Plant and Soil Sciences eLibrary

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Crop Science Investigation

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The Future is in YOUR Hands

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Experiential Learning in Agricultural Sciences (ELAS)
Martha Mamo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln dnolan2@unl.edu
Our hope is that this community will become a wealth of information shared. Please use the Discussion Board above (and within each specific area) to post lesson plans, images, and other items of interest. From time to time we will move items that have been posted to the most appropriate areas of the site. In the Discussion Board above, the first few postings contain materials to help you learn how to create dynamic posts and attach materials to your posts. ELAS Events and Workshops will be a place for us to provide lists of specific events of interest to ELAS. ELAS Pedagogical Resources link in the left menu is an area where we will share information about materials available on the web and through other sources. ELAS Teaching Tips link in the left menu will be used to share tips and tricks that have been found useful, and possibly warnings of things that don't seem to work. ELAS Activities and Lesson Plans will eventually contain a variety of actual activities and lesson plans for your use. ELAS Leader Contacts provides you with a list of the original leaders of this site, including their affiliations and email addresses.

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Plant Breeding Training Network (PBTN)
Leah Sandall lsandall5@unl.edu
Welcome to the Plant Breeding Training Network (PBTN)! Feel free to browse the reference materials located within the community. To go through a lesson, please follow the below information to set up a PBTN account that will allow you to enter the course. Here are instructions about how to create a PBTN account. Building on infrastructure created through the support of the NSF, PBTN was created as part of the Triticeae CAP and is now supported by WheatCAP, both funded by USDA-NIFA. Please take a look around and we hope you find the materials, webinars, and courses in this environment to be rewarding. Together we can meet the food needs of a growing population, in the midst of climate challenges. We hope you become a frequent visitor of this site to share with us the experiences of this exciting project. Jason Cook and Leah Sandall PBTN Project Director and Administrator Jorge Dubcovsky and Eduard Akhunov WheatCAP Project Directors
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Featured Animations

Ethylene Synthesis
This animation shows the ethylene biosynthesis pathway and how auxins and environmental stresses induce it.
Stripe Rust Activity
Inhibidores del Fotosistema II
El fotosistema II es un sistema dentro del esquerma Z que interactúa para colectar energía del sol.

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Featured Lessons

Auxin and Auxinic Herbicide Mechanism(s) of Action - Part 1 - Introduction The selective control of broadleaf weeds in cereal grain crops by auxinic herbicides has made this group one of the most widespread and important herbicide families in use. These herbicides were the first organic herbicides developed that were selective or able to kill one group of plants, but not another (i.e. kill broadleaf, but not grass plants). This lesson will introduce the major features of these herbicides, discuss their major uses and describe the symptoms of the injury they cause as well as introduce how they kill sensitive plants.
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Seed Lab Testing An overview of seed testing methods in the lab.
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Los Pigmentos Vegetales y la Fotosíntesis En esta lección se examinarán las dos principales clases de pigmentos fotosintéticos: las clorofilas y los carotenoides. Se analizarán sus estructuras bioquímicas y su biosíntesis, y se explica...
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Inhibitors of Fatty Acid Synthesis and Elongation Fatty acid synthesis and fatty acid elongation are two parts of a critically important pathway in plants. The endproducts are essential components of cell membranes, waxes, and suberin. Two chemical f...
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Erosion Control Measures This lesson will discuss erosion control practices in the agricultural and construction environments. The impact of erosion management practices will be demonstrated with exercises using a USLE calcul...
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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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