Browsing by Author "Sword, Gregory"
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Fisher II, Adrian Leon (2017-07-21)Honey bees (Apis mellifera) have been experiencing an ongoing decline in population over the last half century despite their tremendous importance to agriculture. A variety of environmental pressures have been implicated ...
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Santiago Gonzalez, Jose Carlos (2022-11-07)Helicoverpa zea is a target pest of Bt transgenics with resistance to the Cry proteins produced in these crops. Evolved resistance to Cry proteins may accelerate selection for resistance against Vip3Aa, considered the only ...
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Xu, Jingjing; Pan, Wei; Zhang, Yingchao; Li, Yue; Wan, Guijun; Chen, Fajun; Sword, Gregory; Pan, Weidong (Biology Open, 2017)
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Fine, Benjamin Thomas (2015-12-11)Social behaviors in groups has been the subjects of hundreds of studies in a variety of research disciplines, including biology, physics, and robotics. In particular, flocking behaviors (commonly exhibited by birds and ...
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Hoang, Toan (2020-11-25)The Mormon Cricket (Anabrus simplex Haldeman) is a flightless katydid that is native to the United States. During favorable environmental conditions, their populations surge and these insects begin moving together in dense ...
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Garcia, Loriann C (2015-06-11)Herbivory is not always detrimental to plants. In some cases, herbivory can lead to overcompensation, whereby plants produce greater fitness or growth following damage. In order to improve ecologists understanding of ...
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Martin, Paxton Thomas (2019-05-02)The soybean plant, Glycine max, is a highly cultivated legume with great importance to the current United States economy. One of its major pests is the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni. The activity of this insect pest is ...
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Bennett, John S (2021-12-06)Infection of seed with two major ear rot pathogens of maize, Fusarium verticillioides and Aspergillus flavus, lead to high yield losses and detrimental health effects to humans and animals through the production of mycotoxins, ...
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Gonzales, John David (2019-08-29)Since the sugarcane aphid’s (SCA) introduction in the United States in 2013 many management strategies have been evaluated and used for its control. In this study we evaluated hybrid resistance through a field screening, ...
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Bokhutlo, Thethela (2020-08-27)Alteration of the flow regime may affect species distributions, mechanisms of community assembly, and patterns of energy flow within and between fluvial ecosystems. Changes in the periodicity and predictability of flows ...
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Black, Joseph Lee (2021-04-16)Insects challenged with a pathogen must respond with the appropriate level and type of immune response to maximize the likelihood of survival. They exhibit behavioral defenses, as well as humoral and cellular defenses, ...
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Page, Barret Baxter (2018-05-22)Cotton fleahopper (CFH) (Pseudatomoscelis seriatus) is an early season pest of upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum, L). Feeding damage results in abscission of young floral buds (squares), and consequently a delay in maturation ...
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Tondre, Braden (2022-04-22)This study examines agronomic cotton data collected from test plots in Azerbaijan conducted by researchers from Texas A&M University and AgroCenter, an Azerbaijani consulting agency. Research was used to improve the cotton ...
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Huntley, Jerry Wallace (2017-06-27)The biogeographical history of the Afro-tropical Guineo-Congolian lowland forests during the Plio-Pleistocene is characterized by pervasive fragmentation-coalescence cycling due to global climatic oscillations. Vicariance ...
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Deans, Carrie; Behmer, Spencer; Tessnow, Ashley; Tamez-Guerra, Patricia; Pusztai-Carey, Marianne; Sword, Gregory (Scientific Reports, 2017)
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Hancock, Zachary (2020-11-04)Phylogenetics in Space & the Evolution of the Haustoriidae is a dissertation in two volumes: 1) the systematics, biogeography, genome evolution, and phylogenetics of sand-burrowing amphipods of the family Haustoriidae; and ...
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Wang, Ken-Der (2018-11-01)Plants benefit from interactions with symbiotic microorganisms, with enhancements ranging from improved growth to activation of induced systemic resistance (ISR) against a broad range of pathogens. While pathogen-triggered ...
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Cuttiford, Louise Alison (2017-01-19)The Degree Day method allows the temperature-dependent growth of poikilothermic organisms to be measured within their upper and lower thermal limits. It has been used in agricultural and entomological sciences for more ...
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Woller, Derek Alexander (2017-12-12)The 27 flightless grasshopper species of the Puer Group (Orthoptera: Acrididae: Melanoplinae: Melanoplus) comprise a biological system of fascinating complexity in the southeastern U.S.A. that was heavily influenced by sea ...