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1. The value of trace minerals in a wintering and fattening ration. 2. Self-feeding grain in dry lot versus self-feeding on bluestem pasture.

Baker, F.H.; Smith, E.F.; Menzies, C.S.; Cox, R.F. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 2012-01-04)

Thirty choice Hereford steer calves, 10 head to a lot, are being used. Eight steers of each lot were obtained in a shipment from the Lanker Ranch near Medicine Lodge, Kan. The remaining two steers of each lot were ...
1. The value of trace minerals in a wintering and fattening ration. 2. Self-feeding grain in drylot vs. self-feeding on bluestem pasture.

Smith, E.F.; Cox, R.F.; Baker, F.H. (Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, 2012-01-04)

Thirty head of good quality Hereford steer calves, 10 head to a lot, were used in the study. They were the lightest calves of a shipment of 220 steer calves from the Brite Ranch at Marfa, Texas. They cost 29 cents a ...
2000 Report on Grains Research and Educational Programs

Kansas State University, Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service. (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service., )

We are pleased to provide this update on research and educational activities made possible with checkoff funds from the Kansas Corn, Grain Sorghum, Soybean, and Wheat Commissions. The Commissions provided $2,223,926 in ...
A comparison of nitrogen utilization and urea metabolism between Tibetan and fine-wool sheep

Zhou, J. W.; Mi, J. D.; Titgemeyer, Evan C.; Guo, X. S.; Ding, L. M.; Wang, H. C.; Qiu, Q.; Li, Z. P.; Long, R. J.
A Comprehensive Analysis of Alternative Splicing in Paleopolyploid Maize

Mei, W. B.; Liu, Sanzhen Z.; Schnable, J. C.; Yeh, C. T.; Springer, N. M.; Schnable, P. S.; Barbazuk, W. B. (2017-05-10)

Identifying and characterizing alternative splicing (AS) enables our understanding of the biological role of transcript isoform diversity. This study describes the use of publicly available RNA-Seq data to identify and ...
A Consensus Map in Cultivated Hexaploid Oat Reveals Conserved Grass Synteny with Substantial Subgenome Rearrangement

Chaffin, A. S.; Huang, Y. F.; Smith, S.; Bekele, W. A.; Babiker, E.; Gnanesh, B. N.; Foresman, B. J.; Blanchard, S. G.; Jay, J. J.; Reid, R. W.; Wight, C. P.; Chao, S. M.; Oliver, R.; Islamovic, E.; Kolb, F. L.; McCartney, C.; Fetch, J. W. M.; Beattie, A. D.; Bjornstad, A.; Bonman, J. M.; Langdon, T.; Howarth, C. J.; Brouwer, C. R.; Jellen, E. N.; Klos, K. E.; Poland, Jesse A.; Hsieh, T. F.; Brown, R.; Jackson, E.; Schlueter, J. A.; Tinker, N. A. (2016-07-01)

Hexaploid oat (Avena sativa L., 2n = 6x = 42) is a member of the Poaceae family and has a large genome (similar to 12.5 Gb) containing 21 chromosome pairs from three ancestral genomes. Physical rearrangements among parental ...
A Decade Study of Wild Soybean (Glycine. Soja)

Xu, Bao
A haplotype map of allohexaploid wheat reveals distinct patterns of selection on homoeologous genomes

Jordan, K. W.; Wang, Shichen; Lun, Y.; Gardiner, L. J.; MacLachlan, R.; Hucl, P.; Wiebe, K.; Wong, D.; Forrest, K. L.; Sharpe, A. G.; Sidebottom, C. H. D.; Hall, N.; Toomajian, Christopher; Close, T.; Dubcovsky, J.; Akhunova, Alina; Akhunov, Eduard (2015-02-26)
A High Resolution Radiation Hybrid Map of Wheat Chromosome 4A

Balcarkova, B.; Frenkel, Z.; Skopova, M.; Abrouk, M.; Kumar, A.; Chao, S. M.; Kianian, S. F.; Akhunov, Eduard; Korol, A. B.; Dolezel, J.; Valarik, M. (2017-01-10)

Bread wheat has a large and complex allohexaploid genome with low recombination level at chromosome centromeric and peri-centromeric regions. This significantly hampers ordering of markers, contigs of physical maps and ...
A High-Density SNP and SSR Consensus Map Reveals Segregation Distortion Regions in Wheat

Li, C. L.; Bai, Guihua H.; Chao, S. M.; Wang, Z. H. (2016-03-08)

Segregation distortion is a widespread phenomenon in plant and animal genomes and significantly affects linkage map construction and identification of quantitative trait loci (QTLs). To study segregation distortion in ...
A Preliminary Study on Spatial Distribution Pattern of Propylaea japonica Thunberg and its Application in Soybean Fields

Zhang, Xiao Bo; Wang, Xiao Li; Zhu, Yu; Li, Ting Xu; Zhang, Bai Xiang
A proposed mechanism for texture proterty of woody breast in broilers

Welter, Amelia; Wu, Wan Jun; O'Quinn, Travis G.; Houser, Terry A.; Boyle, Elizabeth A.; Chao, Michael D.; Boyle, Daniel L.; Bowker, B.; Zhuang, H. (2019-05-09)

OBJECTIVE: Woody breast is a myopathy observed in chicken breast meat (Pectoralis major) characterized by its tough and rubbery texture. However, the exact causation of woody breast texture is still unknown. The objective ...
A soil column study to evaluate treatment of trace elements from saline industrial wastewater

Paredez, Jose M.; Mladenov, Natalie; Galkaduwa, Madhubhashini B.; Hettiarachchi, Ganga M.; Kluitenberg, Gerard J.; Hutchinson, Stacy L. (2017-07-31)

Industrial wastewater from the flue gas desulfurization (FGD) process is characterized by the presence of trace elements of concern, such as selenium (Se) and boron (B) and relatively high salinity. To simulate treatment ...
A Study on Optimum Control of Diseases and Insect Pests on Summer Soybean

Wang, Yuzheng; Ma, Lun; Wang, Jizang; Ren, Xizhou; Zhu, Wanliang
A Study on the Damage and Economic Threshold of the Soybean Aphid at the Seedling Stage

Wang, Xibei; Fang, Yihao; Lin, Zhizhong; Zhang, Lirong; Wang, Huadi
A supplement containing multiple types of gluconeogenic substrates alters intake but not productivity of heat-stressed Afshari lambs

Mahjoubi, E.; Amanlou, H.; Yazdi, M. H.; Aghaziarati, N.; Noori, G. R.; Vahl, Christopher I.; Bradford, Barry J.; Baumgard, L. H.

Thirty-two Afshari lambs were used in a completely randomized design with a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments to evaluate a nutritional supplement designed to provide multiple gluconeogenic precursors during heat ...
A taxonomic revision of the subfamily Tillinae Leach sensu lato (Coleoptera, Cleridae) in the New World

Burke, Alan; Zolnerowich, Gregory (2017-12-07)

The subfamily Tillinae Leach is represented by 12 genera in the New World. In this study, eight of these genera are revised. A diagnosis and redescription of the species of Araeodontia Barr, Barrotillus Rifkind, Bogcia ...
A View from Above: Using Images from Drones to Identify Insects

Workman, Megan; McCornack, Brian (2018-12-14)

The use of unmanned aircraft systems, or UAS (a.k.a. drones), in Agriculture has increased with improvements in technology. Using UAS to scout fields can decrease the amount of time spent per field, allowing more ground ...
A whole-genome shotgun approach for assembling and anchoring the hexaploid bread wheat genome

Chapman, J. A.; Mascher, M.; Buluç, A.; Barry, K.; Georganas, E.; Session, A.; Strnadova, V.; Jenkins, J.; Sehgal, Sunish K.; Oliker, L.; Schmutz, J.; Yelick, K. A.; Scholz, U.; Waugh, R.; Poland, Jesse A. (2015-01-31)
Ability of low profile cross-ventilated freestall barns to improve environmental conditions for dairy cattle

Smith, John F., 1962-; Harner, Joseph P.; Brouk, Michael J. (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, 2010-11-29)

Recently, there has been interest in constructing mechanical ventilation with evaporative pads to improve the environmental conditions for cows during periods of heat stress. Low profile cross-ventilated freestalls with ...