Phytoseiulus persimilis (Acari: Phytoseiidae) is a specialist predator on tetranychid mites, especially on the twospotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae). The foraging environment of the predatory ...

Members of the genus Fusarium are widely distributed in many geographic regions of the world. This genus includes plant pathogens of many important cereal crops, e.g., wheat, maize, rice and sorghum, and of other native ...

Big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii Vitman) is an ecologically dominant grass of the North American grasslands with precipitation-dependent productivity. However, climatic predictions for big bluestem’s dominant range in ...

Segregation distortion describes the transmission of an allele or alleles of a heterozygous locus at a higher frequency than expected in a Mendelian ratio. From the organism's view, segregation distortion is the preferential ...

Genomic information for lepidopteran insects, particularly agricultural pest species, is very limited but urgently needed due to their economic importance and biodiversity. The huge economic losses ($ 1-2 billons / year) ...

In response to increasing concerns over release of anthropogenic greenhouse gases the Arbuckle saline aquifer in south-central Kansas has been proposed as a potential site for geologic storage for CO2. Two wells (KGS 1-32 ...

Mass poisoning of arsenic (As) has affected roughly 60 million people in the Bengal Basin (Bangladesh and West Bengal, India) and 43 million people alone in West Bengal. Elevated levels of Manganese (Mn) is another alarming ...

The Senegal River valley and delta (SRVD) are affected by long term climate variability. Indicators of these climatic shifts include a rainfall deficit, warmer temperatures, sea level rise, floods, and drought. These ...

Jackson County, Kansas is situated on the west side of the Forest City Basin, location of the first oil discovery west of the Mississippi River (KGS), Production in the area is predominately from the Viola Limestone, and ...

A representation of a quiver [Gamma] over a commutative ring R assigns an R-module to each vertex and an R-linear map to each arrow. In this dissertation, we consider R = k[t]/(t[superscript]n) and all R-free representations ...