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Crop Science Investigation

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AGRO 437/837 Videos
Steve Mason, smason1@unl.edu Diane Nolan, dnolan2@unl.edu
Use these links to watch the videos. Floaters https://vimeo.com/80275352 Pycnometer https://vimeo.com/80275353 TADD https://vimeo.com/80275354 Stenvert Hardness https://vimeo.com/80275355 Test Weight https://vimeo.com/80275663 WBT https://vimeo.com/80275664
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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CSS408 - Soil Judging

Soil Judging at OSU-Cascades

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Featured Animations

Inhibidores del Fotosistema II
El fotosistema II es un sistema dentro del esquerma Z que interactúa para colectar energía del sol.
Who Wants to be a Genetic Engineer?
This interactive animation invites the viewer to decide and place in order, the steps they would need to take to develop two genetically engineered plants.
Bacteria Transformation
Illustrates the beginning stages of gene cloning. This animation shows how plasmids become recombinant and are inserted into bacteria cells. This is the second of four animations detailing the gene cloning process. To begin at the beginning, see Making a Recombinant Plasmid. (To see the next animation, go to Making a Gene Library.)

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Corn Flowers and Hybrid Seeds An explanation of how hybrid corn is grown, and how the monoecious nature of corn is used to manipulate the cross-breeding.
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Soils - Part 6: Phosphorus and Potassium in the Soil This lesson explains the importance of phosphorus fixation and describes methods for applying phosphorus and the advantages (and disadvantages) of each. It also describes the three forms of potassium ...
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Transpiration - Water Movement through Plants This lesson and its animation follows the journey of water through a plant from its uptake by roots to its evaporation from the leaf surface. How this journey is altered by plant characteristics such...
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Corn Rootworm - Part 1: Description of Corn Rootworm and Other Early Season Corn Pests This lesson will discuss the corn rootworm complex, which consists of the northern, western, and southern corn rootworm, focusing on the northern and western species. The information in this lesson ...
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Herbicide Discovery and Screening Historically, herbicides have been discovered by randomly screening collections of chemicals for activity on target weeds. While totally empirical, this approach has been surprisingly successful and ...
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