Browsing Colleges and Schools by Department "Soil and Crop Sciences"
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(2022-07-26)Grassland comprises approximately 40.5% of terrestrial land area, which is around 5.25 billion ha in total. Grasslands are vital, multi-functional ecosystems for effective nutrient cycling, and habitat and forage for ...
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(2013-01-17)Fibrolytic enzymes and microbial inoculants have potential to improve the value of feedstuff and feedstock. An experiment was conducted to determine the nutritive value, ensiling characteristics, and in situ disappearance ...
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(2019-11-18)High-throughput phenotyping technologies can generate large volumes of data at low costs and are useful in a wide range of plant sciences, including plant breeding. Many phenotyping technologies increase the rate of currently ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Epigenetic regulation is a mechanism by which heritable changes in gene expression are controlled by chromatin status rather than primary DNA sequence. Changes in chromatin structure affect accessibility of DNA elements ...
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(2023-04-21)Poor soil management limits the soil functions of water infiltration and storage and enhances water and soil losses. Amidst recurring droughts and declining water availability, improved soil management practices such as ...
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(2012-07-16)Sweet sorghum is a highly versatile C4 grass noted for its improved drought tolerance and water use efficiency relative to sugarcane. Sweet sorghum is well suited for ethanol production due to a rapid growth rate, high ...
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(2013-12-10)Best management practices (BMPs) aim to reduce bacterial loading caused by grazing cattle. Relatively little is known about the effectiveness of alternative shade, alternative water, rip-rap, and prescribed grazing as ...
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(2021-07-14)Many independent events led by public institutions significantly increased grain sorghum yield in the US, including the development of grain sorghum hybrids and the introgression of exotic germplasm. Nonetheless, the rates ...
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(2016-12-01)The semi-arid Texas High Plains (THP) is one of the intensively managed agricultural regions in the United States (US) where cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is a major crop. The THP region produces about a quarter of the ...
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(2021-05-19)Proximal soil sensors, such as a VisNIR spectrometer mounted into a penetrometer, are being developed as tools to measure soil properties in situ with the goal of providing real-time and spatially explicit soil characterization ...
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(2023-02-15)Genomic prediction has shown to be an effective tool for plant and animal breeders, allowing for prediction of phenotypes and breeding values. For crops that have vast acres planted in the United States, such as maize, ...
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(2020-07-01)Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) is an important feed and food grain in semi-arid regions of the world. Recent food trends in the United States have made grain sorghum a food grain crop of interest to end-users and food ...
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(2013-05-02)Bacterial contamination due to excessive levels of bacteria is a confounding problem and remediation of impaired watersheds relies on the detection of fecal indicator bacteria and then assessing the source of said bacteria. ...
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(2022-08-17)The Texas High Plains (THP) is one of the most agriculturally productive regions of the world, however, the climatic conditions of the area can result in significant wind erosion exemplified by the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. ...
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(2015-11-30)As population continues to rise and development continues, there is increasing pressure for the production of food on a decreasing amount of land as well as an increased need for combustible fuel. Biofuels produced from ...
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(2018-05-09)Urban lotic surface waters have been extensively studied due to reported increases in their alkalization and dissolved organic carbon (DOC). However, urban lentic surface waters, which are subject to the same United States ...
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(2017-02-17)Mycotoxin contamination of grains is a serious global problem with feed stocks often being contaminated with multiple, different mycotoxins. Many studies have successfully isolated microorganisms or used chemical and ...
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(2015-08-12)Stem lodging is a complex and is a limiting factor on bioenergy sorghum yield worldwide. Stem lodging is defined as mechanical failure at the stem caused by external forces due to wind or rain. Current lodging ratings are ...
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(2013-08-05)Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L., Moench) is the fifth most important cereal crop in the world and represents an important source of food, feed and energy in several countries. Recently, there has been an increasing interest ...
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(2022-09-13)Rice is an essential food crop providing the daily caloric intake for over 50% of the world’s population. Flowering is one of the most sensitive stages of rice growth and is highly variable among varieties and across ...