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Vitamin E effects on sterility of White Leghorn males following prolonged vitamin E deficiency

Creator:

Friedrichsen, Janet Valerie

Abstract:

One group of four adult White Leghorn male chickens was fed a diet containing 7.3% linoleic acid and 32.4 mg/ kg of added vitamin E (group IV) for 50 weeks which was designated as the positive control. A second lot (group I) containing 14 males received the same level of...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Synoptic influences on the evolution of a severe hailstorm environment

Creator:

Duker, Dick C.

Abstract:

Two summertime days were investigated, 27 and 28 June 1973, to observe the changes in the environment that led to the severe hailstorm on 28 June in the National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE) network, Colorado. Within the network thermodynamic analyses revealed the 28th to have: (1) Above-average low-level moisture. (2)...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Hardiness-maturity relations in red-osier dogwood (Cornus stolonifera Michx.)

Creator:

Nissila, Peter Carl

Abstract:

Red-osier dogwood plants were grown outdoors in a lathhouse and under two temperature regimes in growth chambers to determine the time of vegetative maturity, the transition between summer and winter dormancy. Xylem water potential (XWP), tissue moisture content, ethylene and ethane production, and electrical impedance were used to try to...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis