‘USDA Red’ Spinach

Red Spinach Extract Increases Ventilatory Threshold during Graded Exercise Testing

Background: We examined the acute effect of a red spinach extract (RSE) (1000 mg dose; ~90 mg nitrate (NO− 3 )) on performance markers during graded exercise testing (GXT). Methods: For this randomized, double-blind, placebo (PBO)-controlled, crossover study, 15 recreationally-active participants (aged 23.1 ± 3.3 years; BMI: 27.2 ± 3.7 kg/m2) reported >2 h post-prandial and performed GXT 65–75 ...

Usda Forest Service

USDA Forest Service

Wildland fire is an important disturbance agent in the western US and globally. However, the natural role of fire has been disrupted in many regions due to the influence of human activities, which have the potential to either exclude or promote fire, resulting in a ‘‘fire deficit’’ or ‘‘fire surplus’’, respectively. In this study, we developed a model of expected area burned for the western US ...

USDA Sample Proposal

Hypoglycemia represents a dangerous acute condition for neonates and fordiabetics of all ages. For neonates, careful monitoring of plasma glucoseconcentrations in at-risk newborns over the first few hours of life has becomestandard medical practice throughout the nation to guard against hypoglycemia.However, today’s state-of-the-art techniques for accurately detectinghypogly...

Improving spinach, radish, and lettuce growth under red light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with blue light supplementation.

Radish (Raphanus sativus L. cv. Cherriette), lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. cv. Waldmann's Green), and spinach (Spinacea oleracea L. cv. Nordic IV) plants were grown under 660-nm red light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and were compared at equal photosynthetic photon flux (PPF) with either plants grown under cool-white fluorescent lamps (CWF) or red LEDs supplemented with 10% (30 micromoles m-2 s-1) blue ...