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  Nutritional and greenhouse gas impacts of removing animals from US agriculture 

  White, Robin R.; Hall, Mary Beth (2017-11-28)

  As a major contributor to agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, it has been suggested that reducing animal agriculture or consumption of animal-derived foods may reduce GHGs and enhance food security. Because the ...
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  Short-term Forecasting Tools for Agricultural Nutrient Management 

  Easton, Zachary M.; Kleinman, Peter J. A.; Buda, Anthony R.; Goering, Dustin; Emberston, Nichole; Reed, Seann; Drohan, Patrick J.; Walter, M. Todd; Guinan, Pat; Lory, John A.; Sommerlot, Andrew R.; Sharpley, Andrew (2017-11)

  The advent of real-time, short-term farm management tools is motivated by the need to protect water quality above and beyond the general guidance offered by existing nutrient management plans. Advances in high-performance ...
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  Reviewing research priorities in weed ecology, evolution and management: a horizon scan 

  Neve, P.; Barney, J. N.; Buckley, Y.; Cousens, R. D.; Graham, S.; Jordan, N. R.; Lawton-Rauh, A.; Liebman, M.; Mesgaran, M. B.; Schut, M.; Shaw, J.; Storkey, J.; Baraibar, B.; Baucom, R. S.; Chalak, M.; Childs, D. Z.; Christensen, S.; Eizenberg, H.; Fernandez-Quintanilla, C.; French, K.; Harsch, M.; Heijting, S.; Harrison, L.; Loddo, D.; Macel, M.; Maczey, N.; Merotto, A., Jr.; Mortensen, D.; Necajeva, J.; Peltzer, D. A.; Recasens, J.; Renton, M.; Riemens, M.; Sonderskov, M.; Williams, M. (2018-08)

  Weedy plants pose a major threat to food security, biodiversity, ecosystem services and consequently to human health and wellbeing. However, many currently used weed management approaches are increasingly unsustainable. ...
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  Comparison of the USSES terminal-sire and Siremax composite breeds with the Suffolk breed as terminal sires in an extensive production system: carcass characteristics 

  McKibben, Heather N.; Notter, David R.; Stewart, Whitney C.; Means, Warrie J.; Pierce, Natalie L.; Taylor, Joshua B. (2018-09)
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  Brief Overview: Field Measurements of Soil Cracks 

  Stewart, Ryan D.; Abou Najm, Majdi R. (2018-05)
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  Seasonal dynamics of cyanobacteria and eukaryotic phytoplankton in a multiple-reservoir recycling irrigation system 

  Kong, Ping; Richardson, Patricia; Hong, Chuanxue (2019-09-10)

  Abstract Background Agricultural runoff recycling systems are manmade aquatic ecosystems of growing significance to global water sustainability, crop health, and production. ...
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  Evaluating Career Development Success in Student Athletes: A Literature Review 

  Camp, Rachel (Virginia Tech, 2019-09-06)

  The literature review will examine student-athletes preparedness for career preparedness after they retire and graduate. After years of commitment, retirement from sport is expected, whether that is due to injury, personal ...
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  De novo formation of an aggregation pheromone precursor by an isoprenyl diphosphate synthase-related terpene synthase in the harlequin bug 

  Lancaster, Jason; Khrimian, Ashot; Young, Sharon; Lehner, Bryan; Luck, Katrin; Wallingford, Anna; Ghosh, Saikat Kumar B.; Zerbe, Philipp; Muchlinski, Andrew; Marek, Paul E.; Sparks, Michael E.; Tokuhisa, James G.; Tittiger, Claus; Koellner, Tobias G.; Weber, Donald C.; Gundersen-Rindal, Dawn E.; Kuhar, Thomas P.; Tholl, Dorothea (2018-09-11)

  Insects use a diverse array of specialized terpene metabolites as pheromones in intraspecific interactions. In contrast to plants and microbes, which employ enzymes called terpene synthases (TPSs) to synthesize terpene ...
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  Transformation and regeneration of the holoparasitic plant Phelipanche aegyptiaca 

  Fernández-Aparicio, Mónica; Rubiales, Diego; Bandaranayake, Pradeepa C.G.; Yoder, John I.; Westwood, James H. (BMC, 2011)

  Background: Transformation and subsequent regeneration of holoparasitic plants has never been reported, in part due to challenges in developing transformation protocols, but also because regeneration of obligate parasites ...
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  Improved reference genome of Aedes aegypti informs arbovirus vector control 

  Matthews, Benjamin J.; Dudchenko, Olga; Kingan, Sarah B.; Koren, Sergey; Antoshechkin, Igor; Crawford, Jacob E.; Glassford, William J.; Herre, Margaret; Redmond, Seth N.; Rose, Noah H.; Weedall, Gareth D.; Wu, Yang; Batra, Sanjit S.; Brito-Sierra, Carlos A.; Buckingham, Steven D.; Campbell, Corey L.; Chan, Saki; Cox, Eric; Evans, Benjamin R.; Fansiri, Thanyalak; Filipovic, Igor; Fontaine, Albin; Gloria-Soria, Andrea; Hall, Richard; Joardar, Vinita S.; Jones, Andrew K.; Kay, Raissa G. G.; Kodali, Vamsi K.; Lee, Joyce; Lycett, Gareth J.; Mitchell, Sara N.; Muehling, Jill; Murphy, Michael R.; Omer, Arina D.; Partridge, Frederick A.; Peluso, Paul; Aiden, Aviva Presser; Ramasamy, Vidya; Rasic, Gordana; Roy, Sourav; Saavedra-Rodriguez, Karla; Sharan, Shruti; Sharma, Atashi; Smith, Melissa Laird; Turner, Joe; Weakley, Allison M.; Zhao, Zhilei; Akbari, Omar S.; Black, William C.; Cao, Han; Darby, Alistair C.; Hill, Catherine A.; Johnston, J. Spencer; Murphy, Terence D.; Raikhel, Alexander S.; Sattelle, David B.; Sharakhov, Igor V.; White, Bradley J.; Zhao, Li; Aiden, Erez Lieberman; Mann, Richard S.; Lambrechts, Louis; Powell, Jeffrey R.; Sharakhova, Maria V.; Tu, Zhijian; Robertson, Hugh M.; McBride, Carolyn S.; Hastic, Alex R.; Korlach, Jonas; Neafsey, Daniel E.; Phillippy, Adam M.; Vosshall, Leslie B. (2018-11-22)

  Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infect more than 400 million people each year with dangerous viral pathogens including dengue, yellow fever, Zika and chikungunya. Progress in understanding the biology of mosquitoes and ...
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  Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation to Prioritize TMDL Pollutant Allocations 

  Mishra, Anurag; Ahmadisharaf, Ebrahim; Benham, Brian L.; Wolfe, Mary Leigh; Leman, Scotland C.; Gallagher, Daniel L.; Reckhow, Kenneth H.; Smith, Eric P. (2018-12)

  This study presents a probabilistic framework that considers both the water quality improvement capability and reliability of alternative total maximum daily load (TMDL) pollutant allocations. Generalized likelihood ...
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  Comparison of Two Alternative Methods for Developing TMDLs to Address Sediment Impairments 

  Wallace, Carlington W.; Benham, Brian L.; Yagow, Eugene R.; Gallagher, Daniel L. (2018-12)

  While excessive sediment is a leading cause of aquatic life use impairments in free-flowing rivers in Virginia, there is no numeric sediment-water quality criterion. As a result, total maximum daily load (TMDL) sediment ...
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  Sequential and differential interaction of assembly factors during nitrogenase MoFe protein maturation 

  Jimenez-Vicente, Emilio; Yang, Zhi-Yong; Keith Ray, W.; Echavarri-Erasun, Carlos; Cash, Valerie L.; Rubio, Luis M.; Seefeldt, Lance C.; Dean, Dennis R. (2018-06-22)

  Nitrogenases reduce atmospheric nitrogen, yielding the basic inorganic molecule ammonia. The nitrogenase MoFe protein contains two cofactors, a [7Fe-9S-Mo-C-homocitrate] active-site species, designated FeMo-cofactor, and ...
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  Cetylpyridinium chloride direct spray treatments reduce Salmonella on cantaloupe rough surfaces 

  Saucedo-Alderete, Raul O.; Eifert, Joseph D.; Boyer, Renee R.; Williams, Robert C.; Welbaum, Gregory E. (2018-08)

  Cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) solutions (0, 0.5, or 1.0%) were applied to cantaloupe (Athena and Hale's Best Jumbo cultivars) rind plugs, either before or after inoculation with a broth culture of Salmonella Michigan ...
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  MetaCompare: a computational pipeline for prioritizing environmental resistome risk 

  Oh, Min; Pruden, Amy; Chen, Chaoqi; Heath, Lenwood S.; Xia, Kang; Zhang, Liqing (2018-07)

  The spread of antibiotic resistance is a growing public health concern. While numerous studies have highlighted the importance of environmental sources and pathways of the spread of antibiotic resistance, a systematic means ...
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  Factors affecting farmers' willingness and ability to adopt and retain vitamin A-rich varieties of orange-fleshed sweet potato in Mozambique 

  Jenkins, Mica; Shanks, Carmen Byker; Brouwer, Roland; Houghtaling, Bailey (2018-12)

  The addition of orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) to the food environment is an effective nutrition-sensitive agricultural approach to improve vitamin A intakes. However, the adoption of this biofortified crop merits ...
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  Application of biochar to soils may result in plant contamination and human cancer risk due to exposure of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons 

  Wang, Jian; Xia, Kang; Waigi, Michael Gatheru; Gao, Yanzheng; Odinga, Emmanuel Stephen; Ling, Wanting; Liu, Juan (2018-12)

  Biochars are added to soil to improve agronomic yield. This greenhouse- and field-scale study evaluated poly cyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contamination in 35 commercial and laboratory-produced biochars, and assessed ...
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  Structuring and Supporting Excellence in Undergraduate Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education: The ASBMB Degree Accreditation Program 

  Moore, Victoria Del Gaizo; Loertscher, Jennifer; Dean, Diane M.; Bailey, Cheryl P.; Kennelly, Peter J.; Wolfson, Adele J. (2018-12-01)
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  Foliar application of Fe resonates to the belowground rhizosphere microbiome in Andean landrace potatoes 

  Xiao, Hua; Rodrigues, Richard R.; Bonierbale, Merideth; Veilleux, Richard; Williams, Mark (2018-10)

  Iron (Fe) is a crucial nutrient for plant growth (e.g. chlorophyll production), and though it is one of the most abundant elements in soil, very low bioavailability can limit plant growth. Studies indicate that many soil ...
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  Cyberbiosecurity Challenges of Pathogen Genome Databases 

  Vinatzer, Boris A.; Heath, Lenwood S.; Almohri, Hussain MJ J.; Stulberg, Michael J.; Lowe, Christopher; Li, Song (Frontiers, 2019-05-15)

  Pathogen detection, identification, and tracking is shifting from non-molecular methods, DNA fingerprinting methods, and single gene methods to methods relying on whole genomes. Viral Ebola and influenza genome data are ...

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