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
Colpocephalum sp. Chewing Lice (Psocodea: Menoponidae) Collected from Bald Eagles in Mississippi, Jerome Goddard, Scott Rush, and Therese A. Catanach
New State Record for Chrysomya ruffifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in Mississippi, Jerome Goddard, Jennifer Seltzer, and Florencia Meyer
Anomalous Phenology of Ixodes scapularis (Ixodida: Ixodidae) in Mississippi, Jerome Goddard, Sharon Sims, Richard G. Robbins, and Wendy C. Varnado
Molecular Detection of Rickettsia felis in Dermacentor albipictus from Mississippi, Jerome Goddard, Alyssa N. Snellgrove, Sharon Sims, Richard G. Robbins, and Wendy C. Varnado
Molecular Detection of Rickettsia felis in Dermacentor albipictus from Mississippi, Jerome Goddard, Alyssa N. Snellgrove, Sharon Sims, Richard G. Robbins, and Wendy C. Varnado
Role of the One Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum (L.), in Human and Animal Diseases, Jerome Goddard and Andrea S. Varela-Stokes
Artificial Infection of the Bed Bug With Rickettsia parkeri, Jerome Goddard, Andrea Varela-Stokes, Whitney Smith, and Kristine T. Edwards
Human Nasal Myiasis Possibly Associated with Cocaine Abuse, Jerome Goddard and Wendy C. Varnado
An Annotated List of the Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of Mississippi, Jerome Goddard, Wendy C. Varnado, and Bruce A. Harrison
Survey of Adult Ixodes scapularis Say for Disease Agents in Mississippi, Lauren Goltz, Andrea Varela-Stokes, and Jerome Goddard
Decoding plant defense: accelerating insect pest resistance with omics and high-throughput phenotyping, Revanayya M. Gothe, Arunsaikumar Karrem, Rakshith S.R. Gowda, Dhanyakumar Onkarappa, Jagdish Jaba, Seung Joon Ahn, Shashank Pathour, Kalenahalli Yogendra, and Raju Bheemanahalli
Hyperspectral Reflectance-Based Phenotyping for Quantitative Genetics in Crops: Progress and Challenges, Marcin Grzybowski, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Abbas Atefi, Yufeng Ge, and James C. Schnable
Variation in Morpho-Physiological and Metabolic Responses to Low Nitrogen Stress Across the Sorghum Association Panel, Marcin W. Grzybowski, Mackenzie Zwiener, Hongyu Jin, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Abbas Atefi, Michael J. Naldrett, Sophie Alvarez, Yufeng Ge, and James C. Schnable
Resilience of cotton cultivars to chilling stress during germination, Surabhi Gupta, Lekshmy V. Sankarapillai, K. Raja Reddy, Salliana R. Stetina, and Raju Bheemanahalli
Identification of photothermo-insensitive with climate-smart early-maturing chickpea genotypes, S. Gurumurthy, B. C. Mamatha, P. S. Basu, K. Rudresh, T. Basavaraja, Raju Bheemanahalli, Madan Pal, Prakash Jha, K. R. Soren, J. M. Nidagundi, Sammi K. Reddy, and J. Rane
Calorie Restriction in Overweight Seniors: Response of Older Adults to a Dieting Study: The CROSSROADS Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial, Marilyn C. Haas, Eric V. Bodner, Cynthia J. Brown, David Bryan, David R. Buys, Akilah Dulin Keita, Lee Anne Flagg, Amy Goss, Barbara Gower, Martha Hovater, Gary Hunter, Christine S. Ritchie, David L. Roth, Brooks C. Wingo, Jamy Ard, and Julie L. Locher
Barriers to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in the Mississippi Delta, Katharine Halfacre, David R. Buys, Megan E. Holmes, Erin King, and Jacinda Roach
From Global to Local: Testing the UNEP Environmental Vulnerability Index in a Coastal Korea Context, SaMin Han
Assessing Human Influence and Vegetative Dune Dynamics on Barrier Islands via Satellite Raster Classification, SaMin Han and Walter Hogue
Community Engagement in Climate Adaptation Planning for Coastal Resilience: A Case Study of Gangneung, SaMin Han and Jae Min Lee
Shoreline Dynamics of Barrier Islands in the Gulf of Mexico: A 30-year Comparative Analysis of Developed vs. Undeveloped Islands, SaMin Han and Timothy J. Schauwecker
Multistate Survey of American Dog Ticks (Dermacentor variabilis) for Rickettsia Species, Joy A. Hecht, Michelle E. J. Allerdice, Elizabeth A. Dykstra, Laura Mastel, Rebecca J. Eisen, Tammi L. Johnson, Holly D. Gaff, Andrea S. Varela-Stokes, Jerome Goddard, Benedict B. Pagac, Christopher D. Paddock, and Sandor E. Karpathy
Effects of Temperature, Relative Humidity, and Protective Netting on Tyrophagus putrescentiae (Schrank) (Sarcoptiformes: Acaridae) Infestation, Fungal Growth, and Product Quality of Dry Cured Hams, Jasmine D. Hendrix, Xue Zhang, Yan L. Campbell, Li Zhang, Lurdes Siberio, Christine Leick Cord, Juan L. Silva, Jerome Goddard, Taejo Kim, Thomas W. Phillips, and M. Wes Schilling
Quality and Quantity of Physical Activity Resources in the Mississippi Delta, Megan E. Holmes, Peter Summerlin, Masey Smith, Ian C. Macali, and David R. Buys
Teaching Undergraduate Economics: Emphasize Early the Meaning of Vertical Distances and of Their Summation Over Quantities, Matthew G. Interis
Phenotypic Characterization Through Identification of Gait and Coat Color Phenotype of the Mountain Pleasure Horse, A. Irons, J. Culwell, M. C. Nicodemus, M. Vandiver, E. North, C. Cavinder, L. Rios de Alvarez, and T. Williams
Valorization of Spent Coffee Grounds for Enhanced Food Sustainability, João Victor M. Ito, Oladayo E. Apalowo, Sawyer W. Smith, Amanda Bushong, and M. Wes Schilling
Seasonal Activity and Relative Abundance of Amblyomma americanum in Mississippi, Lorraine K. Jackson, Douglas M. Gaydon, and Jerome Goddard
Comparative genome analyses reveal distinct structure in the saltwater crocodile MHC., Weerachai Jaratlerdsiri, Janine Deakin, Ricardo M. Godinez, Xueyan Shan, Daniel G. Peterson, Sylvain Marthey, Eric Lyons, Fiona M. McCarthy, Sally R. Isberg, Damien P. Higgins, Amanda Y. Chong, John St. John, Travis C. Glenn, David A. Ray, and Jaime Gongora
Investigations into Outbreaks of Black Fly Attacks and Subsequent Avian Haemosporidians in Backyard-Type Poultry and Other Exposed Avian Species, Kelli Jones, Nora Johnson, Sharon Yang, John Stokes, Whitney Smith, Robert Wills, Jerome Goddard, and Andrea Varela-Stokes
Assessment of agro-morphological, physiological and yield traits diversity among tropical rice, Naqeebullah Kakar, Raju Bheemanahalli, Salah Jumaa, Edilberto Redoña, Marilyn L. Warburton, and Kambham R. Reddy
Machine Learning Ensembles, Neural Network, Hybrid And Sparse Regression Approaches For Weather Based Rainfed Cotton Yield Forecast, Girish R. Kashyap, Shankarappa Sridhara, Konapura Nagaraja Manoj, Pradeep Gopakkali, Bappa Das, Prakash Kumar Jha, and P. V. Vara Prasad
Identification of maize genes associated with host plant resistance or susceptibility to Aspergillus flavus infection and aflatoxin accumulation., Rowena Y. Kelley, W. Paul Williams, J. Erik Mylroie, Deborah L. Boykin, Jonathan W. Harper, Gary L. Windham, Arunkanth Ankala, and Xueyan Shan
Impact of climate change stressors—temperature, CO2, and UV-B—on early growth and development of different cover crop species, Tulsi P. Kharel, K. Raja Reddy, Akanksha Sehgal, Nisarga Kodadinne, Raju Bheemanahalli, Ammar B. Bhandari, Krishna N. Reddy, and Wei Gao
Analyzing Heirs' Property Prevalence and Spillover Effects in the U.S. Using Spatial Econometric Analysis, Ayoung Kim, John Green, Cassandra Johnson-Gaither, and G. Rebecca Dobbs
Analyzing Heirs' Property Prevalence and Spillover Effects in the U.S. Using Spatial Econometric Analysis, Ayoung Kim, John Green, Cassandra Johnson-Gaither, and G. Rebecca Dobbs
Improving the function of a high obesity program: Findings from community-engaged Mississippi Delta focus groups, Erin M. King, Connie Baird-Thomas, Angela Robertson, Masey Smith, and David R. Buys
Effect of Crop Density on Palmer Amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri) Emergence and Weed Density Interference Potential in a Furrow-Irrigated Rice System, Tanner A. King, Jason K. Norsworthy, Thomas R. Butts, Samuel B. Fernandes, and Gerson L. Drescher
Resilience of soybean genotypes to drought stress during the early vegetative stage, Nisarga Kodadinne Narayana, Chathurika Wijewardana, Firas A. Alsajri, K Raja Reddy, Salliana R. Stetina, and Raju Bheemanahalli
Integrating Interactive Decision Making Into Evolutionary Multiobjective Agricultural Optimization, Ian Kropp, A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, Prakash K. Jha, Elijah Spinner, and Gregorio Toscano Pulido
Genetic mapping and haplotype analysis identify novel candidate genes for high night temperature tolerance in winter wheat, Dinesh Kumar Saini, Nathan T. Hein, Impa Somayanda, Raju Bheemanahalli, Troy Ostmeyer, and S V. Jagadish
Fertilizer Type and Irrigation Frequency Affect Plant Growth, Yield, and Gas Exchange of Containerized Strawberry Cultivars, Geoffrey T. Lalk, Guihong Bi, Eric T. Stafne, and Tongyin Li
Similar Developmental Outcomes of Salamander Larvae Produced with Fresh and Cryopreserved Sperm: Implications for Amphibian Conservation, Shaina Lampert, Isabella Burger, Devin Chen, Andy Kouba, and Carrie Kouba
Mosquito Vectors of Avian Malaria in Mississippi: A First Look, David A. Larson, Jerome Goddard, and Diana C. Outlaw
Walkable and Cyclable Streets: Environmental Requirements Promoting Active Mobility, Jae Min Lee and SaMin Han
Improved Chlorophyll and Water Content Estimations at Leaf Level with a Hybrid Radiative Transfer and Machine Learning Model, Jiating Li, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Yufeng Ge, and Yeyin Shi
Quantitative field testing Heterodera glycines from metagenomic DNA samples isolated directly from soil under agronomic production., Yan Li, Gary W. Lawrence, Shien Lu, Clarissa Balbalian, and Vincent P. Klink
From Surplus to Deficit: Decoding the Fundamental Shift in US Agricultural Trade, Yi Li, Kuan-Ming Huang, Zhengfei Guan, and Xiaoli Etienne
Neighborhood Disadvantage and Life-Space Mobility Are Associated with Incident Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults, Alexander X. Lo, Andrew G. Rundle, David R. Buys, Richard E. Kennedy, Patricia Sawyer, Richard M. Allman, and Cynthia J. Brown
Robust Plant Segmentation of Color Images Based on Image Contrast Optimization, Yuzhen Lu, Sierra Young, Haifeng Wang, and Nuwan Wijewardane
Adventures in the enormous: a 1.8 million clone BAC library for the 21.7 Gb genome of loblolly pine., Zenaida V. Magbanua, Seval Ozkan, Benjamin D. Bartlett, Philippe Chouvarine, Christopher A. Saski, Aaron Liston, Richard C. Cronn, C. Dana Nelson, and Daniel G. Peterson
Impression Of Contemporary Heat Stress Complexities In Agricultural Crops: A Review, Sagun Mahajan, Priyanka Thakur, Susmita Das, Raj Paul Sharma, Sandeep Manuja, Prakash Kumar Jha, Ankit Saini, Chinmaya Sahoo, and Mohammad Reza Fayezizadeh
Magnitude of the freshwater turtle exports from the US: long term trends and early effects of newly implemented harvest management regimes., Ivana Mali, Michael W. Vandewege, Scott K. Davis, and Michael R.J. Forstner
The Impact of Temperature and Water Stress on Cotton Planting Windows and Fiber Quality in Mississippi, Jephthah Nimoh Marfo, Shrinidhi Ambinakudige, Sahila Beegum, and Kambham Raja Reddy
Impact of ultraviolet-B radiation on early-season morpho-physiological traits of indica and japonica rice genotypes, Sonal Mathur, Raju Bheemanahalli, Salah Hameed Jumaa, Naqeebullah Kakar, Vangimalla R. Reddy, Wei Gao, and Kambham Raja Reddy
Identifying Geriatric Patients at Risk for Malnutrition: A Quality Improvement Project, Lauren C. Mays, Jennifer W. Drummonds, Summer Powers, David R. Buys, and Penni I. Watts
Perceptions of Opioid Misuse in Mississippi Agricultural Communities: Focus Group Findings, Devon Meadowcroft, Mary Nelson Robertson, Marina Denny, Martha Rayner, Amanda Stone, Jeff Johnson, and David R. Buys
Solenopsis invicta x Richteri necrophagous Behavior Causes Post-mortem Lesions in Pigs Which Serve as Oviposition Sites for Diptera, Florencia Meyer, Madison D. Monroe, Heather N. Williams, and Jerome Goddard
A Proportionate Mortality Study of Mississippi's Agricultural Industry, 2017-2021, Devon Mills, Mary Nelson Robertson, Brian E. Mills, and David R. Buys
Teenagers as Health Screeners and Educators: The Evolution of the Mississippi State University Junior Master Wellness Volunteer Program and Results of a Pilot Study, Reagan Moak, David R. Buys, Ann Sansing, Jasmine Harris-Speight, Je'Kylynn Steen, and Richard D. deShazo
Altered community flammability in Florida's Apalachicola ravines and implications for the persistence of the endangered conifer Torreya taxifolia., John M. Mola, J. Morgan Varner, Erik S. Jules, and Tova Spector
Evidence of Antibodies to Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Small Mammals and Quail from Mississippi, Gail Miriam Moraru, Jerome Goddard, Alexandria Murphy, Diana Link, Jerrold L. Belant, and Andrea Varela-Stokes
Experimental Infection of Cotton Rats and Bobwhite Quail with Rickettsia parkeri, Gail Miriam Moraru, Jerome Goddard, Christopher D. Paddock, and Andrea Varela-Stokes
Observations on Host Preference and Feeding Success of Immature Amblyomma maculatum (Acari: Ixodidae), Gail Miriam Moraru, Jerome Goddard, and Andrea S. Varela-Stokes
Morphometric Analysis of Adult Dermacentor parumapertus Neumann (Acari: Ixodidae) From Various Locations Within its Geographical Range, Gail M. Moraru, José Santos Portugal, Andrea Bednarova, Sarah J. McInnis, Christopher D. Paddock, Tom Becker, Travis C. Smith, Zdenka Svobodova, and Jerome Goddard
Evolution of genome size and complexity in Pinus., Alison M. Morse, Daniel G. Peterson, M. Nurul Islam-Faridi, Katherine E. Smith, Zenaida V. Magbanua, Saul A. Garcia, Thomas L. Kubisiak, Henry V. Amerson, John E. Carlson, C. Dana Nelson, and John M. Davis
Developing functional relationships between temperature and cover crop species vegetative growth and development, Jay W. Munyon, Raju Bheemanahalli, Charles Hunt Walne, and K. Raja Reddy
Assessing a VisNIR Penetrometer System for In-Situ Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon Under Variable Soil Moisture Conditions, M. O. F. Murad, E. J. Jones, B. Minasny, A. B. McBratney, N. Wijewardane, and Y. Ge
Global analysis of lysine acetylation suggests the involvement of protein acetylation in diverse biological processes in rice (Oryza sativa)., Babi Ramesh Reddy Nallamilli, Mariola J. Edelmann, Xiaoxian Zhong, Feng Tan, Hana Mujahid, Jian Zhang, Bindu Nanduri, and Zhaohua Peng
Bovine Serum Albumin and Caffeine Enhance Activation of Sperm from the American Toad (Anaxyrus americanus), Renato E. Naranjo, Andy J. Kouba, Terri L. Roth, and Carrie K. Kouba
An Annotated List of Black Flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) Occurring in Mississippi, Tina M. Nations, Wendy C. Varnado, Audrey Harrison-Lewis, James Hunter Deerman, Sarah McInnis, and Jerome Goddard
Quantitative Simulation of Daily Groundwater Levels in the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer Using GMS-MODFLOW, Mohsen Nekooei, Prem Parajuli, Joel O. Paz, and Mary Love Tagert
Assessing Hydrological and Water Quality Responses to Dynamic Landuse Change at Watershed Scale in Mississippi, Dipesh Nepal, Prem B. Parajuli, Ying Ouyang, S. D. Filip To, and Nuwan Wijewardane
Evaluation of Wetland Area Effects on Hydrology and Water Quality at Watershed Scale, Dipesh Nepal, Prem Parajuli, Ying Ouyang, Filip To, Nuwan Wijewardane, and Vivek Venishetty
Reflectance and Interactance Spectroscopy for Detecting Root Knot Nematode Galls in Harvested Sweetpotatoes, Hoang M. Nguyen, Adrienne M. Gorny, Simon Fraher, Ali Altaqui, Jerome Maleski, Cranos Williams, Daniela S. Jones, Yuzhen Lu, Mohammed Kamruzzaman, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, and Michael W. Kudenov
Formative Research to Inform COVID-19 Vaccine Education in Mississippi, Mmesoma I. Okafor, Holli H. Seitz, Laura H. Downey, and David R. Buys
Biosolid Applications to Mississippi Soils, Larry Oldham
Nitrogen in Mississippi Soils, Larry Oldham
Phosphorus in Mississippi Soils, Larry Oldham
Soil Physical Properties in Healthy Soils, Larry Oldham
Sulfur Nutrition for Mississippi Crops and Soils, Larry Oldham
Inorganic Fertilizers For Crop Production, Larry Oldham and Keri Jones
Potassium in Mississippi Soils, Larry Oldham and Keri Jones
Waterlogging stress reduces cowpea Vigna unguiculata L.) genotypes growth, seed yield, and quality at different growth stages: Implications for developing tolerant cultivars under field conditions, Omolayo J. Olorunwa, Bikash Adhikari, Skyler Brazel, Raju Bheemanahalli, T. Casey Barickman, and K. Raja Reddy
Towards Integrated Frameworks for Assessing Bird Species Richness Using Citizen Science and Geospatial Data, Frank Juma Ong'ondo, Qingmin Meng, Domnic Kiprono Chesire, Peter Njoroge, Tariq Aqil, Hafez Ahmad, Serge Leugoue Kameni, and Philista Adhiambo Malaki
Unique Strain of Rickettsia parkeri Associated with the Hard Tick Dermacentor parumapertus Neumann in the Western United States, Christopher D. Paddock, Michelle E. J. Allerdice, Sandor E. Karpathy, William L. Nicholson, Michael L. Levin, Travis C. Smith, Tom Becker, Robert J. Delph, Robert N. Knight, Jana M. Ritter, Jeanine H. Sanders, and Jerome Goddard
Isolation of Rickettsia parkeri and Identification of a Novel Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia sp. from Gulf Coast Ticks (Amblyomma maculatum) in the United States, Christopher D. Paddock, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, John W. Sumner, Jerome Goddard, Yasmin Elshenawy, Maureen G. Metcalfe, Amanda D. Loftis, and Andrea Varela-Stokes
The Evolving Medical and Veterinary Importance of the Gulf Coast tick (Acari: Ixodidae), Christopher D. Paddock and Jerome Goddard
Distribution, Host Records, and Rickettsia Species Associated with Dermacentor parumapertus (Acari: Ixodidae) in Western North America, Christopher D. Paddock, Maria L. Zambrano, Jackson H. Paddock, Bryan Ayres, Ary Faraji, Stephen Ladd-Wilson, James R. Clover, Andrés M. López-Pérez, Lorenza Beati, James W. Mertins, Joy A. Hecht, Michelle E. J. Allerdice, Jerome Goddard, and Sandor E. Karpathy
Digital Twins: A Next-Gen Solution For Agricultural Sustainability, Abhishek Panchadi, Bipin Bastakoti, Prathiksha Raghava, and Prakash Kumar Jha
The Essential Role Of AI In Agriculture, Abhishek Panchadi, Prakash Kumar Jha, and Sushant Mehan
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem): Preliminary Analysis of the Consistency of Remote Sensing Reflectance Product over Aquatic Systems, Rejane S. Paulino, Vitor S. Martins, Cassia B. Caballero, Thainara M. A. Lima, Bingqing Liu, Akash Ashapure, and Jeremy Werdell
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem): Preliminary Analysis of the Consistency of Remote Sensing Reflectance Product over Aquatic Systems, Rejane S. Paulino, Vitor S. Martins, Cassia B. Caballero, Thainara M. A. Lima, Bingqing Liu, Akash Ashapure, and Jeremy Werdell
Low- and High-Temperature Phenotypic Diversity of Brassica carinata Genotypes for Early-Season Growth and Development, Leelawattie Persaud, Raju Bheemanahalli, Ramdeo Seepaul, K Raja Reddy, and Bisoondat Macoon
How Much Oyster is There Out There? Inaccurate Data May be the Largest Economic Risk Facing Aquaculture Producers, Daniel R. Petrolia, Frank Asche, Matt Parker, and Taryn Garlock
Blood, Sweat, and Tears: A Review of the Hematophagous, Sudophagous, and Lachryphagous Lepidoptera, David Plotkin and Jerome Goddard
Incorporating Fermented By-Products of Lactobacillus diolivorans in Food Grade Coatings Designed for Inhibition of Tyrophagus putrescentiae on Dry-Cured Hams, Hector A. Portillo, Md Shamim Howlader, Yan L. Campbell, Todd French, Taejo Kim, Jerome Goddard, El Barbary Hassan, and M. Wes Schilling
Field Observations of Questing and Dispersal by Colonized Nymphal Amblyomma maculatum Koch (Acari: Ixodidae), Jośe Santos Portugal and Jerome Goddard
Evaluation of Human Attachment by Larval Amblyomma maculatum (Acari: Ixodidae), José Santos Portugal III and Jerome Goddard
Attempts to Feed Larval Amblyomma americanum (L.) (Acari: Ixodidae) on Three Different Arthropod Hosts, José Santos Portugal III and Jerome Goddard
