citrus Research and Genetics Programs at University of California Riverside (UCR). The panel consisted of: Gennaro Fazio, USDA/ARS, Geneva, NY; Maria Angeles Forner-Giner, Insti...

Challenges in the development of a widely applicable method for sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) shoot tip cryopreservation

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The USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) maintains 946 accessions of sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) in the field at the Subtropical Horticulture Research Station in Miami, Florida. These accessions are particularly vulnerable to hurricanes, diseases, and other threats. We sought to a identify...

Status of biological control projects on yellow starthistle, Russian thistle, Scotch thistle, Cape-ivy and French broom

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The USDA-ARS quarantine laboratory in Albany, CA, in cooperation with foreign scientists, is currently developing classical biological control agents for five species of invasive alien terrestrial weeds. Host specificity testing of the yellow starthistle rosette weevil, Ceratapion basicorne, indica...

Flooding in ephemeral streams: incorporating transmission losses

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Stream flow in semiarid lands commonly occurs as a form of flash floods in dry ephemeral stream beds. The goal of this research is to couple hydrological and hydraulic models treats channel transmission losses and test the methodology in the USDA-ARS Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed (WGEW). For h...

Characterization of naturalized cacao populations in Puerto Rico

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Native to the headwaters of the Amazon River, cacao is an important agricultural tree crop produced in tropical regions around the world. Its raw product, the seed or ‘beans’, is the source for the multi-billion dollar chocolate industry. The USDA-ARS Tropical Agriculture Research Station in Mayag...

Azadirachtin powder for control of root-knot nematodes in tomato

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USDA ARS Daniel K. Inouye U.S. Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, 64 Nowelo St., Hilo, HI 96720. Root-knot nematodes cause root galling and yield reductions in many vegetable crops, including tomato. Three organic treatments to improve root growth and reduce nematode infestation were eval...

Beet curly top resistance in USDA-ARS Ft. Collins germplasm, 2017

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Curly top caused by Beet curly top virus (BCTV) is a widespread disease problem vectored by the beet leafhopper in semiarid sugar beet production areas. Host resistance is the primary defense against this problem, but resistance in commercial cultivars is only low to intermediate. In order to iden...

Beet curly top resistance in USDA-ARS plant introduction lines, 2017

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Curly top caused by Beet curly top virus (BCTV) is a widespread disease problem vectored by the beet leafhopper in semiarid sugar beet production areas. Host resistance is the primary defense against this problem, but resistance in commercial cultivars is only low to intermediate. In order to iden...

The quest to identify disease resistance in the USDA-ARS Juglans germplasm collection

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Ninety-nine percent of the U.S. Persian walnut crop is produced in California, USA, where walnut trees are typically grown on the hybrid rootstock Paradox (Juglans hindsii x Juglans regia). However, despite their popularity and relative advantage, Paradox seedling rootstocks are susceptible to Agr...

Peach cultivar releases and fruit trait distribution in the USDA-ARS Byron program

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Conventional plant breeding is often daunting and costly, but it has a long history of success and remains predominant in today’s crop improvement programs. Success depends on optimal combination of parents to produce sufficient hybrids, and comprehensive evaluation of the hybrids to select potentia...

LTAR linkages with other research networks: Capitalizing on network interconnections

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The USDA ARS Research Unit based at the Jornada Experimental Range outside of Las Cruces, NM, is a member of the USDA’s Long Term Agro-ecosystem Research (LTAR) Network, the National Science Foundation’s Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network, the National Ecological Observation Network (NEON)...

Registration of 'OLé' peanut

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OLé peanut (experimental designation ARSOK-S140-1OL) is a high oleic Spanish-type peanut (Arachis hypogaea L. subsp. fastigiata var. vulgaris) that was cooperatively released by the USDA-ARS and the Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station in 2014. OLé is the product of a Tamspan 90 X F435, the ori...

Perspectives on the developing common experiment across the 18 sites within the long term agroecosystem research network

Treesearch

Kris Havstad

2016-01-01

The USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) established a Long Term Agroecosystem Research Network (LTAR) across 10 of its research locations, including some of its large watershed facilities, in 2012 and expanded that network to 18 locations in 2014.

AmeriFlux US-Rms RCEW Mountain Big Sagebrush

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Flerchinger, Gerald [USDA Agricultural Research Service

2017-01-01

This is the AmeriFlux version of the carbon flux data for the site US-Rms RCEW Mountain Big Sagebrush. Site Description - The site is located on the USDA-ARS's Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed. It is dominated by mountain big sagebrush on land managed by USDI Bureau of Land Management.

Impact of the agricultural research service watershed assessment studies on the conservation effects assessment project cropland national assessment

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

USDA initiated the Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) in 2002 to analyze societal and environmental benefits gained from the increased conservation program funding provided in the 2002 Farm Bill. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), and...

Hard Spring Wheat Technical Committee 2016 Crop

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Seven experimental lines of hard spring wheat were grown at up to five locations in 2016 and evaluated for kernel, milling, and bread baking quality against the check variety Glenn. Wheat samples were submitted through the Wheat Quality Council and processed and milled at the USDA-ARS Hard Red Spri...

The Tropical Fruit Research Program of the USDA-ARS Tropical Agriculture Research Station

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Tropical and subtropical fruit crops are of major importance in commercial and subsistence agriculture. The globalization of the economy and the increased demand for healthy and more diverse food products have opened a large market for many of these fruit crops. Despite this fact, increased produc...

Monitoring sodium in commercially processed foods from stores and restaurants

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Most of the sodium we eat comes from commercially processed foods from stores and restaurants. Sodium reduction in these foods is a key component of several recent public health efforts. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of USDA, CDC and FDA have launched a collaborative program to monitor sodium ...

The long and short of it: Sugarcane planting systems (whole stalks, billets, and single nodes)

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Louisiana sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) producers use vegetative cuttings to plant their 100,000 plus acres of their sugarcane crop rotation each year. Researchers with USDA-ARS, LSU AgCenter, American Sugar Cane League, private industry, and producers have conducted cooperative and independent researc...

Initial experiences utilizing exotic landrace germplasm in an upland cotton breeding program

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A critical objective of plant breeding programs is accessing new sources of genetic variation. In upland cotton, one of the relatively untapped sources of genetic variation is maintained in the USDA-ARS cotton germplasm collection and is the exotic landrace collection. Photoperiod sensitivity is a m...

Lubbock Gin Lab - Current Research and Leaf Grade Issues

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This presentation was given to a group of cotton gin managers and allied industry reps. Approximately 100 attendees were in the audience. A discussion of the current research conducted at the USDA ARS CPPRU Ginning Laboratory in Lubbock, TX was given along with a discussion of leaf grade issues and ...

Registration of "Essex" lentil

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

‘Essex’ lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) was released by the USDA-ARS in August 2009. Essex, selection LC01602307E, originated as an F5 selection from the cross of Richlea/PI 297754. Essex was released based on its superior yield performance relative to the variety Eston. Essex was tested in replicate...

Development of insect resistant sunflowers: Updates and challenges

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Entomology research of the sunflower research unit, USDA-ARS, in Fargo, ND, was discussed in a presentation to a group of producers, industry representatives, and scientists. There are 4 major insect pests for which we have no genetic resistance currently, and the goal of our work is to find genetic...

A multi-disciplinary approach to sugarcane research at the USDA, ARS, Sugarcane Research Unit in Houma

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The mission of the Sugarcane Research Unit (SRU) is to provide research-based solutions that enhance the viability of domestic sugarcane industry. To accomplish this mission, SRU uses a multidisciplinary approach to develop improved varieties and environmentally friendly production strategies. Cons...

Registration of maize inbred line GT603

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

GT603 (Reg. No. xxxx, PI xxxxxx) is a yellow dent maize (Zea mays L.) inbred line developed and released by the USDA-ARS Crop Protection and Management Research Unit in cooperation with the University of Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station in 2010. GT603 was developed through seven generations ...

Phenotypic evaluation of the World Collection of Sugarcane and Related Grasses

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Plants related to sugarcane (Saccharum sp.) produce biomass efficiently and rapidly and therefore may contain useful genes for biofuels. One of the two World Collections of Sugarcane and Related Grasses is located at the USDA-ARS Subtropical Horticulture Research Station in Miami, FL and presumably ...

Atlantic salmon and eastern oyster breeding programs at the National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

The USDA-ARS National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center (NCWMAC) focuses on the coldwater marine aquaculture industry’s highest priority research needs including development of improved genetic stocks. Coldwater aquaculture production has potential for expansion, and both Atlantic salmon and Eas...

Beet curly top resistance in USDA-ARS plant introduction lines, 2016

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Curly top caused by Beet curly top virus (BCTV) is a widespread disease problem vectored by the beet leafhopper in semiarid sugar beet production areas. Host resistance is the primary defense against this problem, but resistance in commercial cultivars is only low to intermediate. In order to iden...

Beet curly top resistance in USDA-ARS Kimberly germplasm lines, 2015

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

Curly top caused by Beet curly top virus is a widespread disease problem vectored by the beet leafhopper in semiarid sugar beet production areas. Host resistance is the primary defense against this problem, but resistance in commercial cultivars is only low to intermediate. In order to identify no...

Registration of ‘CP 07-2137’ sugarcane

USDA-ARS?s Scientific Manuscript database

‘CP 07-2137’ (Reg. No.__; PI__) sugarcane (a complex hybrid of Saccharum spp.) was released in September 2014 to be cultivated on sandy (mineral) soils in Florida. CP 07-2137 was developed through a collaborative cultivar development program of the USDA-ARS, the University of Florida, and the Florid...

Registration of ‘CP 06-2400’ Sugarcane

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‘CP 06-2400’ (Reg. No. ; PI ____) sugarcane (a complex hybrid of Saccharum spp.) was developed through cooperative research conducted by the USDA-ARS, the University of Florida, and the Florida Sugar Cane League, Inc. and released to growers for organic (muck) soils in Florida in October 2013. ...

Registration of ‘CP 06-2400’ Sugarcane

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Technical Abstract: ‘CP 06-2400’ (Reg. No. ; PI 670018) sugarcane (a complex hybrid of Saccharum spp.) was developed through cooperative research conducted by the USDA-ARS, the University of Florida, and the Florida Sugar Cane League, Inc. and released to growers for organic (muck) soils in Fl...

Update on project determining biologically active compounds in milk

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The added health value of raw and pasteurized milk from organic and grass-fed herds is strongly debated because of limited, and often conflicting, scientific data. The Dairy & Functional Foods Research Unit, USDA-ARS-NAA, Wyndmoor, PA has an ongoing project to identify and compare the levels of bio...

Recovering tag fiber from cottonseed using the power roll gin

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In the mid-1990s, Cotton Incorporated and the USDA-ARS Cotton Production and Processing Research Unit developed a process that became known as EasiFlo™ cottonseed (Patent #5,750,466; Issued May 12, 1998). This process involves the application of gelatinized starch to the surface of fuzzy cottonseed,...

Annual Anastasia Arbovirus Surveillance and Mosquito Control Workshops: Summary of the Past 11 Years

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Realizing the needs of local mosquito control workers for advance training and education the Anastasia Mosquito Control District (AMCD) and the USDA-ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary entomology (CMAVE) developed a regional workshop to address these needs. Since 2004 the AMCD and CM...

Registration of ‘CP 09-1430’ Sugarcane

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‘CP 09-1430’ (Reg. No. ; PI 686940 sugarcane (a complex hybrid of Saccharum spp.) was developed and released (6 Jun. 2016) through cooperative research conducted by the USDA-ARS Sugarcane Field Station , Canal Point, the University of Florida, and the Florida Sugar Cane League, Inc. for use on ...

Registration of 'CP 09-2392' Sugarcane

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CP 09-2392’ (Reg. No.____; PI _____) sugarcane, a complex hybrid of Saccharum spp, was developed through cooperative research conducted by the USDA-ARS, the University of Florida, and the Florida Sugar Cane League, Inc., and was released to growers in June 2016. ‘CP 09-2392’ was selected from a cro...

Registration of Elizabeth Thlaspi arvense L. (Pennycress) with improved nondormant traits

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Elizabeth pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) germplasm (Reg. No. GP-36, PI 677360) was publicly released by the USDA-ARS in 2016 for the improvement of Thlaspi germplasm. Elizabeth was developed by four generations of mass selection based on the germination response of freshly harvested pennycress seed...

Field evaluation of four spatial repellent devices against Arkansas rice-land mosquitoes

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Four commercially available spatial repellent devices were tested in a rice land habitat near Stuttgart, Arkansas after semi-field level assessments had been made at the Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, ARS, USDA in Gainesville, FL. OFF! Clip-On® (a.i. metofluthrin, S.C....

Subsurface Water Flow and its Subsequent Impact on Chemical Behavior

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The impact of the subsurface stratigraphy on crop growth and agrichemical behavior has been studied for several years at the OPE3 research site located at the USDA-ARS Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, in Beltsville Maryland. This site contains subsurface restricting layers that have been id...

Resistance to phytophthora and graft compatibility with persian walnut among seedlings of chinese wingnut from different sources

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Seedlings from seven open-pollinated selections of Chinese wingnut (Pterocarya stenoptera) (WN) representing collections of the USDA-ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository at Davis CA and the University of California at Davis were evaluated as rootstocks for resistance to Phytophthora cinnamomi an...

Potential benefits from using a new reference map in genomic prediction

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Many genomic studies in cattle have used the 2009 reference assembly from the University of Maryland (UMD3.1). A new USDA Agricultural Research Service-University of California, Davis (ARS-UCD) assembly based on longer DNA reads from the same cow (Dominette) should improve sequence alignment, imputa...

Testing for Blackleg and Dickeya in the 2017 field season

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This article is aimed at raising awareness of the recently emerged potato blackleg disease and the research being conducted at USDA-ARS Ithaca and Cornell University to address this problem. This article explains the current management strategies for this disease and explains our research team’s re...

New perspectives on virus detection in shellfish: hemocytes as a source of concentrated virus

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USDA ARS research indicates that circulating phagocytic cells (hemocytes) within oysters retain virus particles. We find that persistence of hepatitis A virus (HAV) within oyster hemocytes correlates with the presence of virus within whole oysters. Since bivalve shellfish have no self-nonself immun...

High pressure processing as an intervention for raw virus-contaminated shellfish

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Over the past 7 years, the USDA ARS Seafood Safety Laboratory has evaluated the potential use of high pressure processing (HPP) as a processing strategy for virus-contaminated shellfish. HPP can inactivate hepatitis A virus, (HAV), the human norovirus surrogates feline calicivirus and murine norovi...

Genomics of peanut leaf-spot pathogens; and RNA-interference-mediated control of aflatoxins

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An overview update of the research done at USDA-ARS National Peanut Research Laboratory will be presented: including: the release of the Cercospora arachidicola genome, sequencing of Cercosporidium personatum, a workflow to study genetic diversity of aflatoxigenic Aspergillus, and progress on the us...

Recent progress in a classical biological control program for olive fruit fly in California

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The olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Diptera: Tephritidae), causes severe damage to olive production worldwide. Control of olive fruit fly typically relies on pesticides, and under such conditions the impact of natural enemies is relatively low. About 15 years ago, the USDA-ARS European Biologic...

Research at the Dairy and Functional Foods Research Unit

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Dr. Peggy Tomasula is Research Leader of the Dairy and Functional Foods Research Unit (DFFRU), ARS, USDA, Wyndmoor, PA, a group that includes 11 Research Scientists, 4 of whom are Lead Scientists (LS), 13 support scientists, and 3 Retired Collaborators. The mission of the DFFRU is to solve critical ...

Performance of a small wind powered water pumping system

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Lorentz helical pumps (Henstedt-Ulzburg, Germany) have been powered by solar energy for remote water pumping applications for many years, but from October 2005 to March 2008 a Lorentz helical pump was powered by wind energy at the USDA-ARS Conservation and Production Research Laboratory (CPRL) near ...

New seed-cotton reclaimer for high speed roller gins

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An experimental laboratory prototype reclaimer is being developed by the USDA-ARS in cooperation with Lummus Corporation. The objective of the project is to develop a seed-cotton reclaimer for high speed roller ginning that has a higher operational capacity and reduced seed loss in comparison to cur...

Infrared thermometry of water-stressed crops - emerging methods and technologies

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Infrared thermometry has shown potential to quantify water stress in crop canopy. This presentation will outline the limited irrigation experiments by the USDA-ARS in northern Colorado, which is used for a framework to evaluate canopy temperature. Recent methods have been introduced that may be accu...

Atlantic salmon breeding program at the National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center

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The USDA-ARS National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center (NCWMAC) in Franklin, ME has been supporting the U.S. coldwater marine aquaculture industry for the past thirteen years by developing a genetically improved North American Atlantic salmon. The St. John's River stock was chosen as the focal ...

COSMOS soil water sensing affected by crop biomass and water status

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Soil water sensing methods are widely used to characterize water content in the root zone and below, but only a few are capable of sensing soil volumes larger than a few hundred liters. Scientists with the USDA-ARS Conservation & Production Research Laboratory, Bushland, Texas, evaluated: a) the Cos...

Attributes for MRB_E2RF1 Catchments by Major River Basins in the Conterminous United States: NLCD 2001 Land Use and Land Cover

USGS Publications Warehouse

Wieczorek, Michael; LaMotte, Andrew E.

2010-01-01

This tabular data set represents the estimated area of land use and land cover from the National Land Cover Dataset 2001 (LaMotte, 2008), compiled for every MRB_E2RF1 catchment of the Major River Basins (MRBs, Crawford and others, 2006). The source data set represents land use and land cover for the conterminous United States for 2001. The National Land Cover Data Set for 2001 was produced through a cooperative project conducted by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium. The MRLC Consortium is a partnership of Federal agencies (http://www.mrlc.gov), consisting of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the National Park Service (NPS), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The MRB_E2RF1 catchments are based on a modified version of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) ERF1_2 and include enhancements to support national and regional-scale surface-water quality modeling (Nolan and others, 2002; Brakebill and others, 2011). Data were compiled for every MRB_E2RF1 catchment for the conterminous United States covering the South Atlantic-Gulf and Tennessee (MRB2), the Great Lakes, Ohio, Upper Mississippi, and Souris-Red-Rainy (MRB3), the Missouri (MRB4), the Lower Mississippi, Arkansas-White-Red, and Texas-Gulf (MRB5) and the Pacific Northwest (MRB7) river basins.

Attributes for MRB_E2RF1 Catchments by Major River Basins in the Conterminous United States: NLCD 2001 Imperviousness

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Wieczorek, Michael; LaMotte, Andrew E.

2010-01-01

This tabular data set represents the mean percent impervious surface from the Imperviousness Layer of the National Land Cover Dataset 2001, (LaMotte and Wieczorek, 2010), compiled for every MRB_E2RF1 catchment of selected Major River Basins (MRBs, Crawford and others, 2006). The source data set represents imperviousness for the conterminous United States for 2001. The Imperviousness Layer of the National Land Cover Data Set for 2001 was produced through a cooperative project conducted by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium. The MRLC Consortium is a partnership of Federal agencies (http://www.mrlc.gov), consisting of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the National Park Service (NPS), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The MRB_E2RF1 catchments are based on a modified version of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) ERF1_2 and include enhancements to support national and regional-scale surface-water quality modeling (Nolan and others, 2002;Brakebill and others, 2011). Data were compiled for every MRB_E2RF1 catchment for the conterminous United States covering New England and Mid-Atlantic (MRB1), South Atlantic-Gulf and Tennessee (MRB2), the Great Lakes, Ohio, Upper Mississippi, and Souris-Red-Rainy (MRB3), the Missouri (MRB4), the Lower Mississippi, Arkansas-White-Red, and Texas-Gulf (MRB5), the Rio Grande, Colorado, and the Great basin (MRB6), the Pacific Northwest (MRB7) river basins, and California (MRB8).

Attributes for MRB_E2RF1 Catchments by Major River Basins in the Conterminous United States: NLCD 2001 Tree Canopy

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Wieczorek, Michael; LaMotte, Andrew E.

2010-01-01

This tabular data set represents the mean percent tree canopy from the Canopy Layer of the National Land Cover Dataset 2001 (LaMotte and Wieczorek, 2010), compiled for every MRB_E2RF1 catchment of Major River Basins (MRBs, Crawford and others, 2006). The source data set represents tree canopy percentage for the conterminous United States for 2001. The Canopy Layer of the National Land Cover Data Set for 2001 was produced through a cooperative project conducted by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium. The MRLC Consortium is a partnership of Federal agencies (http://www.mrlc.gov), consisting of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the National Park Service (NPS), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The MRB_E2RF1 catchments are based on a modified version of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA) ERF1_2 and include enhancements to support national and regional-scale surface-water quality modeling (Nolan and others, 2002; Brakebill and others, 2011). Data were compiled for every MRB_E2RF1 catchment for the conterminous United States covering New England and Mid-Atlantic (MRB1), South Atlantic-Gulf and Tennessee (MRB2), the Great Lakes, Ohio, Upper Mississippi, and Souris-Red-Rainy (MRB3), the Missouri (MRB4), the Lower Mississippi, Arkansas-White-Red, and Texas-Gulf (MRB5), the Rio Grande, Colorado, and the Great basin (MRB6), the Pacific Northwest (MRB7) river basins, and California (MRB8).

Landscape complexity and soil moisture variation in south Georgia, USA, for remote sensing applications

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Giraldo, Mario A.; Bosch, David; Madden, Marguerite; Usery, Lynn; Kvien, Craig

2008-08-01

SummaryThis research addressed the temporal and spatial variation of soil moisture (SM) in a heterogeneous landscape. The research objective was to investigate soil moisture variation in eight homogeneous 30 by 30 m plots, similar to the pixel size of a Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) or Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) image. The plots were adjacent to eight stations of an in situ soil moisture network operated by the United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service USDA-ARS in Tifton, GA. We also studied five adjacent agricultural fields to examine the effect of different landuses/land covers (LULC) (grass, orchard, peanuts, cotton and bare soil) on the temporal and spatial variation of soil moisture. Soil moisture field data were collected on eight occasions throughout 2005 and January 2006 to establish comparisons within and among eight homogeneous plots. Consistently throughout time, analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed high variation in the soil moisture behavior among the plots and high homogeneity in the soil moisture behavior within them. A precipitation analysis for the eight sampling dates throughout the year 2005 showed similar rainfall conditions for the eight study plots. Therefore, soil moisture variation among locations was explained by in situ local conditions. Temporal stability geostatistical analysis showed that soil moisture has high temporal stability within the small plots and that a single point reading can be used to monitor soil moisture status for the plot within a maximum 3% volume/volume (v/v) soil moisture variation. Similarly, t-statistic analysis showed that soil moisture status in the upper soil layer changes within 24 h. We found statistical differences in the soil moisture between the different LULC in the agricultural fields as well as statistical differences between these fields and the adjacent 30 by 30 m plots. From this analysis, it was demonstrated that spatial proximity is not enough to produce similar soil moisture, since t-test's among adjacent plots with different LULCs showed significant differences. These results confirm that a remote sensing approach that considers homogeneous LULC landscape fragments can be used to identify landscape units of similar soil moisture behavior under heterogeneous landscapes. In addition, the in situ USDA-ARS network will serve better in remote sensing studies in which sensors with fine spatial resolution are evaluated. This study is a first step towards identifying landscape units that can be monitored using the single point reading of the USDA-ARS stations network.

Landscape complexity and soil moisture variation in south Georgia, USA, for remote sensing applications

USGS Publications Warehouse

Giraldo, M.A.; Bosch, D.; Madden, M.; Usery, L.; Kvien, Craig

2008-01-01

This research addressed the temporal and spatial variation of soil moisture (SM) in a heterogeneous landscape. The research objective was to investigate soil moisture variation in eight homogeneous 30 by 30 m plots, similar to the pixel size of a Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) or Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) image. The plots were adjacent to eight stations of an in situ soil moisture network operated by the United States Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service USDA-ARS in Tifton, GA. We also studied five adjacent agricultural fields to examine the effect of different landuses/land covers (LULC) (grass, orchard, peanuts, cotton and bare soil) on the temporal and spatial variation of soil moisture. Soil moisture field data were collected on eight occasions throughout 2005 and January 2006 to establish comparisons within and among eight homogeneous plots. Consistently throughout time, analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed high variation in the soil moisture behavior among the plots and high homogeneity in the soil moisture behavior within them. A precipitation analysis for the eight sampling dates throughout the year 2005 showed similar rainfall conditions for the eight study plots. Therefore, soil moisture variation among locations was explained by in situ local conditions. Temporal stability geostatistical analysis showed that soil moisture has high temporal stability within the small plots and that a single point reading can be used to monitor soil moisture status for the plot within a maximum 3% volume/volume (v/v) soil moisture variation. Similarly, t-statistic analysis showed that soil moisture status in the upper soil layer changes within 24 h. We found statistical differences in the soil moisture between the different LULC in the agricultural fields as well as statistical differences between these fields and the adjacent 30 by 30 m plots. From this analysis, it was demonstrated that spatial proximity is not enough to produce similar soil moisture, since t-test's among adjacent plots with different LULCs showed significant differences. These results confirm that a remote sensing approach that considers homogeneous LULC landscape fragments can be used to identify landscape units of similar soil moisture behavior under heterogeneous landscapes. In addition, the in situ USDA-ARS network will serve better in remote sensing studies in which sensors with fine spatial resolution are evaluated. This study is a first step towards identifying landscape units that can be monitored using the single point reading of the USDA-ARS stations network. ?? 2008 Elsevier B.V.

Morphological and reproductive characterization of guar genetic resources regenerated in Georgia, USA

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Guar, Cyamopsis tetragonoloba is used worldwide in food, laxatives, paper, oil well drilling, and in the mining industry. The USDA, ARS, PGRCU conserves 1,298 accessions originating from Pakistan and India. Guar accessions were directly planted to the field in Griffin, GA between early May and the s...

Discriminating oat and groat kernels from other grains using near infrared spectroscopy

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Oat and groats can be discriminated from other grains such as barley, wheat, rye, and triticale (non-oats) using near infrared spectroscopy. The two instruments tested were the manual version of the ARS-USDA Single Kernel Near Infrared (SKNIR) and the automated QualySense QSorter Explorer high-speed...

Ground and surface temperature variability for remote sensing of soil moisture in a heterogeneous landscape

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At the Little River Watershed (LRW) heterogeneous landscape near Tifton Georgia US an in situ network of stations operated by the US Department of Agriculture-Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS-SEWRL) was established in 2003 for the long term study of climatic and soil biophysical processes. To ...

How Does “Hunger” Level Impact Grazing Behavior?

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Grazing behavior can be influenced through feeding and grazing management decisions. Research at our USDA-ARS lab showed that ruminal fill, or how ‘hungry’ the cow is, can affect grazing behavior. Cows that had less ruminal fill took a bigger bite that was shallow and wide, compared to a ‘full’ cow ...

Alternative fumigants and grafting for tomato and double-cropped muskmelon production in Florida

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A field trial was conducted at the USDA, ARS Farm in Fort Pierce, FL in a field infested with root-knot nematodes (RKN) (Meloidogyne incognita), soil-borne pathogens, and weeds. A split plot experiment with four replications was used to evaluate rootstock/scion combinations in fumigated and herbicid...

Influence of irrigation scheduling using thermometry on peach tree water status and yield under different irrigation systems

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Remotely-sensed canopy temperature from infrared thermometer (IRT) sensors has long been shown to be effective for detecting plant water stress. To help alleviate water shortage, a field study was conducted at the USDA-ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center in Parlier, California USA to...

‘Kilauea’ and ‘Red Button’, Ohelo, Vaccinium reticulatum, cultivars from Hawaii

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Two new ohelo cultivars were selected from an open pollinated seedling population and released by USDA/ARS. ‘Kilauea’ has a low spreading canopy with light green leaves, bright crimson shoots and buds, and orange to salmon berries. Average monthly berry production of ‘Kilauea’ was 14 grams per pla...

Registration of ‘Ok101’ Wheat

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‘Ok101’ (Reg. no. CV-932, PI 631493) is a hard red winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) developed cooperatively by the Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station and the USDA-ARS, and released in March 2001. Ok101 was released for its high tolerance to acidic soil, broad adaptation to both dual-purpose...

Registration of ‘Ok102’ Wheat

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‘Ok102’ (Reg. no. CV-941, PI 632635) is a hard red winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) developed cooperatively by the Oklahoma Agric. Exp. Stn. and the USDA-ARS. Ok102 was released in March 2002, primarily on the basis of its resistance to several foliar diseases, excellent milling quality, and desi...

Building a lasting partnership - small-scale canola biodiesel experiment may go big

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In 2006, the Colville Confederated Tribes (CCT) of north central Washington, with assistance from USDA-ARS, hand-planted several rows of spring canola in Omak, Washington on Tribal land. The objective of this small-scale experiment was to determine if canola could be grown in this region to ultimate...

The use of automated weather stations for irrigation management in the Jordan Valley

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We discuss an irrigation management information system approach developed by NCARE researchers with the help of USDA-ARS. The system is capable of providing farmers with online crop water requirements based on automated meteorological data published on the internet (www.ncare.gov.jo/imis, and www.m...

Soil water sensing for climate change studies; Applicability of COSMOS and local sensor networks

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Soil water sensors are used to characterize water content in the near-surface, the root zone and below for agricultural and ecosystem management, but only a few are capable of sensing soil volumes larger than a few hundred liters. Scientists with the USDA-ARS Conservation & Production Research Labor...

Assessment of Genetic and Molecular Approaches for the Prediction of Wheat Quality

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Assessment of genetic and molecular approaches for the prediction of wheat quality. R.A. Graybosch, USDA-ARS, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A. Over the past four decades, the field of plant breeding and genetics has been revolutionized by technological advances in the areas of DNA manipulation and evaluation. Fo...

USDA,ARS Areawide project on anaerobic soil disinfestation

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Initial research allowed for the development of a “standard” anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD) consisting of CBL at the rate of 22 Mg ha-1, molasses (Agricultural Carbon Source, Terra Feed, LLC, Plant City, FL) at 13.9 m3 ha-1, applied under Vaporsafe® Totally Impermeable Film (TIF™, Raven Industr...

Reduced-in-sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies: Functionality of Sucralose/Maltodextrin: Isomalt Blends

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Reduced-in-sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies: Functionality of Sucralose/Maltodextrin:Isomalt Blends Rebecca McKemie1, Ruthann B. Swanson1, Elizabeth M. Savage2 and Hong Zhuang2 1University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30605; 2ARS-USDA, Athens, GA 30605 Modified baked product availability may reduce simple ...

Genome regions' putative association with Fusarium wilt or root-knot nematode resistance in cotton.

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Around 1,300 microsatellite or SSR markers [named MUSB001 – MUSB1316 (600 informative)] were developed at the USDA-ARS, WICSRU Shafter, CA with the support of cooperators and Cotton Incorporated. These MUSB markers were developed from BAC-end DNA sequence information from a previously developed BAC ...

Cover Crop Chart: An Intuitive Educational Resource for Extension Professionals

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Liebig, Mark A.; Johnson, Holly; Archer, David; Hendrickson, John; Nichols, Kristine; Schmer, Marty; Tanaka, Don

2013-01-01

Interest in cover crops by agricultural producers has increased the need for information regarding the suitability of crops for addressing different production and natural resource goals. To help address this need, staff at the USDA-ARS Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory developed a decision aid called the Cover Crop Chart (CCC). Visually…

The National Sedimentation Laboratory: 50 years of soil and water research in a changing environment

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The papers in this issue are based on selected presentations made at a symposium convened to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Sedimentation Laboratory (NSL) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), located in Oxford, Mississippi. ...

From the Lab Bench: Why the heat and cold stresses on tall fescue pasture

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A column is written to provide information on why cattle that graze toxic endophyte infected tall fescue are vulnerable to both heat and cold stress. Peer reviewed research conducted by scientists at the USDA-ARS Forage-Animal Production Research Unit demonstrated that ergot alkaloids produced by t...

Germplasm morgue or gold mine? Enhancing the value of plant genetic resource collections for plant breeding

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Genetic diversity is the raw material that plant breeders require to develop cultivars that are productive, nutritious, pest and stress tolerant, and water and nutrient use efficient. The USDA-ARS National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) contains a wealth of genetic diversity, including improved varie...

Physicochemical and adsorptive properties of fast-pyrolysis bio-chars and their steam activated counterparts

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Fast pyrolysis is rapid heating in the absence of oxygen resulting in decomposition of organic material. When applied to biomass, it produces bio-oil, bio-char and gas. The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the USDA has studied fluidized-bed fast pyrolysis of several bimoass including perenni...

Use of scanning electron microscopy in the speciation of Gliocephalotrichum spp. in rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum L.)

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Rambutan is a tropical tree fruit crop native to Malaysia. Worldwide, fruit rot is a limiting factor for fruit quality. In 2011, fruit rot was observed on rambutan at the USDA-ARS Tropical Agricultural Station in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, and was attributed to Gliocephalotrichum spp. Light microscopy (...

Progress in the paddy field

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Rice feeds around 3.5 billion people and provides a significant proportion of calories for many of the world’s poor. The USA is a major producer and exporter of rice. The USDA/ARS Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center (DBNRRC) is located in the heart of the southern USA rice growing region in A...