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    • USDA ARS Online Magazine Vol. 43, No. 12

      Agricultural Research Magazine· 5 days ago

      Program to convert tropical plants is unique among crops. As a boy, Fred Miller noticed that the chrysanthemums dotting the farms and homesteads of Central Texas where he grew up flowered in ...

    • Nebraska voting FAQ

      USA Today· 5 days ago

      The USA TODAY Network has everything you need to know to make the best choices for yourself and your family at the ballot box. Mail-in ballots must be in by 8 p.m. Central time. How do I register to vote in Nebraska?

    • USDA ARS Online Magazine Vol. 47, No. 5

      Agricultural Research Magazine· 5 days ago

      For more than a decade, it has been our goal to provide livestock producers the opportunity to predetermine the sex of offspring to increase reproductive efficiency, says ARS animal physiologist ...

    • USDA ARS Online Magazine Vol. 49, No. 11

      Agricultural Research Magazine· 5 days ago

      A half-inch-long insect called the glassy-winged sharpshooter has wreaked havoc in southern California wine vineyards, causing an estimated $14 million in damage during the past several years ...

    • USDA ARS Online Magazine Vol. 56, No. 10

      Agricultural Research Magazine· 5 days ago

      Prop roots, a juvenile characteristic, are normally found in the first few nodes of the plant, serving the purpose of propping the plant upright in the soil. Corngrass—a somewhat grassier-looking ...

    • USDA ARS Online Magazine Vol. 50, No. 11

      Agricultural Research Magazine· 5 days ago

      The research also opens the door to new strategies that could help crop plants sidestep the unwanted, climate-driven influences on rubisco activase and the negative impacts on rubisco and photosynthesis ...

    • USDA ARS Online Magazine Vol. 52, No. 1

      Agricultural Research Magazine· 5 days ago

      Fruit from micropagated Laie Gold, a new papaya variety developed by plant physiologist Maureen Fitch and patented by ARS, is noted for its sweet mango-and-coconut flavor, thick orange-yellow flesh, attractive globular shape, and higher market

    • USDA ARS Online Magazine Vol. 46, No. 7

      Agricultural Research Magazine· 5 days ago

      Four years ago, it was found lurking on soybeans growing on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. At a 1995 workshop convened to propose a plan for controlling a possible invasion of P. pachyrhizi, U.S ...