The effects of crop rotation and the nematicides 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D), ethoprop, and fenamiphos on the relative frequency of Meloidogyne incognita race 3, M. arenaria race 2, and M. javanica and tobacco yields on a sandy loam soil were determined. Cropping sequences altered the species composition and population densities of Meloidogyne spp. Meloidogyne arenaria and M. incognita predomin...

Yield performance and host suitability to Hoplolaimus columbus of 18 soybean cultivars in maturity groups V and VI and 21 cultivars in groups VII and VIII were evaluated in 10 experiments. No cultivar was highly resistant to H. columbus. Within individual experiments, few differences were detected in yield losses among cultivars; however, over all locations Braxton, Coker 485, and Leflore were ...

Alternate planting dates and periodic destruction of the previous year's soybean crop as well as 1-year bare fallow were used to establish a range of population densities ofHeterodera glycines for the subsequent year. Soybean cultivar Coker 156 (susceptible, moderately tolerant) was compared to cultivars Essex (susceptible, intolerant) and Bedford (resistant) to evaluate tolerance at different ...

Two experiments, one site per year, were conducted in Scotland County, North Carolina, to determine the usefulness of selected cultivars and nematicides for limiting soybean losses due to Hoplolaimus columbus. Coker 317 was relatively tolerant to this nematode, and Coker 156, Centennial, Dehapine 105, and Gordon were generally intolerant. Most nematicides significantly increased soybean yields,...

This paper is the third and last instalment of our project of computation of the low-degree unramified cohomology of quadrics. As in the previous papers [15] and [16], we denote by η X the map H(F,Q/Z(n− 1))→ H nr(F (X)/F,Q/Z(n− 1)) for a smooth, projective quadric X defined over a field F of characteristic 6= 2. Recall that in these papers we proved that Ker η X is generated by symbols for n ≤...

Lecture Notes taken by Nilufer Koldan In this lecture I will describe one of the most significant achievements of the second half of the XX century – the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. I will also discuss some more recent developments in the area as well as some open problems. 1. The definition of the index 1.1. The finite-dimensional case. Let A : V 1 → V 2 be a linear map between finite dimensi...