Pesticides can be effective in controlling pests, but they can also be dangerous to pets. This publication describes hazards to pets from use of molluscicides, insecticides aimed at fleas and ticks, rodenticides, and herbicides. There are also descriptions of ways to control these pests without using pesticides. The publication is...
Volunteer winter wheat (Triticum aestivum 'Daws')
severely suppressed growth of fall-planted alfalfa
(Medicago sativa (L.) 'Vernal') seedlings. Wheat
competition began soon after alfalfa emerged and continued
until the first forage harvest the following May. Alfalfa
yield at the first cutting was reduced by 1% for each day
volunteer wheat was...
Microbial adaptation to environmental conditions is a complex process, including acquisition of positive traits through horizontal gene transfer or the modification of existing genes through duplication and/or mutation. In this study, we examined the adaptation of a Pseudomonas fluorescens isolate (R124) from the nutrient-limited mineral environment of a silica cave...
The purpose of this work was to develop a dynamic partial order model of II electrolyte solutions which avoids inconsistencies present in the Debye-1-Iuckel and 1n related theories. It is shown that our results are consistent with activity coefficient data in aqueous electrolyte solutions. The main features of our work...
In the last three decades we have learned a great deal about microbes in subsurface environments. Once, these habitats were rarely examined, perhaps because so much of the life that we are concerned with exists at the surface and seems to pace its metabolic and evolutionary rhythms with the overt...
Bacterioplankton of the SAR11 clade are the most abundant microorganisms in marine systems,
usually representing 25% or more of the total bacterial cells in seawater worldwide. SAR11 is divided
into subclades with distinct spatiotemporal distributions (ecotypes), some of which appear to be
specific to deep water. Here we examine the...
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Junier T, Zdobnov EM (2010). The Newick utilities: high-throughput phylogenetic tree
Finite, uncertain, and increasingly expensive
energy resources require a better understanding of energy
utilization in all sectors of the national economy including agriculture. A significant portion of energy used
in agriculture is required for the manufacturing, installation, transporting, and operation of irrigation systems.
Quantification of the amounts of energy used...
Skeletal muscles provide several functions, including, yet not limited to, voluntary body movement and locomotion, posture and body position, and soft tissue support. Skeletal muscles also play a role in metabolism, requiring energy to facilitate contraction. Each skeletal muscle serves a different purpose despite seeming to perform the same task....