"This 2-year project has been helpful in characterizing nonstructural carbohydrates in cool-season grasses. We have learned a lot about the normal fluctuations seen across environments and, more specifically, variations due to genetic differences. The main conclusions are:
1. Percentages of nonstructural carbohydrate are highly variable throughout the growing season and...
The structural component compositions of thirty nine non-commercial Pacific
Northwest grasses were analyzed in order to develop a database of the grasses that
may have application in bioconversion processes. The samples were chosen based on
near infrared reflectance (NIR) data that suggested this group of grasses, collectively,
was representative of...
Published July 1987. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
Successful conservation management requires an understanding of how species respond to intervention. Native and exotic species may respond differently to management interventions due to differences arising directly from their native or exotic origin (i.e., provenance) or from differences in life-history or phylogenetic lineage that are associated with provenance. Thus, selection...
Concentration of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere has increased over the past 150 years. Because CO₂ is one of a number of radiatively active gases, there is concern that global temperatures will rise and climatic conditions will change. Recent research indicates northern hemisphere forests may currently be accumulating carbon...
Cereal cyst nematodes reduce yields of wheat, barley, and oats in the Pacific Northwest states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. It is estimated that these pests reduce wheat profitability in these states by at least $3.4 million annually. This publication describes the distribution, biology, damage, management, and detection of cereal...
Published August 1983. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
The material in this supplement is prepared to update and broaden that
originally published in 1983 as Oregon State University Agricultural Experiment
Station Bulletin 659, Adjusting and Forecasting Herbage Yields in the Intermountain
Big Sagebrush Region of the Steppe Province. The supplement
consists of five sections. Section 1 adds data...
Published May 1934. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog