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Arkansas
Agricultural Experiment Station, University
of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Dale
Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
A
newsletter for faculty, staff and students
January-February 2005 • Vol. 31, No. 1
Articles Published
Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness
Rainey, D.V., and O. Murova. 2004. Factors Influencing Education Achievement. Appl. Econ. 36:2397-2404.
Agricultural and Extension Education
Pate, M.L., G.W. Wardlow and D.M. Johnson. 2004. Effects of Thinking Aloud Pair Problem Solving on the Troubleshooting Performance of Undergraduate Agriculture Students in a Power Technology Course. J. Agri. Educ. 45(4):1-11.
Animal Science
Brown, A.H. Jr., P.K. Camfield, Z.B. Johnson, L.Y. Rakes, F.W. Pohlman, C.J. Brown, B.A. Sandelin and R.T. Baublits. 2005. Interaction of Beef Growth Type x Production System for Carcass Traits of Steers. Asian-Aust. J. Anim. Sci. 18(2):259-266.
Scarbrough, D.A., W.K. Coblentz, J.B. Humphry, K.P. Coffey, T.J. Sauer, J.A. Jennings, T.C. Daniel, J.E. Turner and D.W. Kellogg. 2004. Estimating Losses of Dry Matter from Simulated Rainfall on Bermudagrass and Orchardgrass Forages Using Cell Wall Components as Markers. Agron. J. 96:1680-1687.
Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences
Fitt, G.P., P.J. Wakelyn, J.McD. Stewart, D. Roupakias, J. Pages, M. Giband, Y. Zafar, K. Hake and C. James. 2004. Report of the Second Expert Panel on Biotechnology of Cotton. Washington, D.C.:International Cotton Advisory Committee.
Zhang, J., J.M. Stewart and T. Wang. 2005. Linkage Analysis between Gametophytic Restorer Rf2 Gene and Genetic Markers in Cotton. Crop Sci. 45:147-156.
Srivastava, V., and D.W. Ow. 2004. Marker-Free Site-Specific Gene Integration in Plants. Trends in Biotechnology 12:627-630.
Radhakrishnan, P., and V. Srivastava. 2005. Utility of the FLP-FRT Recombination System for Genetic Manipulation of Rice. Plant Cell Rep. (online first).
Entomology
Austin, J.W., A.L. Szalanski and M.T. Messenger. 2004. Mitochondrial DNA Variation and Distribution of the Subterranean Termite Genus Reticulitermes (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) in Arkansas and Louisiana. Florida Entomol. 87(4):473-480.
McElroy, S.M., A.L. Szalanski, T. McKay, A.J. Bermudez, C.B. Owens and C.D. Steelman. 2005. Molecular Assay for the Detection of Cochlosoma anatis in House Flies and Turkey Specimens by Polymerase Chain Reactions. Veterinary Parasitology 127:165-168.
Food Science
Monsoor, M.A., A. Proctor and T.J. Siebenmorgen. 2004. Surface Lipid and Free Fatty Acids (FFA) Content of Head and Broken Rice Produced by Milling After Different Drying Treatments. Cereal Chem. 81(6):705-709.
Poultry Science
Si, J., C.A. Fritts, P.W. Waldroup and D.J. Burnham. 2004. Effects of Excess Methionine from Meeting Needs for Total Sulfur Amino Acids on Utilization of Diets Low in Crude Protein by Broiler Chicks. J. Appl. Poult. Res. 13:579-587.
Yan, F., C.A. Fritts and P.W. Waldroup. 2004. Evaluation of Modified Dietary Phosphorus Levels With and Without Phytase Supplementation on Live Performance and Excreta Phosphorus Concentration in Broiler Diets. 2. Modified Early Phosphorus Levels. J. Appl. Poult. Res. 13:394-400.
Rice Research and Extension
Jia, Y., M. Redus, Z. Wang and J.N. Rutger. 2004. Development of SNLP Marker from the Pi-ta Blast Resistance Gene by Tri-Primer PCR. Euphytica 138:97-105.
U of A Pine Bluff
Green, B., and C. Engle. 2004. Growth of Stocker Channel Catfish to Large Market Size in Single-Batch Cluture. J. World Aquaculture Soc. 35(1):25-32.