Browsing Department of Agricultural Biology by Date "2015"

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      • Vegetation management and restoration species safety with aminocyclopyrachlor 

        Author(s):Getts, Thomas Jordan, author; Westra, Philip, advisor; Jacobi, William, committee member; Meiman, Paul, committee member
        Date Issued:2015
        Format:born digital; masters theses
        Aminocyclopyrachlor is a synthetic auxin herbicide in the pyrimidine carboxylic acid family, and is the only herbicide within the family. Aminocyclopyrachlor exhibits excellent herbicide activity offering multiple year ...

      • Supporting information (SI) for Gill et al. 2016 manuscript 

        Author(s):Gill, Brian A.; Kondratieff, Boris C.; Casner, Kayce L.; Encalada, Andrea C.; Flecker, Alex S.; Gannon, Dustin; Ghalambor, Cameron K.; Guayasamin, Juan M.; Poff, N. Leroy; Simmons, Mark P.; Thomas, Steven A.; Zamudio, Kelly R.; Funk, W. Chris
        Date Issued:2015
        Format:ZIP; PDF; XLSX; NEX

      • Cheliceral morphology of Solifugae (Arachnida): primary homology, terminology, and character survey 

        Author(s):Bird, Tharina Louise, author; Kondratieff, Boris, advisor; Cushing, Paula, advisor; Prendini, Lorenzo, committee member; Wharton, Robert, committee member; Laituri, Melinda, committee member
        Date Issued:2015
        Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
        Arachnids of the order Solifugae (solifuges, false spiders, sunspiders, camelspiders, Walzenspinne, windspiders) possess the largest jaws for body size in the Chelicerata. The chelicerae provide the most important character ...

      • Influence of soil properties and soil moisture on the efficacy of indaziflam and flumioxazin on Kochia scoparia 

        Author(s):Sebastian, Derek James, author; Westra, Phil, advisor; Nissen, Scott, advisor; Shaner, Dale, committee member; Barbarick, Ken, committee member
        Date Issued:2015
        Format:born digital; masters theses
        Indaziflam and flumioxazin are two broad spectrum preemergence herbicides both labeled for control of kochia (Kochia scoparia L.). There is currently limited understanding of the significant effect of soil properties and ...

      • EPSPS gene duplication in Palmer amaranth: relative fitness, inheritance, and duplication mechanism of the glyphosate resistance trait 

        Author(s):Giacomini, Darci A., author; Westra, Philip, advisor; Ward, Sarah, advisor; Leach, Jan, committee member; Preston, Christopher, committee member; Bedinger, Patricia, committee member
        Date Issued:2015
        Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
        Glyphosate resistant (GR) Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri S. Wats.) is a weedy plant species that has invaded agricultural fields in at least 25 states, raising the cost of weed control to more than 4x the original ...

      • Factors influencing the health of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) 

        Author(s):Dudley, Megan Marie, author; Tisserat, Ned A., advisor; Negron, Jose, advisor; Jacobi, William R., committee member; Shepperd, Wayne D., committee member; Newman, Steven E., committee member
        Date Issued:2015
        Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
        In Chapter 1 of this dissertation, we analyzed a series of increment cores collected from 260 adult dominant or co-dominant quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) trees from national forests across Colorado and southern ...

      • Mite and fungal associates on mountain pine beetles attacking three pines species in northern Colorado 

        Author(s):Mercado, Javier E., author; Jacobi, William R., advisor; Negron, Jose F., advisor; Tisserat, Ned, committee member; Bauerle, William L., committee member
        Date Issued:2015
        Format:born digital; doctoral dissertations
        During its life cycle, mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) interacts with phoretic organisms such as mites, nematodes, fungi, and bacteria. The types of associations these organisms establish with the mountain ...

      • Evaluation of plant root distributions in two cover types (shell disposal trenches and integrated cover system) and natural grassland at Rocky Mountain Arsenal 

        Author(s):Brown, Cini; Jamiyansharav, Khishigbayar
        Date Issued:2015
        Format:ZIP; TIFF; TXT
        This folder contains the final report and presentation PDF files for a project to evaluate plant root distributions in two cover types (Shell Disposal Trenches and Integrated Cover System) and natural grassland at Rocky ...