Articles, reports, and other short publications produced by faculty, staff, and students affiliated with Mississippi State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Articles
Survival of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Listeria monocytogenes on Spinach and Blueberries Treated With Aqueous Chlorine Dioxide and Muscadine (Vitis rotundifolia) Extract, Angelica Abdallah, Juan L. Silva, Wes Schilling, Eric T. Stafne, and Shecoya B. White
Baseline Microbiota of Blueberries, Soil, and Irrigation Water from Blueberry Farms Located in Three Geographical Regions, Angelica Abdallah-Ruiz, Clara Esteban-Perez, Shecoya B. White, Wes Schilling, Xue Zhang, Eric T. Stafne, Alejandro Rodríguez-Magaña, Fernando Peña-Baracaldo, Carlos A. Moreno-Ortiz, and Juan L. Silva
Systems Biology Of Chromium-Plant Interaction: Insights From Omics Approaches, Abdullah, Kaiser Iqbal Wani, M. Naeem, Prakash Kumar Jha, Uday Chand Jha, Tariq Aftab, and P. V. Vara Prasad
Integration effects of soil amendments and cover crops on dryland no-till corn, A. Adeli, J. P. Brooks, D. M. Miles, J. Hu, Y. Huang, Raju Bheemanahalli, and J. N. Jenkins
Seed priming attenuates the impact of salt stress and enhances lettuce yields, Bikash Adhikari, Omolayo J. Olorunwa, Thomas E. Horgan, Jeff Wilson, T. Casey Barickman, Tongyin Li, and Raju Bheemanahalli
Morpho-physiological, leaf hyperspectral, and nutritional responses of lettuce to salt stress, Bikash Adhikari, Omolayo J. Olorunwa, Jeff Wilson, T. Casey Barickman, Kellie J. Walters, Sathishkumar Samiappan, and Raju Bheemanahalli
Impact of salt stress on physiology, leaf mass, and nutrient accumulation in romaine lettuce, B. Adhikari, O. J. Olorunwa, S. Brazel, T. C. Barickman, and R. Bheemanahalli
Advancing Sweetpotato Quality Assessment with Hyperspectral Imaging and Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Toukir Ahmed, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Yuzhen Lu, Daniela S. Jones, Michael Kudenov, Cranos Williams, Arthur Villordon, and Mohammed Kamruzzaman
National-Scale Open Cattle Feedlot Detection Using Deep Learning and High-Resolution Aerial Images: Spatial Distribution and Animal Welfare Analysis, Uilson R.V. Aires, Vitor S. Martins, Dakota J. Hester, Thainara M.A. Lima, and Lucas B. Ferreira
Phylogenetic Differentiation of Rickettsia parkeri Reveals Broad Dispersal and Distinct Clustering within North American Strains, Michelle E. J. Allerdice, Christopher D. Paddock, Joy A. Hecht, Jerome Goddard, and Sandor E. Karpathy
The Introduction of Community-Engaged Learning Into a DPD Community Nutrition Course, Marie A. K. Allsopp and David R. Buys
Morpho-Physiological, Yield, and Transgenerational Seed Germination Responses of Soybean to Temperature, Firas Ahmed Alsajri, Chathurika Wijewardana, Raju Bheemanahalli, J Trenton Irby, Jason Krutz, Bobby Golden, Vangimalla R. Reddy, and K Raja Reddy
Effects of Calorie Restriction in Obese Older Adults: The CROSSROADS Randomized Controlled Trial, Jamy D. Ard, Barbara Gower, Gary Hunter, Christine S. Ritchie, David L. Roth, Amy Goss, Brooks C. Wingo, Eric V. Bodner, Cynthia J. Brown, David Bryan, David R. Buys, Marilyn C. Haas, Akilah Dulin Keita, Lee Anne Flagg, Courtney P. Williams, and Julie L. Locher
Soil Bulk Density Estimation By A Novel Pedotransfer Function Tailored On Hilly Terrains, Owais Bashir, Shabir Ahmad Bangroo, Sheikh Amjid, Paolo Nasta, Shahid Shafai, Mario Palladino, Nicola Senesi, Rehana Rasool, Burhan U. Choudhury, Prakash Kumar Jha, Vikas Abrol, Velibor Spalevic, Paul Sestras, Negar Omidvar, Sezai Ercişli, Lizny Jaufer, and Brahim Benzougagh
Hyperspectral Reflectance-Based High Throughput Phenotyping to Assess Water-Use Efficiency in Cotton, Sahila Beegum, Muhammad Adeel Hassan, Purushothaman Ramamoorthy, Raju Bheemanahalli, Krishna N. Reddy, Vangimalla Reddy, and Kambham Raja Reddy
Developing functional relationships between waterlogging and cotton growth and physiology-towards waterlogging modeling, Sahila Beegum, Van Truong, Raju Bheemanahalli, David Brand, Vangimalla Reddy, and Kambham Raja Reddy
Survey and Phylogenetic Analysis of Leucocytozoon (Apicomplexa: Haemosporida) Parasites in Mississippi Black Flies (Diptera: Simuliidae), Jessica Lynn Ber, Jerome Goddard, Tina M. Nations, and Diana C. Outlaw
Physiological and pollen-based screening of shrub roses for hot and drought environments, Raju Bheemanahalli, Bandara Gajanayake, Suresh Lokhande, Kulvir Singh, Ramdeo Seepaul, Pam Collins, and K. Raja Reddy
Phenotyping of Southern United States Soybean Cultivars for Potential Seed Weight and Seed Quality Compositions, Raju Bheemanahalli, Sadikshya Poudel, Firas A. Alsajri, and Kambham Raja Reddy
Effects of drought and heat stresses during reproductive stage on pollen germination, yield, and leaf reflectance properties in maize (Zea mays L.), Raju Bheemanahalli, Purushothaman Ramamoorthy, Sadikshya Poudel, Sathishkumar Samiappan, Nuwan Wijewardane, and K Raja Reddy
Drought and heat stress induce differential physiological and agronomic trait responses in cotton, Mohan K. Bista, Bikash Adhikari, Lekshmy V. Sankarapillai, Brian Pieralisi, K. Raja Reddy, Johnie Jenkins, and Raju Bheemanahalli
Intensifying heat stress impacts cotton flowering and boll development efficiency, Mohan K. Bista, Nisarga Kodadinne Narayana, Alekhya Chakravaram, Brian Pieralisi, Jagmandeep Dhillon, K Raja Reddy, and Raju Bheemanahalli
Effect of Glyphosate Application as a Pre-Harvest Desiccant on Yield Components and Seed Quality of Sorghum, Nathan Rezende Blat, Brunna de Carvalho Caetano, Luiz Felipe Oliveira Silva, Givanildo Zildo da Silva, Lais Tereza Rego Torquato Reginaldo, Guilherme Braga Pereira Braz, Fellipe Machado Goulart, and Matheus de Freitas Souza
Neighborhood Disadvantage Is Associated with Depressive Symptoms but Not Depression Diagnosis in Older Adults, Courtney J. Bolstad, Reagan Moak, Cynthia J. Brown, Richard E. Kennedy, and David R. Buys
Predicting select soil health genes using hyperspectral reflectance in nematode-infected and drought stressed greenhouse cotton, John P. Brooks, Martin J. Wubben, Renotta K. Smith, Josh Waldbieser, Sathishkumar Samiappan, Purushothaman Ramamoorthy, and Raju Bheemanahalli
Genomic Analysis of an Erysipelothrix tonsillarum Isolate from Orcinus orca Indicates Conservation of Major Erysipelothrix Virulence Factors, Joshua D. Bumgarner, Christopher Scala, Caitlin E. Older, Ganwu Li, Kyoungjin Yoon, Rachel Derscheid, Esteban Soto, and Taylor I. Heckman
Meals Enhancing Nutrition After Discharge: Findings from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial, David R. Buys, Anthony D. Campbell, Alice Godfryd, Kellie Flood, Elizabeth Kitchin, Meredith L. Kilgore, Sally Allocca, and Julie L. Locher
Nutritional Risk is Associated with Low Back Pain Among Older Adults: Results from the UAB Study of Aging, David R. Buys, Marion W. Evans, Richard E. Kennedy, Julie Locher, Katie Buys, and Cynthia J. Brown
Lessons learned: Recruiting aging adults for research, David R. Buys, Sarah L. Francis, Melissa Ventura Marra, Julie L. Locher, and Ingrid E. Lofgren
Volunteers Create Backpack Meals Program to Reach Students at Risk of Weekend Hunger, David R. Buys, Abigail Gamble, and Susan Tomlinson
Social and Demographic Predictors of Nutritional Risk: Cross-sectional Analyses From the UAB Study of Aging II, David R. Buys, Richard E. Kennedy, Courtney Phillips Williams, Cynthia J. Brown, and Julie L. Locher
The National Framework for Health and Wellness: (Re)Framing the Work of Cooperative Extension for the Next Century, David R. Buys and Sonja Koukel
Cooperative Extension as a Force for Healthy, Rural Communities: Historical Perspectives and Future Directions, David R. Buys and Roger Rennekamp
The Aging Agricultural Workforce: Opportunities for Policy Development and Intervention, David R. Buys, Mary Nelson Robertson, and John J. Green
Nutritional Risk and Body Mass Index Predict Hospitalization, Nursing Home Admissions, and Mortality in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Results From the UAB Study of Aging With 8.5 Years of Follow-Up, David R. Buys, David L. Roth, Christine S. Ritchie, Patricia Sawyer, Richard M. Allman, Ellen M. Funkhouser, Martha Hovater, and Julie L. Locher
Assessing Retention in a Free Diabetes Clinic, Katie C. Buys, Cynthia Selleck, and David R. Buys
Does Participation in Home-Delivered Meals Programs Improve Outcomes for Older Adults? Results of a Systematic Review, Anthony D. Campbell, Alice Godfryd, David R. Buys, and Julie L. Locher
Use of Nets Treated With Food-Grade Coatings on Dry-Cured Ham to Control Tyrophagus putrescentiae Infestations Without Impacting Sensory Properties, Yan L. Campbell, Xue Zhang, Wenjie Shao, J. Byron Williams, Taejo Kim, Jerome Goddard, Salehe Abbar, Thomas W. Phillips, and M. Wes Schilling
A Market Basket Assessment: Prices and Availability of Healthy Foods Across SNAP-Authorized Food Outlets in Counties With High Obesity Rates in Mississippi, Elizabeth Canales, Linlin Fan, David R. Buys, and Marven D. Cantave
A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Dose-response Data: Estimating Natural Survivorship Without Abbott’s Correction and Inclusion of Overdispersion Estimates, Michael A. Caprio, Jose B. Malaquias, and Dominic Reisig
Detection of Vector-Borne Agents in Lone Star Ticks, Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae), From Mississippi, A. H. Castellaw, J. Showers, Jerome Goddard, E. F. Chenney, and A. S. Varela-Stokes
Application of artificial intelligence in insect pest identification - A review, Sourav Chakrabarty, Chandan Kumar Deb, Sudeep Marwaha, Md Ashraful Haque, Deeba Kamil, Raju Bheemanahalli, and Pathour Rajendra Shashank
Interactive effects of drought and high night temperature on physiology and yield components of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.), Alekhya Chakravaram, Lekshmy V. Sankarapillai, Sujan Poudel, and Raju Bheemanahalli
Rapid Urbanization Leads to Decline in Forest Cover and Ecosystem Services in India:, Sumanta Chatterjee, Smruthi Sagarika Mahapatra, Amaresh Kumar Nayak, Vikas Kumar Rai, Prakash Jha, and Seyed Roohollah Mousavi
Nasal Hormone Administration Can Support Ambystomid Salamander ex situ Conservation Breeding Programs, Devin M. Chen, Carrie K. Kouba, Terri L. Roth, Peter J. Allen, Nucharin Songsasen, and Andrew J. Kouba
Genetic control of source-sink relationships in grain sorghum, Anuj Chiluwal, Ramasamy Perumal, Hari P. Poudel, Kebede Muleta, Troy Ostmeyer, Lauren Fedenia, Meghnath Pokharel, Scott R. Bean, David Sebela, Raju Bheemanahalli, Halilou Oumarou, Patricia Klein, William L. Rooney, and S V. Jagadish
Drought-induced shifts in cowpea rhizoplane bacterial communities across different vegetative and reproductive stages, Durga P.M. Chinthalapudi, Nisarga Kodadinne Narayana, Sujan Poudel, John P. Brooks, Shankar Ganapathi Shanmugam, and Raju Bheemanahalli
Soil Microbial Community Shifts and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Response to Integrated Cover Cropping and Nitrogen Management in Mississippi Corn Production Systems, Durga P. M. Chinthalapudi, Joshua White, Brett Rushing, and Shankar Ganapathi Shanmugam
Soil Microbial Diversity, Stability, and Function are Enhanced by Cover Cropping: A Machine Learning-based Pooled Analysis of Mississippi Agroecosystems, Durga Purushotham Mahesh Chinthalapudi, Nisarga Kodadinne, Lahari Nekkalapudi, Namita Sinha, and Shankar Ganapathi Shanmugam
Online Grocery Purchasing in Mississippi: Associations with Broadband, Rurality, and Household Characteristics, Will Davis, Jordan W. Jones, Elizabeth Canales, Ayoung Kim, and David R. Buys
Relative Roles of Blow Flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and Invasive Fire Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Solenopsis spp.) in Carrion Decomposition, Grant D. De Jong, Florencia Meyer, and Jerome Goddard
Review of Spider Ecology during Carrion Decomposition, with a Field Study on Density and Taxa Richness in Pitfall Trap Captures of Geophilic Spiders (Aranea: Anyphaenidae, Corinnidae, Linyphiidae, Lycosidae, Salticidae), Grant D. De Jong, Florencia Meyer, and Jerome Goddard
Demographics and Professional Concerns of High Achieving Floral Designers, J. DelPrince, L. Downey, and Eric T. Stafne
Bullous Reactions to Bedbug Bites Reflect Cutaneous Vasculitis, Richard D. DeShazo, Mark F. Feldlaufer, Martin C. Mihm, and Jerome Goddard
Drought and Low Nitrogen Impact on Finger Millet Yield and Grain Nutrition, Chami Rampati Dewage, Mohan K. Bista, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, and Raju Bheemanahalli
Mississippi state and county level yield gap in corn production, Jagman Dhillon, Xiaofei Li, Raju Bheemanahalli, and Vaughn Reed
Integrin-Linked Kinases 1, 4, and 5 participate in cell wall-mediated innate immunity to leaf and root pathogens, Gizem Dimlioglu, Najmeh Najat, Emily G. Cooley, Himangi Srivastava, James H. Stevens, Norbert T. Bokros, Amanda G. Gaudin, Orion Rivers, Martin Wubben, Sorina C. Popescu, and George V. Popescu
Extension Professionals' Perceived Needs and Programmatic Responses During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Laura H. Downey, Donna J. Peterson, Tia M. Gregory, and David R. Buys
Changes in Life-Space Mobility With Loss of Relatives and Friends Among Older Adults: Results From the UAB Study of Aging, Amelia Driggers, Richard E. Kennedy, Beverly Rosa Williams, Cynthia J. Brown, and David R. Buys
Predicting Yellow Mosaic Disease Severity In Yardlong Bean Using Visible Imaging Coupled With Machine Learning Model, Abhishek Kumar Dubey, Prakash Kumar Jha, Kumari Shubha, R. N. Singh, Manisha Tamta, Sonam Sah, Santosh Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, Kirti Saurabh, Rajeev Kumar, Anup Das, P. V. Vara Prasad, and Arbind Kumar Choudhary
Leadership Tasks in Public Health: Findings from the National Board of Public Health Examiners' Job Task Analysis, Cerina Dubois, Anthony Dissen, Michael Bowen, Rick Kurz, Allison Foster, and David R. Buys
Cattle and the Natural History of Rickettsia parkeri in Mississippi, Kristine T. Edwards, Jerome Goddard, Tara L. Jones, Christopher D. Paddock, and Andrea S. Varela-Stokes
Distribution of Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Select Tissues of Experimentally Infected and Field-Collected Gulf Coast Ticks, Kristine T. Edwards, Jerome Goddard, and Andrea Varela-Stokes
Gotch Ear in a Goat: A Case Report, Kristine T. Edwards, Andrea S. Varela-Stokes, Christopher D. Paddock, and Jerome Goddard
A Trauma-Informed Approach to Child Victimization: Global and Rural Considerations, Lori Elmore-Staton, Grace N. May, David C. May, and Alisha M. Hardman
Effect of Fall-applied Residual Herbicide Mixtures on Rice Growth and Yield, Thomas W. Eubank IV, Taylor D. Burrell II, Jason A. Bond, and Thomas W. Allen
Rice Performance Following Exposure to Sub-lethal Concentrations of Paraquat at Multiple Growth Stages, Thomas W. Eubank IV, Tameka Sanders, Jason A. Bond, Thomas W. Allen, and Gregory A. Mangialardi
Sensitive Issues in Agri-health: Training Agents in Academic Detailing to Engage Farm Families on Rural Health During the Opioid Crisis, Marion W. Evans, Mary Nelson Robertson, Eki Wari, and David R. Buys
An Assessment of the Food Retail Environment in Counties with High Obesity Rates in Mississippi, Linlin Fan, Elizabeth Canales, Brent Fountain, and David R. Buys
Isolation of “Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae” (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae) in Embryonic Cells of Naturally Infected Amblyomma maculatum (Ixodida: Ixodidae), F. A. G. Ferrari, Jerome Goddard, G. M. Moraru, W. E. C. Smith, and A. S. Varela-Stokes
Ultrastructure of Presumed “Candidatus Rickettsia Andeanae” in Amblyomma maculatum (Acari: Ixodidae), F. A. G. Ferrari, Jerome Goddard, C. D. Paddock, and A. S. Varela-Stokes
Population Analyses of Amblyomma maculatum Ticks and Rickettsia parkeri Using Single-Strand Conformation Polymorphism, Flavia A. G. Ferrari, Jerome Goddard, Michael Caprio, Christopher D. Paddock, Tonya Mixson-Hayden, and Andrea S. Varela-Stokes
FieldSeg: A Scalable Agricultural Field Extraction Framework Based on the Segment Anything Model and 10-m Sentinel-2 Imagery, Lucas B. Ferreira, Vitor S. Martins, Uilson R. V. Aires, Nuwan Wijewardane, Xin Zhang, and Sathish Samiappan
Assessing the effect of cultural practices on Mississippi corn production: 2. Grain composition, Praveen Gajula, James Dew, Ramandeep Kumar Sharma, Gurpreet Kaur, Gurbir Singh, Raju Bheemanahalli, Vaughn Reed, and Jagmandeep Dhillon
Evaluating the impact of biostimulants at variable nitrogen rates in corn production, Praveen Gajula, Jagmandeep Dhillon, Ramandeep Kumar Sharma, Corey Bryant, Raju Bheemanahalli, Vaughn Reed, and Erick Larson
Application Of Calibration Transfer Techniques Between Different Mid-Infrared Spectrometers/Modules To Improve Accuracy In Estimating Soil Properties, Yasas Gamagedara, Gary Feng, Travis Waiser, Mary Love Tagert, Vitor S. Martins, and Nuwan K. Wijewardane
Spectroscopy-Based Models Outperform Pedotransfer Functions for Estimating Soil Hydraulic Properties, Yasas Gamagedara, Gary Feng, Travis Waiser, Michael Williams, Mary Love Tagert, Vitor S. Martins, and Nuwan K. Wijewardane
Comparative Analysis of Raw and Preprocessed Vis–NIR and MIR Spectra for Soil Property Estimation, Yasas Gamagedara and Nuwan K. Wijewardane
Can We Use a Mid-Infrared Fine-Ground Soil Spectral Library to Predict Non-Fine-Ground Spectra?, Yasas Gamagedara, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Gary Feng, Cathy Seybold, Michael Williams, Mary Love Tagert, and Vitor S. Martins
Current AI Research at Mississippi State University, Hussein Gharakhani, Vitor Martins, Nuwan Wijewardane, Xin Zhang, and Alex Thomasson
Evaluation Of Soil Quality Frameworks In Rice-Wheat Systems Under Integrated Nutrient Management In Indo-Gangetic Plains, Tridiv Ghosh, Bappa Das, Debashis Chakraborty, Vinod Kumar Singh, Debarup Das, Pramila Aggarwal, Abhijit Sarkar, Prakash Kumar Jha, and P. V. Vara Prasad
Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables and the Role of the Food Environment, Shannon Giscombe, Elizabeth Canales, Will Davis, Ayoung Kim, and David Buys
A Crack-and-Crevice Application Assay for Selected Insecticides to Control the Ham Mite, Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Schrank), Jerome Goddard
Essential Facts About Mosquito Control and Zika Virus, Jerome Goddard
Laboratory Assays of Various Insecticides Against Bed Bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) and Their Eggs, Jerome Goddard
Long-Term Efficacy of Various Natural or "Green" Insecticides against Bed Bugs: A Double-Blind Study, Jerome Goddard
Not All Erythema Migrans Lesions Are Lyme Disease, Jerome Goddard
Observations on Questing Activity of Adult Ixodes brunneus Koch (Acari: Ixodidae) in Mississippi, Jerome Goddard
Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Immature Amblyomma maculatum (Acari: Ixodidae) from Mississippi, Jerome Goddard, M. E. J. Allerdice, C. D. Paddock, and J. S. Portugal
What Is Going on with the Genus Dermacentor? Hybridizations, Introgressions, Oh My!, Jerome Goddard, Michelle Allerdice, J. Santos Portugal III, Gail M. Moraru, Christopher D. Paddock, and Jonas King
Laboratory Studies of Movement and Microenvironment Choices of Engorged Adult Female Amblyomma maculatum (Acari: Ixodidae), Jerome Goddard, Michael Caprio, Jennifer Bittner, Kendall Willeford, and Samuel Ward
Diffusion Rates and Dispersal Patterns of Unfed versus Recently Fed Bed Bugs (Cimex lectularius L.), Jerome Goddard, Michael Caprio, and Jerome Goddard II
Unusual Bot Fly Larva Removed From the Scalp of a Returning Traveler, Jerome Goddard, David Cross, and Carla Huston
Unidirectional En Masse Larval Dispersal of Blow Flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae), Jerome Goddard, Grant De Jong, and Florencia Meyer
Psychological Effects of Bed Bug Attacks (Cimex lectularius L.), Jerome Goddard and Richard de Shazo
Envenomation From Flood-Related Fire Ant Rafting: A Cautionary Note, Jerome Goddard and Richard D. de Shazo
Comparison of Tick Feeding Success and Vector Competence for Borrelia burgdorferi Among Immature Ixodes scapularis (Ixodida: Ixodidae) of Both Southern and Northern Clades., Jerome Goddard, Monica Embers, Andrias Hojgaard, and Joseph Piesman
New Records of Immature Ixodes brunneus Koch (Acari: Ixodidae) from Mississippi, U.S.A., Jerome Goddard, Lauren Goltz, and Richard G. Robbins
Recurring Late December Outbreaks of Adult Simulium jenningsi Group Black Flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Seminary, Mississippi, USA, Jerome Goddard and John Kevin Moulton
