Changes in the federal farm program, in rainfall pattern and quantity, and
increased incidence of herbicide resistant weeds and diseases have generated
increased interest in spring grains in the Pacific Northwest. However, spring grains
have traditionally been treated as minor crops in this region, thus little research has
been done...
The efficiencies of wet sieving/sucrose
centrifugation (WS/SC) recovery of Pratylenchus penetrans
(59 %), Paratylenchus sp., (80 %), and Criconemella
xenoplax (66 %) were established. Baermann funnels (BF)
recovered significantly more P. penetrans (p = 0.01) and
significantly less (p = 0.01) C. xenoplax than did WS/SC.
While densities of P....
Oregon State Federal Credit Union (OSU FCU) members' attitudes
toward proposed services, and the association between the importance
rating of a "common bond" (loyalty) and use of selected services of
the OSU FCU were examined. The study utilized data from the member
survey commissioned in 1982 by the OSU FCU...
A new in situ fluorometer for the detection of oceanic photosynthetic pigment fluorescence is described.
Emission spectra from 546 to 733 nm are recorded for each of three different visible excitation bands ten
times a second. A Spectralon cell is used to improve the excitation coupling to and the collection...
The first seagoing test of a prototype laser/fiber-optic system for in situ detection of ocean chlorophyll fluorescence is described. Radiation at 488 nm originating from a shipboard argon laser was transmitted through 20 of 200-µm core optical fiber to the distal tip mounted on the microstructure profiler, the Rapid Sampling...
We constructed an experimental apparatus that used lasers to provide the probe beams for measuring the transient absorption kinetics of bacterioplankton that contain proteorhodopsin, a microbial protein that binds retinal and is analogous to animal rhodopsin. With this approach we were able to observe photocycles characteristic of functioning retinylidene ion...
The implementation and characterization of backscatter and forward-scatter fiber-optic fluorescence sensors attached to a microstructure profiling instrument are described. By using an optical multichannel array detector to record emission spectra, eight profiles per hour of chlorophyll fluorescence spectra at 2-cm intervals can be obtained throughout the upper 100 m of...
A method was devised and tested for rapid and quantitative
identification of microbial flora in fresh seafoods. The rapid
identification of large numbers of isolates was made possible by
(1) a simplified identification scheme established by reference
culture studies and from the known reactions of microorganisms
reported in the literature,...