Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences
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Table of Contents • Notables Dean reviews 2006 accomplishments Non-profits workshop and career day, Monday & Wednesday Vision Credits
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Agricultural & Extension Education Dave Edmark is serving as president of the Northwest Arkansas chapter of the Public Relations Society of America for 2007. He is also serving this year as historian/webmaster for the Arkansas chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society for agriculture. Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness Graduate student Caroline Boen was elected as a senator in the UA Associated Student Government Senate. Biological & Agricultural Engineering Otto Loewer gave an invited presentation at the 100 Young Scientists Forum at Zhejiang University in China Oct. 31 and to students at the School of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science on Nov. 2. His topic was "The Future of Agricultural and Biological Engineering... and Why?" The following students are the recent inductees and officers for Alpha Epsilon: Pradbhakar Deonikar, Treasurer; V. Venkatakrishnan, President; Leslie Bartsch, Secretary; Thomas F. Garrison, Vice President; and Sunny Wallace, Past President. Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences David Miller gave a presentation about soils and soil profiling careers to seven 8th grade classes at Springdale Central Junior High School Feb. 6. Entomology Randy Luttell gave the invited presentation, “Bollworm issues in transgenic cotton,” at the Cotton Incorporated, Crop Management Seminar in Memphis Nov. 1. Gus Lorenz also gave a volunteered presentation at the meeting. Fred Stephen, Melissa Fierke and J. A. Tullis coauthored the invited presentation, “Red oak borer in Ozark forests: Tracking the rise and fall of a native tree-killing cerambycid,” at the Entomological Society of America’s National Meeting in Indianapolis Dec. 10-13. Dr. Stephen also gave the invited presentation, “Forest health and forest insects,” at the meeting. Volunteered presentations were given by Drs. Stephen and Fierke, Laurel Haavik, Larry Galligan, Donn Johnson, Sandra Sleezer, Barbara Lewis, T.J. Kring, Marita Lih, Cesar Solorzano, Carrie Owens, Allen Szalanski and Robert Wiedenmann. Kyle Colwell, Gus Lorenz, Jarrod Hardke and Craig Shelton gave volunteered presentations at the Arkansas Crop Protection Association Technical Conference in Fayetteville Nov. 27. Laurel Haavik, Robin Verble and Fred Stephen gave a volunteered poster presentation at the Arkansas Entomological Society in October. Robert Wiedenmann presented the keynote address, “Control Biológico de Malezas en Áreas Naturales en los Estados Unidos,” at the Congress of the Mexican Society of Biological Control in Manzanillo, Mexico, Nov. 10. The Department of Entomology led a trip January 3-7 to the mountain forests near Angangueo, Michoacan in Central Mexico to see the overwintering site of as many as a hundred million monarch butterflies. (See Headlines.) Horticulture Aaron Patton recently joined the Department of Horticulture as Turfgrass Extension Specialist. Patton is originally from Bloomington, Indiana. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. at Purdue University and B.S. at Iowa State University. Food Science Ph.D candidate Vishal Jain received the 2007 Honored Student Award of the American Oil Chemists' Society. Awardees are selected from North American, European and Asian Universities and present an invited paper at the 2007 AOCS annual meeting. Plant Pathology Yulin Jia was invited for the seminar, "Plants and Pathogens engage in trench warfare: New Knowledge learned from rice blast resistance gene Pi-ta," held Jan. 14 in the rice blast workshop of the 2007 Plant and Animal Genome conference in San Diego.Richard Cartwright, Extension Plant Pathologist and state extension leader for Pest Management, was presented the award for Outstanding Plant Pathologist of the Southern Division of the American Phytopathological Society (APS) for 2007. (See Headlines.)The award was presented at the annual meeting of the APS Southern Division held in conjunction with the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists meeting in Mobile Feb. 4-5. Poultry Science James Denton was inducted into the American Poultry Hall of Fame at the U.S. Poultry & Egg ceremony Jan. 24, in conjunction with the International Poultry Exposition in Atlanta. (See Headlines.) Susan Watkins was named one of 27 TOP GUNS for Problem-Solving in the poultry industry as reported in the November 2006 issue of Poultry USA. October/November Grants Animal Science J. Apple. Morinda Holdings. Red meat research. $2,710. R. Rorie. Chastain Farms. Embryo transfer. $413. C. Maxwell. DSM Nutritional Products. Evaluation of various combinations of Bacillus strains and doses on the growth performance of nursery pigs. $33,240. College of Agriculture—ASU G. Phillips Syngenta Seeds. Chloride screening. $1,650. Crop, Soil & Environmental Sciences N. Slaton. Kingenda Fertilizer Company. Loveland Products. Soil testing and plant analysis. $15,003. Lawrence Oliver. Monsanto Company. E.I. du Pont de Nemours. Weed science. $4,500. P. Chen. Worldwide Soy Technologies. Integrative Nutrition Inc. Soybean genetic research. $2,155. J. Kelly and R. Bacon. Cullum Seed, LLC. Research Seeds Inc. Small grain variety trials. $5,200. Entomology F. Stephen. USDA FS. Applied silvicultural assessment of upland oak-hickory forests and the red oak borer in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas. $220,246. D. Johnson. Missouri Grape & Wine Board (PRIME). Survey and control of aerial and root grape phylloxera on grape cultivars and rootstocks in the Ozark Mountain region. $10,299. Food Science S. Ricke. Novozymes, Inc. Antimicrobial control of microbial contaminations in the industrial yeast fermentation system. $15,000. J. Lingbeck and S. Ricke. American Heart Association. Regulation of protein degradation in cardiac and vascular smooth muscle. $39,690. Horticulture M. Richardson. Syngenta Crop Protection Inc. Ocean Organics Corporation. Grass research. $8,000. Human Environmental Sciences J. Foote. US Department of Education (Prime). Nutrition component for the Coordinated School Health and Physical Education Program at Whitefield Public School. $1,750. Plant Pathology C. Rothrock. Cotton Foundation. Micro Flo Company. Development of an on-line producer friendly decision-aid for the use of in-furrow fungicides. Cotton research. $21,000. J. Rupe. North Central Soybean Research Program. North central SDS coordination and variety testing program (2007). Poultry Science G. Erf. Cobb-Vantress, Inc. Investigation into the etiopathology of the turkey neck disorder. $17,000. School of Forest Resources H. Liechty. USDA FS. Plum Creek Timberlands. Impacts of repeated prescribed fires on water quality during pine bluestem ecosystem restoration. Loblolly pine stands 2007. Plum Creek mid-rotation brush control and fertilization. $34,196. D. Patterson and M. Pelkki. US Department of Energy (Prime). Time and motion studies of John Deere slash-bundler at southern pine harvest sites in the Mid-South. $12,000. Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Ahrendsen, B.L., C.B. Dodson, B.L. Dixon and S.R. Koenig. 2005. Research on USDA Farm Credit Programs: Past, Present, and Future. Agric. Finance Rev. Fall:165-181. Carreira, R.I., A.L. Stoecker, F.M. Epplin, J.A. Hattey and M.A. Kizer. 2006. Subsurface Drip Irrigation Versus Center-Pivot Sprinkler for Applying Swine Effluent to Corn. J. Agric. and Appl. Econ. 38(3):645-658. Kemper, N.P., J.S.Popp, H.L. Goodwin Jr., W.P. Miller and G.A. Doeksen. 2006. The Economic Power of Poultry in the Ozarks. J. Appl. Poult. Res. 15:502-510. Pollard, S., and J.Popp. 2006. Optimizing Multi-family Recycling Systems, Part I: The Powerful Role of System Support. Resource Recycling Dec.: 1-3. Popp, M.P., J.T. Edwards, L.C. Purcell and P.M. Manning. 2006. Profit-Maximizing Seeding Rates and Replanting Thresholds for Soybean: Maturity Group Interactions in the Mid-South. Agric. Systems 91:211-228. Willett, K., D.M. Mitchell, H.L. Goodwin, B. Vieux and J.S. Popp. 2006. The Opportunity Cost of regulating Phosphorus from Broiler Production in the Illinois River Basin. J. Environ. Planning and Management 49(2):181-207. Animal Science Coblentz, W.K., K.P. Coffey, T.F. Smith, D.S. Hubbell III, D.A. Scarbrough, J.B. Humphry, B.C. McGinley, J.E. Turner, J.A. Jennings, C.P. West, M.P. Popp, D.H. Hellwig, D.L. Kreider and C.F. Rosenkrans Jr. 2006. Using Orchardgrass and Endophyte-Free Fescue Versus Endophyte-Infected Fescue Overseeded on Bermudagrass for Cow Herds: I. Four-Year Summary of Forage Characteristics. Crop Sci. 46:1919-1928. Coblentz, W.K., K.P. Coffey, T.F. Smith, D.S. Hubbell III, D.A. Scarbrough, J.B. Humphry, B.C. McGinley, J.E. Turner, J.A. Jennings, C.P. West, M.P. Popp, D.H. Hellwig, D.L. Kreider and C.F. Rosenkrans Jr. 2006. Using Orchardgrass and Endophyte-Free Fescue Versus Endophyte-Infected Fescue Overseeded on Bermudagrass for Cow Herds: II. Four-Year Summary of Cow-Calf Performance. Crop Sci. 46:1929-1938. Biological and Agricultural Engineering Kim, J.-W., and T.L. Peeples. 2006. Screening Extremophiles for Bioconversion Potentials. Biotechnol. Prog. 22:1720-1724. Li, Y., B. Hargis, S. Tung and W. Bottje. 2006. Impedance Biosensor for Rapid Screening of Avian Influenza Virus H5N1. US Patent Application No. 60/841,774, September, 2006. UAF ID # 07-06. Li, Y., S. Tung, M. Varshney and B. Srinivasan. 2006. Flow-Through and Label-Free Impedance Biosensor for Rapid Detection of Foodborne Pathogens. Invention Disclosure of the University of Arkansas, August 4, 2006. UAF ID # 07-04. Tian, R., and Y. Li. 2006. TiO2 Nanofiber Coating to Inactivate Bacteria Pathogens. Invention Disclosure of the University of Arkansas, April 4, 2006. UAF ID # 07-02. Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences Purcell, L.C., J.T. Edwards and K.R. Brye. 2007. Soybean Yield and Biomass Responses to Cumulative Transpiration: Questioning Widely Held Beliefs. Field Crops Res. 101:10-18. Sinclair, T.R., L.C. Purcell, C.A. King, C.H. Sneller, P. Chen and V. Vadez. 2007. Drought Tolerance and Yield Increase of Soybean Resulting from Improved Symbiotic N2 Fixation. Field Crops Res. 101:68-71. Entomology McKern, J.A., A.L. Szalanski and J.W. Austin. 2006. First Record of Reticulitermes flavipes and Reticulitermes hageni in Oregon (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). Florida Entomologist 89:541-542. McLeod, P. 2006. Evaluation of Insecticides for Control of Green Peach Aphid on Spinach, 2005. Arthropod Management Tests 31:E64. McLeod, P. 2006. Evaluation of Foliar Insecticides for Control of Corn Borers in Field Corn, 2005. Arthropod Management Tests 31:F11. Untalan, P. M., J. H. Pruett, H. N. Atteberry and C. D. Steelman. 2006. Thrombostasin Isoform Frequency in a Central Texas Field Population of the Horn Fly, Haematobia irritans. Vet. Parasitol. 142:359-366. Food Science Threlfall, R., G. Main and J. Morris. 2006. Effect of Freezing Grape Berries and Heating Must Samples on Extraction of Components and Composition Parameters of Red Wine Grape Varieties. Australian J. Grape and Wine Res. 12:161-169. Plant Pathology Wang, Z., Y. Jia , J. N. Rutger and Y. Xi. 2007. Rapid survey for presence of a blast resistance gene Pi-ta in rice cultivars using the dominant DNA markers derived from portions of the Pi-ta gene. Plant Breeding 126, 36—42. Southwest Research & Extension Center Beck, P.A., S. Hutchison, C.B. Stewart, J.D. Shockey and S.A. Gunter. 2007. Effect of Crabgrass (Digitaria ciliaris) Hay Harvest Interval on Forage Quality and Performance of Growing Calves Fed Mixed Diets. J. Anim. Sci. 85:527-535. Beck, P.A., C.B. Stewart, J.M. Phillips, K.B. Watkins and S.A. Gunter. 2007. Effect of Species of Cool-Season Annual Grass Interseeded into Bermudagrass Sod on the Performance of Growing Calves. J. Anim. Sci. 2007. 85:536-544. Beck, P.A., S. Hutchison, S.A. Gunter, T.C. Losi, C.B. Stewart, P.K. Capps and J.M. Phillips. 2007. Chemical composition and in situ dry matter and fiber disappearance of sorghum X Sudangrass hybrids. J.Anim.ci. 2007. 85:545-555. New Projects C.S. Rothrock. Ecological and Genetic Diversity of Soilborne S-1028 Pathogens and Indigenous Microflora. P. Hererra. A Novel Approach for Screening Salmonella enteritidis Genes for in vitro Invasion of Laying Hens Follicles. E.B. Kegley and J.K. Apple. Stress Factors of Farm Animals and Effects on Performance. B.M. Hargis. Effective Competitive Exclusion: Increasing Compliance and Widespread Utilization with Cost-Effective Feed Stable Isolates. F.D. Clark. Poultry Enteric Viruses: Identification, Pathogenicity, and Molecular Comparisons of Selected Isolates.
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