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Pesticide Resistance Management
Deana Namuth-Covert, PhD dcovert2@unl.edu
This e-Community location contains learning materials developed for pest resistance management - weeds, plant diseases, insect pressures, and genetics principles. Click on the buttons at the top for "lessons" or "animations" for an alphabetical list of these resources. To the left, you can follow the buttons where materials are packaged based upon general topics. Funding for the development of materials found in this site has been provided by the Insecticide Resistance Action Committee (IRAC)

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UNL Environmental Studies Program
Christine Haney, UNL chaney3@unl.edu

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CenUSA Education Material
Deana Namuth-Covert
What is the CenUSA Bioenergy Project? The CenUSA Bioenergy project is funded by the USDA and includes faculty and staff from 8 institutions working together to investigate perennial grasses as a feedstock for biofuels and the creation of a regional sustainable biofuels system in the Midwest. CenUSA Bioenergy Vision Our vision is to create a regional system for producing advanced transportation fuels derivedfrom perennial grasses grown on land that is either unsuitable or marginal for row crop production. In addition to producing advanced biofuels, the proposed system will improve the sustainability of existing cropping systems by reducing agricultural runoff of nutrients and soil and increasing carbon sequestration. To learn more about the CenUSA project, please visit the CenUSA home page at http://www.cenusa.iastate.edu/ To view the educational materials we have created thus far, click on the "lessons" tab above. Find additional quizzes by clicking on the "CenUSA Education" link under the self-paced course heading. The left hand tabs will take you to more detailed descriptions of the CenUSA project objectives. The CenUSA Bioenergy project is supported by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant no. 2011-68005-30411 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

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Featured Animations

Jablonski Diagrams
This animation displays how electrons can absorb and transfer energy.
La Pistola de Genes
Como funciona el método de la biolística (gen gun) para transformar células con nuevo ADN. Esta es la sexta de una serie de siete animaciones que detallan el proceso de ingeniería genética de cultivos.
Auxin and Auxinic Herbicide Mechanisms of Action
This animation illustrates how auxins and auxinic herbicides may elicit responses in plant cells. It describes basipetal transport of auxins via influx and efflux carriers and displays a scenario of auxin action where auxin receptors recognize auxins and auxinic herbicides, which then induce a signal transduction cascade to turn on various gene products. The role of these gene products in plant response is shown as well.

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Featured Lessons

Segregation of Genes: The Plant Breeder's Method of Predicting the Future How plant breeders create families with new combinations of traits and make predictions about the inheritance of traits. Discusses Mendel and Punnett.
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Plant Pigments and Photosynthesis This lesson will examine the two major classes of phototsynthetic pigments, chlorophylls and carotenoids, their biochemical structures and their biosynthesis. The organization of these pigments into ...
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Producing Grain for Animal, Food, and Industrial Uses Links to three animations on the topic.
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Module 4: Nutrient Composition Biotechnology techniques used to make nutritional changes in plants. Examine how protein, fatty acid, carbohydrate, micronutirents, and phytonutrients contents in food have been altered.
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The Dihybrid Cross and Independent Assortment Examines the principle of segregation versus the principle of independent assortment and their effects on genetic data; and the concept of dominance.
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This project was supported in part by the National Research Initiative Competitive Grants CAP project 2011-68002-30029 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, adminstered by the University of California-Davis and by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Undergraduate Education, National SMETE Digital Library Program, Award #0938034, administered by the University of Nebraska. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the USDA or NSF.

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