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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.

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.

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
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.

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.
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 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.

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

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 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.
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 ...
Aborting feedlot heifers with Alfaprostol

Keay, L.E.; Kiracofe, G.; Simon, M.; Riley, Jack G. (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station, 2010-12-15)

The effectiveness of alfaprostol in inducing abortion was tested in 93 pregnant heifers. Alfaprostol was injected intramuscularly, .7 mg per 100 pounds body weight. Twenty-four heifers were injected when they averaged 83 ...
Aborting feedlot heifers with Alfavet® or Bovilene®

Laudert, S.; Boyd, G.; Kuhl, Gerry L. (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service, 2010-12-03)

Alfavet® (alfaprostol), an experimental prostaglandin analog for inducing abortion in feedlot heifers, was evaluated for efficacy. Abortion was induced within 8 days following injection of 5 mg alfaprostol in 45 of 51 ...