Morphological and Cytomolecular Assessment of Intraspecific Variability in Scarlet Eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum L.) Hamidou F. Sakhanokho, M. Nurul Islam-Faridi, Eugene K. Blythe, Barbara J. Smith, Kanniah Rajasekaran & M. A. Majid a USDA-ARS, Thad Cochran Southern Horticultural Laboratory, Poplarville, Mississippi, USA b USDA-Forest Service, Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, Forest Tree ...

A. D. Wilson The USDA Forest Service has been involved in Texas oak wilt research since 1976. Despite research successes, there are still many important research areas that have not been addressed or sufficiently investigated to answer the key questions required for making sound disease management decisions. Some of the priority areas planned for future research by the Southern Hardwoods Labora...

This article provides a brief historical background of the events and circumstances that led to the 1985 Animal Welfare Act (AWA) amendments. It describes the development of the regulations promulgated by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1991 as a result of these amendments, the reasoning given for the proposals, and the revisions that were made during the process. Information is incl...

*CURRENT AFFILIATION: Office of Sustainability and Climate, USDA Forest Service, Washington, D.C.Corresponding author: Ryan Longman, [email protected]

According to myriad studies, college and university student food insecurity is a pervasive systemic problem. Most show that nearly half of students experience (Breuning et al., 2017; Broton, 2020; Nazmi, 2019). As defined by the U.S. Department Agriculture (USDA), “limited or uncertain availability nutritionally adequate safe foods, limited ability acquire acceptable foods in socially ways” (US...

The European Pig Gene Mapping Project (PiGMaP) and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) porcine linkage maps for chromosomes 3 and 9 have been aligned by typing three USDA microsatellites from chromosome 3 and five from chromosome 9 on the PiGMaP reference families. Using the CRIMAP linkage analysis package, revised multipoint linkage maps were constructed for chromosome 3 and 9. Incl...

c onservationists and agriculturists face unprecedented challenges trying to minimize tradeoffs between increasing demands for food, fiber, feed, and biofuels and the resulting loss or reduced values of other ecosystem services, such as those derived from wetlands and biodiversity (Millenium Ecosystem Assessment 2005a, 2005c; Maresch et al. 2008). The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 ...