Since the last issue of the newsletter, strategic plan-ning activities have continued with input sessions for graduate students, undergraduate students, and staff. Sessions during August will gather input from producer and industry clientele. At the same time, faculty discus-sions have been held on position priorities for the fu-ture. If you attend the Delta Center Field Day on Sep-tember 2nd, be sure to look up our newest faculty member, Dr. Jason Weirich (page 3). Jason joined the division officially on July 1st with an extension and re-search assignment in Weed Science. Dr. Weirich joins Gene Stevens, Laura Sweets, and John Lory from DPS on the Commercial Agriculture Extension Crops Focus Team. Also be sure to take a look at the “Know Your Colleagues” section in this issue to learn more about Dr. Sanjun Gu and his vegetable production team at Lincoln University, where he works as State Horticulture Specialist (pages 5 & 6). Sanjun is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in DPS. Dr. Keith Striegler (pages 3 & 7) is not new to DPS but has shifted his administrative home to our division from Food Systems and Bioengineering. As a viticulturist and Director of the Institute for Continental Climate Viticulture and Enology, we felt that this change would facilitate greater connections and involve-ment within the division. Julia Backues (page 3) changed seats from her location in LSC to the first floor office in Waters Hall with Barb. The impressive record of grant activity and research publications by DPS faculty, staff and students continues at a high level (pages 8-11). The College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources continues to lead University of Missouri colleges in research expenditures, and the Division of Plant Sciences is a major part of this sustained success.

INSIDE This Issue

2Awards & Honors

FROM THE DIVISION DIRECTOR

Mike Collins

Volume 3 Issue 3Summer 2010

Division of Plant SciencesCollege of Agriculture, Food and Natural ResourcesUniversity of Missouri

3-4Programs & People

5-6Around the Division

7Events &Activities

8-9Recent Grants

10-11Recent Publications

Plant SciencesQuarterly

Plant Sciences Quarterly is produced by Kate Riley and Tonya Mueller and copyedited by Craig Roberts.

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2 Awards & Honors

Dr. Kelly Nelson received the 2010 Citation of Merit Award at the Celebration of Ex-cellence Award Ceremony held April 15 at the Reynolds Alumni Center. The award is for professional attainment by a person in a field related to the academic curriculum of a division of the University of Missouri. His research focuses on increasing agronomic pro-duction specific to Northeast Missouri, specifically corn and soybean production systems, alternative crops, integrated pest management and tile drainage.

Nelson receives Citation of Merit

Dr. Dale Blevins will receive the 2010 Crop Science Teaching Award at the ASA, CSSA, and SSSA 2010 International Annual Meetings, October 31 - November 3 in Long Beach, CA. The Crop Science Teaching Award is given to teachers who have the ability to inspire students to make the most of their talents and to serve humanity. They are teachers who have the ability to influence students to acquire the commonly admired attributes of good judgment, sound thinking, objectivity, integrity, and cooperativeness.

Blevins awarded Crop Science Teaching Award

Dale Blevins

Kelly Nelson

The Mizzou Adventures in Education is an annual family event during Graduate Education Week. This free event allows the public to learn what graduate students are doing today. Children can discover and learn about the world around them as they participate in hands-on activities planned and taught by MU graduate students. This year, the event took place Saturday, April 24 in Jesse Hall. At this year’s event, Plant Science graduate students had two booths, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar: What Does it Like to Eat?” by Amy Replogle and Abigail Fer-rieri and “From Seeds to Supper” by Kasey Hames, Dara Boardman and Deanna Boardman. Both booths were awarded First Place for the Chancellor’s Award for Public Outreach. Three awards were given to the booths that best represented the MU values of respect, responsibility, discovery and excellence.

Chancellor’s Award for Public Outreach awarded to Plant Science graduate students at the 2010 Mizzou Adventures in Education

2010 Mizzou Adventures in Education

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3 Programs & People

Jason Weirich

New Faculty Member: Dr. Jason WeirichDr. Jason Weirich has joined the Division of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Natu-ral Resources, as Extension As-

sistant Professor of Weed Science. Jason comes to the University of Mis-souri from Mississippi State University, where he is completing the Ph.D. de-gree in Weed Science. The Commer-cial Agriculture Extension position is located at the Delta Research Center in Portageville, MO and is 70% exten-sion and 30% research. Jason went from the family farm

operation in southeastern Colorado, where he grew up, to Oklahoma Pan-handle State University where he re-ceived the B.S. degree in 2005. From OPSU, he went to Oklahoma State Uni-versity where he completed the M.S. degree in 2007 with a thesis entitled, “Alternate control practices for palmer amaranth resistance to acetolactate synthase (ALS) inhibiting herbicides in peanuts.” His dissertation at MSU is entitled, “Assessing long-term viability of glyphosateresistant technology as a foundation for cropping systems.” His responsibilities at the Delta Research Center include developing and promoting a program of applied weed control extension with an em-

phasis on cotton, rice, soybean, corn and other important field crops pro-duced in the Missouri Delta region. The goal is to develop effective weed control management programs based on producer needs and sound IPM principles for extension clientele in-cluding producers, consultants, other extension personnel, and industry representatives. Jason is part of the interdisciplinary Commercial Agricul-ture Crops Focus Team that includes faculty in plant science, soil science, biological engineering, and agricultural economics. The applied research pro-gram will address research needs of current or potential cropping systems for the Bootheel Region of Missouri.

The Institute for Continental Climate Viticulture and Enology was represented by graduate students, faculty and staff at the 2010 American Society for Enology and Viticulture, Eastern Sec-tion (ASEV-ES) Conference held July 13 through 15th in Geneva, NY. MU Plant Science graduate students garnered two of the eight available scholarships. Jackie Harris and Eli Bergmeier were awarded the ASEV-ES student scholarships at the conference’s Awards Banquet. Dr. Keith Striegler gave a poster presentation on the “Response of ‘Jupiter’ Grape Vines to Shoot and Cluster Thinning.” He is also the Viticulture Program Leader and Direc-tor of the Institute at MU and has served as the ASEV-ES Chair-person for 2009-2010.

Director Keith Striegler and USDA-ARS grape root-stock breeder Peter Cousins discuss some of Pe-ter’s recent discoveries while touring the New York State Agriculture Experiment Station in Geneva, NY.

Students receive scholarships at the 35th Annual ASEV-ES Conference held July 13-15 in Geneva, NY

Eli Bergmeier

Priya Voothuluru, doctoral student in Bob Sharp’s lab, will be giving an in-vited talk on behalf of Dr. Sharp in a symposium on “Root Growth” at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Plant Growth Regulation Society of Amer-ica, to be held in Portland, Oregon,

on August 8-12. The primary purpose of the Plant Growth Regulation Society of America is to disseminate information concerning regulation of plant growth that results in safe, environmentally sound, and efficient production of food, fi-ber, and ornamentals.

Voothuluru to talk at PGRSA Meeting

Julia Backues has worked since November of 2008 to provide administrative support for the Sustainable Energy Center. Dr. Stacey’s decision to modify his role with the center created the possibility for Julia to support other division activities as her effort with the center itself de-clines. Julia will be assisting Dr. Smeda in his role as Director of Undergradu-ate Programs. She may also work on some special projects for the divi-sion as the need arises. Her presence in Waters Hall, Room 108, should also help provide continuity in meeting day-to-day office operation needs when Barb is out. Julia’s phone number is 884-1192.

Backues joins the Division of Plant Sciences

Julia BackuesPriya Voothuluru

Jackie Harris

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4 Programs & People

Office CommunicatorYou may have noticed that a new piece of software has installed itself on your computer. I have pushed out Office Communicator for everyone’s use. As mentioned in the last newsletter Office Communicator is a pro-gram that allows a new avenue of communicating with individuals in the UM system. If the program has been installed on your computer you should see an icon something like two green or yellow arrows in a circle located in the bottom right corner of your screen near the clock. If you do not see that icon look under All Programs from the Start menu for “Microsoft Office Communicator 2007.” Communicator allows users:.

• Enhanced presence management (available, busy, away, etc.) • Inter-campus instant messaging capabilities • Integration of distribution lists into the OCS contacts list • Peer to peer audio/visual conferencing • Desktop sharing • File transfer

If you do not have this program and would like to have it installed please contact Gary Tyler or me. This program is not available for student use and is not currently available for Apple computers. For more information and some training, please visit this Microsoft link. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/communicator/

Data and Equipment PoliciesThe University is adamant that all faculty, staff and students not use any resource outside the University to store data. This includes websites, cloud servers, backup services, etc. With the increasingly available online backup services, I want to urge you not to sign up or utilize these programs. When you as an individual sign up for these services, the University would not have access to the data if you became unavailable or unwilling to do the retrieval yourself. There is also the increased risk of University data being stolen, as there is no control over where or how the data is stored by these companies. These arguments may seem small to you, but security and rightful access are two very important things when storing data. If you are using these services now, please visit with me so that we can come up with an alternative method for you to store data.

On a similar note, all University computer equipment needs to go through Gary or me before it is accepted by surplus property. My policy is that if it needs electricity to run, you should at least touch base with us before sending your equipment off to surplus on your own.

New Network WiringAlmost all of the buildings where Plant Science staff is housed still carry the old Type 9 Token Ring network cable. We continue to use this cable but it has reduced speed compared to the newer CAT5/6 cable Telecom is now using.

Telecom was supposed to be replacing this cable; however, I have not seen proof of this so I started making inquiries and arguments that this needs to be done sooner than later. I recently received word that there are plans to replace all Type 9 cable by the end 2010. Telecom is working from a list going from smallest to highest number of cable replacements. I’m not sure where that puts each of our buildings, but I was told Waters Hall has been moved to the top of the list since I was going to have several lines in that building changed out anyway.

Antivirus ChangesThe University has changed its antivirus license agreement for 2011. All University owned computers will have to have their Symantec software replaced with Microsoft Forefront before the end of the year. Gary and I have slowly been making these changes, however there will be an even greater push to get this task completed this fall. This will also need to be changed on all University laptops. Please take any notice or request from Gary or me for you to bring your laptop in for this alteration very seriously.

If you are running the University licensed Symantec Antivirus software on your personal computers it needs to be uninstalled and replaced with the freely available Microsoft Security Essentials or some other Antivirus program by December 31, 2010. Microsoft Security Essentials can be downloaded and installed from this website: http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/. Please uninstall Symantec and reboot your machine before installing Microsoft Essentials on your home machines.

Web ImprovementsKate Riley has been going through the Division websites that are stored on the DPS web server, adding new search engines and Google Analytics. If you don’t already know, Google Analytics is a service that monitors and reports traffic and usage of websites. This can be a very valuable tool for faculty as they make reports and submit grants. If you have a website that is housed on the DPS web server and have questions about these services, please let me know.

DPS Technology Update, Tonya Mueller

Tonya Mueller

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KNOW YOUR COLLEAGUES: Sanjun Gu at Lincoln University

5 Around the Division

Sanjun Gu, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor and State Horticulture Specialist with Lincoln University Cooperative Research and Extension, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the

Division of Plant Sciences at the University of Missouri. He has a 75:25 extension/research ap-pointment dealing with commercial vegetable production. Sanjun was born and raised in China and received his B.S. in Horticulture from Shandong Agricultural University, M.S. in Vegetable Breeding and Tissue Culture from China Agricultural University, and Ph.D. in Horticulture/Viti-culture from University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

ExtensionAs the State vegetable Specialist, San-jun works closely with regional exten-

sion horticulturists from Lincoln Univer-sity and University of Missouri. He serves as the technical resource person for both vegetable growers and field horticulturists. He or-ganizes In-Service Education to train agricultural educators in the horticultural area. In collaboration with State Horticulturists from KS, IA, NE and SD, Sanjun organizes the Great Plains Vegetable Growers Conference, the largest one of its kind in the Midwest. He also helps organize the Small Fruit and Vegetable Conference and Field Days and Workshops throughout Missouri.

Dr. Gu is the Associate Program Leader for the Innovative Small Farmers’ Outreach Program (ISFOP, http://www.lincolnu.edu/pages/653.asp), which helps the small farmers and ranchers of Missouri, especially those who are socially disadvantaged and underserved, raise the level of efficiency on their farms while taking good care of soil, water and the environment. Currently, there are two small farm specialists and six farm outreach workers in the East- and West-Central Regions. The ISFOP will expand to a third region in the near future.

Dr. Gu runs the USDA funded 2501 project (Outreach and Assistance to Socially Disadvantaged Farm-ers and Ranchers Program). This project is designed to assist socially disadvantaged farmers from the Southeast, South Central and Southwest regions in growing specialty crops, raising small ruminants, or producing value-added agricultural products for local markets, and to enhance their participation in available and appropriate USDA programs and services. Two Program Assistants, Sarah Becker and Darvin Green, have been working on this program.

Sanjun Gu

Sarah Becker

Great Plains Vegetable Growers Conference

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State-wide vegetable variety trials and demonstration is another component of Sanjun’s Extension work. New tomato, watermelon, eggplant and ethnic vegetables have been tested in Lincoln University’s Carver Farm, MU Bradford Farm and Southwest Center. Terry Blank, greenhouse manager and techni-cian is the key person for the program. She supervises students, maintains field research/demonstration plots, and does poinsettia variety trials. An extension associate to conduct field research will come on board in September, 2010.

ResearchDr. Gu’s research projects include vegetable grafting, vegetable production in high-tunnels and Chinese solar plastic green-houses, with a main goal to increase the profitability of locally grown vegetables. Vegetable grafting has been an emerging technique in the United States. Sanjun has been conducting research to find the better combinations of scion and rootstock varieties of tomato, watermelon and melon for improved yield and quality and disease resistance. The objective was to pro-mote production of heirloom tomatoes organically or with reduced chemical input. The Chinese plastic greenhouse uses only solar energy to produce warm season vegetables in deep winter. Dr. Gu has been exploring the possibility to adapt this facility in Missouri. Dr. Gu is in the process of hiring a research technician and a graduate student.

Dr. Gu’s extension and research programs are funded by USDA’s SARE PDP, 2501 and Specialty Crop Block Fund, as well as USDA’s 1890 Institution Extension fund and Evan-Ellen’s fund.

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Vegetable GraftingVegetable Grafting

Community GardeningCommunity Gardening

Terry Blank

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Events & Activities7RECENT FIELD DAYS

UPCOMING FIELD DAYS:Greenley Center August 10, 2010Graves-Chappelle Farm August 24, 2010Delta Research Center September 2, 2010Southwest Center September 10, 2010Thompson Farm September 21, 2010South Farm October 2, 2010Wurdack Farm October 8, 2010

Pest Manage-ment Field DayThere were 90 paid at-tendees at the Pest Man-agement Field Day held at Bradford Research and Extension Center, July 14. The field day in-cluded guided wagon tours with stops that

featured a presentation of results and talks by university weed scientists, entomologists, plant pathologists, and agronomists. Those in attendance made decisions on more than 34 million acres throughout the Midwest. The overall rating for the program content was a 4.44 on a scale of 1 to 5.

Turf & Ornamen-tal Field DayExcellent weather was in the forecast for the 2010 Turfgrass & Orna-mental Field Day held at the University South Farms on July 13th. Lee Miller, Dan Lloyd, Steve Song, and John Hague-wood were introduced as the newest members of the turfgrass management team. Approximately 200 were in attendance with a 60% increase in vendor support over 2009. Topics discussed in the plot tours included bermudagrass and zoysiagrass selec-tions, annual flower choices, fairy ring management on putting greens, control of mosses, control of bermudagrass in zoysiagrass, glyphosate resistant annual bluegrass, and an introduction to the new synthetic turf plots. Participants commented on the wide variety of topics offered and good food. Many thanks to the Mis-souri Turf & Ornamental Council for their continued support of this event and to all who help make this event a success.

Crop Injury and Diagnostic ClinicThe MU Bradford Re-search and Extension Center hosted the 17th annual Crop Injury and Diagnostic Clinic July 27-30th. These two-two-day clinics offered Industry and Extension

personnel an opportunity to hear and learn about the latest chal-lenges and trends in production agriculture in a hands-on set-ting. Each year sessions include a wide range of ten topics which include faculty from the Division of Plant Sciences as well as the School of Natural Resources and USDA-ARS. Traditional topics such as Kevin Bradley’s Herbicide Symptomology and Wayne Bai-ley’s Field Crop Insects that tackle the latest hot topics are mixed with new topical sessions such as Bill Wiebold and Felix Fritschi’s “From Seed to Seedling.” Soil and nutrient sessions were pro-vided by the SNR’s Randy Miles and Bob Broz and the USDA-ARS Scientist. A guest speaker, former MU graduate student and current Nebraska University Faculty member, Dr. Tamra Jackson, headed up the Field Crop Disease session, which featured Soy-bean Cyst and Root Knot Nematode identification and manage-ment and the latest corn foliar disease problems.

Viticulture Field DayThe Institute for Con-tinental Climate Viti-culture and Enology, together with the Mis-souri Grape Growers Association, held the annual Viticulture Field Day on Tuesday, June 8 at Hermannof Vineyards in Hermann, Missouri. Dr. Terry Bates (right) from Cornell University joined ICCVE viticulturists in pre-senting the latest research information to grape growers across the region. The day included vineyard tours and presentations on ICCVE research projects involving vineyard mechanization, Nor-ton cluster exposure and vineyard row orientation.

UPCOMING MEETINGS: ASA-CSSA-SSSA, will be held October 31 - November 3 in Long Beach, CA.

ESA, The Entomological Society of America, 58th Annual Meeting, will be held December 12-15, 2010

in San Diego, California.

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Recent GrantsInvestigators Title Sponsor Amount of

FundingDates

Bailey, W.Hibbard, B.

Larval Feeding Behavior-A Role in Resistnace of the Western Corn Rootworm to Transgenic Corn

ARS $20,000 8/4/2010-7/31/2011

Bailey, W.Hibbard, B.

Rootworm IRM Studies for 2010

Monsanto $37,000 4/15/2010-3/31/2011

Bradley, K. Dicamba-tolerant soybean Weed Control System-Aca-demic Minimum Tillage

Monsanto $6,000 4/15/2010-12/31/2010

English, J. Selection of Defense Pep-tides to Protect Wheat from Fusarium Head Blight

ARS $15,074 7/20/2010-7/20/2011

Houseman, R. Area Detection Survey for Red Imported Fire Ants (So-lenopsis Invicta) in Southeast-ern Missouri, USA During 2010

Department of Agriculture

$7,000 3/1/2010-2/28/2011

Jones, A. Performance of Protocol Plans #10-HWC-46-MO

Monsanto $12,454 4/15/2010-4/14/2011

Jung, W. Rice Production Research in the Upper Mississippi River Delta Region-Best Manage-ment Practices For Carbon Negative Rice Farming

USDA $161,936 9/1/2010-8/31/2011

Nelson, K. RiceTec Agreement RiceTec $32,300 3/22/3010-3/22/2011

Nguyen, H. Engineering Soybean By-products Into Isoflavones

Donald Danforth Plant Sciences

Center

$25,000 4/1/2010-3/31/2011

Nguyen, H.Shannon, G.

Genetic Improvement of Flooding Tolerance in Soybean

United Soybean Board

$103,388 6/1/2010-5/31/2011

Nguyen, H.Shannon, G.Kumar, R.

Molecular-genetic regulation of seed oil accumulation in soybean

MSMC $79,908 5/1/2010-4/30/2011

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Recent GrantsInvestigators Title Sponsor Amount of

FundingDates

Shannon, G.Nguyen, H.

Evaluation of Germplasm and Genetic Mapping for Flooding Tolerance in Soybean

MSMC $59,460 7/1/2010-6/30/2011

Shannon, G.Nguyen, H.Wrather, A.

To Develop Productive Group IV and V Soybeans Resistant to Nematodes and Diseases

MSMC $138,693 7/1/2010-6/30/2011

Smeda, R. Dicamba-tolerant soybean Weed Control System-Academic Minimum Tillage

Monsanto $8,000 4/15/2010-12/31/2010

Stevens, G. Managing Glyphosate-Resistant Palmer Pigweed in Cotton and Cotton and Cotton-Corn Rotations

Cotton Inc. $24,500 1/1/2010-12/31/2010

Stevens, G.Jung, W.

Center Pivot Irrigation for Rice Production at Ukulima Farm, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Nature Conserva-tion Trust

$234,875 6/7/2010-6/30/2013

Sweets, L. Improving Management of Soybean Cyst Nematode through Extension Demon-stration and Outreach

North Central Soybean Research

Program

$21,000 3/1/2010-2/28/2011

Tindall, K. Evaluation of Cotton Yield Loss caused by Twospotted Spider Mites

Cotton Inc. $6,600 1/1/2010-12/31/2010

Tindall, K. Evaluation of Sampling Procedures for Detecting Tarnished Plant Bug Populations in Cotton

Cotton, Inc. $7,000 1/1/2010-12/31/2010

Wiebold, B. Development and Manage-ment of Canola in the Great Plains Region

Kansas State University

$5,000 9/1/2009-8/31/2010

Wrather, A.Shannon, G.

Management Options for Frogeye Leaf Spot and Charcoal Rot

Southern Illinois Univeristy

$19,000 3/1/2010-2/28/2011

Zhang, Z. DOW Graduate Student Agreement

DOW $153,000 11/18/2009-11/18/2011

Zhang, Z. Genetically Transform Plant Species

Los Alamos National Laboratory

$79,180 4/19/2010-4/19/2011

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Recent PublicationsBaskin, TI, Peret B, Baluska F, Benfey PN, Bennett M, Fored BG, Gilroy S, Helriutta Y, Hepler PK, Leyser O, Mas-son PH, Muday GK, Murphy AS, Poethig S, Rahman A, Roberts K, Scheres B, Sharp RE, Somerville C (2010) Shootward and Rootward: Peak terminology for plant polarity. Trends in Plant Science (in press).

Baykal U, Zhang Z. 2010. Small RNA-mediated gene silencing for plant biotechnology. In: Gene Silencing: Theory, Techniques and Applications. Catalano AJ, ed. Nova Pub. (in press).

Bradley, C. A., T. W. Allen, A. E. Dorrance, E. J. Dunphy, L. J. Giesler, D. E. Hershman, C. A. Hollier, V. Horn, and J. A. Wrather. 2010. Evaluation of the soybean rust pest information platform for extension, and education (PIPE) public website’s impact of certified crop advisors. Online. Plant Health Progress doi:10.1094/PHP-2010-0701-01-RS.

Gutierrez-Gonzalez JJ, Guttikonda SK, Tran LS, Aldrich DL, Zhong R, Yu O, Nguyen HT, and Sleper DA. 2010. Differential expression of isoflavone biosynthetic genes in soybean during water deficits. Plant Cell Physiol. Jun;51(6):936-48.

Gutierrez-Gonzalez JJ, Wu X, Gillman JD, Lee JD, Zhong R, Yu O, Shannon G, Ellersieck M, Nguyen HT, Sleper DA. 2010. Intricate environment-modulated genetic networks control isoflavone accumulation in soybean seeds. BMC Plant Biol. 2010 Jun 11;10(1):105.

Landwer, B.H.P. and R. W. Sites. 2010. The larval Odonata of ponds in the prairie region of Missouri. Transac-tions of the American Entomological Society 136(1-2): 1-105.

Leach KA, Hejlek LG, Hearne LB, Nguyen HT, Sharp RE, Davis GL (2010) Primary root elongation rate and abscisic acid levels of maize (Zea mays L.) in response to water stress. Crop Science (in press).

Li, J.-Y., Fu, Y.-L., Pike, S.M., Bao, J., Tian, W., Zhang, Y., Chen, C.-Z., Zhang, Y., Li, H.-M., Huang, J., Li, L.-G., Schro-eder, J.I., Gassmann, W., and Gong, J.-M. (2010) The Arabidopsis nitrate transporter NRT1.8 functions in nitrate removal from the xylem sap and mediates cadmium tolerance. Plant Cell 22: 1633-1646.

Lin, C.-H., K.W. Goyne, R.J. Kremer, R.N. Lerch, and H.E. Garrett. 2010. Dissipation of sulfamethazine and tetra-cycline in the root zone of grass and tree species. J. Environ. Qual. 39:1269-1278.

Manavalan LP, Guttikonda SK, Nguyen VT, Shannon JG, and Nguyen HT. 2010. Evaluation of diverse soybean germplasm for root growth and architecture. Plant and Soil. 330:503–514.

Nelson, K.A., C.G. Meinhardt, and R.L. Smoot. 2010. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivar selection affects double-crop and relay-intercrop soybean (Glycine max L.) response on claypan soils. Online. International J. Agron. doi:10.1155/2010/543261.

Nelson, K.A., R.L. Smoot, and B.A. Burdick. 2010. Seed coat technology affects yields of relay intercrop, full season, and double crop soybean in upstate Missouri. Online. Crop Management doi:10.1094/CM-2010-06XX-01-RS.

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Recent Publications11Payne, K. K., and Bradley, K. W. 2010. Herbicidal control of tall goldenrod in tall fescue hayfields. Online. Forage and Grazinglands doi:10.1094/FG-2010-0426-01-RS.

Pham TA, Hill CB, Miles MR, Nguyen BT, Vu TT, Vuong TD, VanToai TT, Nguyen HT, and Hartman GL. 2010. Evalua-tion of soybean for resistance to soybean rust in Vietnam. Field Crops Research 117:131–138.

Roberts, C.A. and J.G. Andrae. 2010. Fescue toxicosis and management. ASA and CSSA, Madison, WI.

Sappington, T.W., K.R. Ostlie, C. DiFonzo, B.E. Hibbard, C.H. Krupke, P. Porter, S. Pueppke, E.J. Shields, and J.J. Tollefson. 2010. Conducting public-sector research on commercialized transgenic seed: In search of a paradigm that works. GM Crops 1: 55-58.

Schmutz J, Cannon SB, Schlueter J, Ma J, Mitros T, Nelson W, Hyten DL, Song Q, Thelen JJ, Cheng J, Xu D, Hell-sten U, May GD, Yu Y, Sakurai T, Umezawa T, Bhattacharyya MK, Sandhu D, Valliyodan B, Lindquist E, Peto M, Grant D, Shu S, Goodstein D, Barry K, Futrell-Griggs M, Abernathy B, Du J, Tian Z, Zhu L, Gill N, Joshi T, Libault M, Sethuraman A, Zhang XC, Shinozaki K, Nguyen HT, Wing RA, Cregan P, Specht J, Grimwood J, Rokhsar D, Stacey G, Shoemaker RC, Jackson SA. 2010. Genome sequence of the palaeopolyploid soybean. Nature. Jan 14;463 (7278):178-83.

Sharp RE (2010) Nomination: “Metabolic and physical control of cell elongation rate. In vivo studies in Nitella”. Plant Physiology Classics Collection (in press).

Vuong TD, Sleper DA, Shannon JG, Nguyen HT. 2010. Novel quantitative trait loci for broad-based resistance to soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines Ichinohe) in soybean PI 567516C. Theor Appl Genet. 2010, Jun 18. [Epub ahead of print].

Wang, J., Lee, C., Replogle, A., Joshi, S., Korkin, D., Hussey, R., Baum, T.J., Davis, E.L., Wang, X. and Mitchum, M.G. (2010a) Dual roles for the variable domain in protein trafficking and host-specific recognition of Heterodera glycines CLE effector proteins. New Phytol. 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03300.x

Wang Z, Libault M, Joshi T, Valliyodan B, Nguyen HT, Xu D, Stacey G, and Cheng J. 2010. SoyDB: a knowledge database of soybean transcription factors. BMC Plant Biol. Jan 18;10:14.

Yin X, Zhang Z. 2010. Recent Patents on Plant Transgenic Technology. Recent Patents Biotechnol 4:98-111.

Zobiole, L.H., R.S. Oliveira, J.V. Visentainer, R.J. Kremer, N. Bellaloui, and T. Yamada. 2010. Glyphosate affects seed composition in glyphosate-resistant soybean. J. Agric. Food Chem. 58:4517-4522.