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
Exploring the effects of drought and salt stress on physiology, leaf reflectance, and growth dynamics of Brassica carinata, Ranadheer Reddy Vennam, Durga P.M. Chinthalapudi, Amrit Shrestha, Raju Bheemanahalli, Ramdeo Seepaul, Wei Gao, and Kambham Raja Reddy
Impact of soil moisture stress during the silk emergence and grain-filling in maize, Ranadheer Reddy Vennam, Sadikshya Poudel, Purushothaman Ramamoorthy, Sathishkumar Samiappan, K. Raja Reddy, and Raju Bheemanahalli
Developing Functional Relationships between Soil Moisture Content and Corn Early-Season Physiology, Growth, and Development, Ranadheer Reddy Vennam, Purushothaman Ramamoorthy, Sadikshya Poudel, Kambham Raja Reddy, William Brien Henry, and Raju Bheemanahalli
Unveiling Drought-Tolerant Corn Hybrids for Early-Season Drought Resilience Using Morpho-Physiological Traits, Charles Hunt Walne, Naflath Thenveettil, Purushothaman Ramamoorthy, Raju Bheemanahalli, Krishna N. Reddy, and Kambham Raja Reddy
Deep learning based high-throughput phenotyping of chalkiness in rice exposed to high night temperature, Chaoxin Wang, Doina Caragea, Nisarga Kodadinne Narayana, Nathan T. Hein, Raju Bheemanahalli, Impa M. Somayanda, and S V. Jagadish
Effects of fine grinding on mid-infrared spectroscopic analysis of plant leaf nutrient content, Caleb R. Whatley, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Raju Bheemanahalli, K Raja Reddy, and Yuzhen Lu
Can We Use Visible-Near Infrared and Mid Infrared Spectroscopy as a Tool for Wetland Soil Identification?, Caleb R. Whatley, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Chamika A. Silva, Mary Love Tagert, Raju Bheemanahalli, and Prem Parajuli
Fecal near infrared spectroscopy to discriminate physiological status in giant pandas., Erin E. Wiedower, Andrew J. Kouba, Carrie K. Vance, Rachel L. Hansen, Jerry W. Stuth, and Douglas R. Tolleson
Fine Grinding Is Needed To Maintain The High Accuracy Of Mid-Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy For Soil Property Estimation, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Yufeng Ge, Jonathan Sanderman, and Richard Ferguson
A Leaf-Level Spectral Library to Support High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping: Predictive Accuracy and Model Transfer, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Huichun Zhang, Jinliang Yang, James C. Schnable, Daniel P. Schachtman, and Yufeng Ge
Spatiotemporal Responses Of Vegetation To Hydroclimatic Factors Over Arid And Semi-Arid Climate, Brijesh Yadav, Lal Chand Malav, Shruti V. Singh, Sushil Kumar Kharia, Md Yeasin, Ram Narayan Singh, Mahaveer Nogiya, Roshan Lal Meena, Pravash Chandra Moharana, Nirmal Kumar, Ram Prasad Sharma, Gangalakunta P. Obi Reddy, Banshi Lal Mina, and Prakash Kumar Jha
Deep Transfer Learning for UAV-Based Cross-Crop Yield Prediction in Root Crops, Suraj A. Yadav, Yanbo Huang, Kenny Q. Zhu, Rayyan Haque, Wyatt Young, Lorin Harvey, Mark Hall, Xin Zhang, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Ruijun Qin, Max Feldman, Haibo Yao, and John P. Brooks
Calibrated PATH-Based Modeling and Overlapping Cylindrical Voxelization for Maize LAI Mapping Using UAS-LiDAR, Suraj A. Yadav, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Xin Zhang, Daniel McCraine, Chamika A. Silva, and Jagman Dhillon
Context-Aware Deep Learning Model for Yield Prediction in Potato Using Time-Series UAS Multispectral Data, Suraj A. Yadav, Xin Zhang, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Max Feldman, Ruijun Qin, Yanbo Huang, Sathishkumar Samiappan, Wyatt Young, and Francisco G. Tapia
Smartphone-Based High-Fidelity 3D Semantic Segmentation of Finger Millet Panicles Using 3D Gaussian Splatting for Automated Phenotyping and Yield Estimation, Yican Yang, Mohan K. Bista, Alekhya Chakravaram, Nisarga Kodadinne Narayana, Raju Bheemanahalli, Lorin Harvey, Dong Chen, and Nuwan K. Wijewardane
Beyond Flips and Rotations: Evaluating NeRF and 3DGS-Based Synthetic View Augmentation: A Case Study of Detecting Visual Skinning Damage on Sweetpotato Storage Roots, Yican Yang, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Lorin Harvey, and Xin Zhang
Sweetpotato Moisture Content and Textural Property Estimation Using Hyperspectral Imaging and Machine Learning, Yican Yang, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Lorin Harvey, and Xin Zhang
Nondestructive Detection Of Sweet Potato Leaf Curl Virus Using 3D Laser Imaging Combined With Deep Learning, Yican Yang, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Tyler J. Slonecki, Phillip A. Wadl, Sharon A. Andreason, Jingdao Chen, and Lorin Harvey
High Throughput Analysis of Leaf Chlorophyll Content in Sorghum Using RGB, Hyperspectral, and Fluorescence Imaging and Sensor Fusion, Huichun Zhang, Yufeng Ge, Xinyan Xie, Abbas Atefi, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, and Suresh Thapa
Blog Posts
How a new way of parsing COVID-19 data began to show the breadth of health gaps between Blacks and whites, David R. Buys
Meals on Wheels Volunteers Help 2.4 Million US Seniors Get Enough to Eat While Staving Off Loneliness, David R. Buys
America’s farmers are getting older, and young people aren’t rushing to join them, David R. Buys, John J. Green, and Mary Nelson Robertson
How age-friendly universities can improve the second half of life, David R. Buys and Aaron Guest
How public health partnerships are encouraging COVID-19 vaccination in Mississippi, Michigan, Indiana and South Carolina, Debra Furr-Holden, Brooke W. McKeever, David R. Buys, and Omolola Adeoye-Olatunde
Books
Precision Agriculture GIS Technologies for Mississippi, 1st. Edition, Amelia A.A. Fox
Book Chapters
Remote sensing algorithms and their applications in plant phenotyping, Raju Bheemanahalli, B. Santhana Krishnan, Nuwan Kumara Wijewardane, Sathishkumar Samiappan, and K. Raja Reddy
Food Insecurity and Hunger Among Older Adults, David R. Buys and Julie L. Locher
Conservation Agriculture Technologies For Salinity Management, Ram Kishor Fagodiya, Kamlesh Verma, Gargi Sharma, Kailash Prajapat, Renu Kumari, Raj Mukhopodhyay, and Prakash Jha
Efficient Use Of Land Resources For Regenerative Agriculture, Surabhi Hota, K. K. Mourya, Arijit Barman, Gopal Tiwari, Ajay Satpute, Ashok Kumar, R. S. Meena, Prakash Kumar Jha, Sayantan Sahu, and U. S. Saikia
Chronic Disease Prevention in Populations Across the Life Cycle, Soghra Jarvandi and David R. Buys
Foreword, Prakash Kumar Jha
Land Degradation Neutrality: Concept And Approaches, K. K. Mourya, Arijit Barman, Surabhi Hota, Gopal Tiwari, Shilpi Verma, Ashok Kumar, R. S. Meena, Prakash Kumar Jha, and U. S. Saikia
Conference Proceedings
iGenOrch: Intelligent Orchestration Framework for Multi-Model LLM Inference on Edge Platforms, Faiza Akram, Maisha Rahman Chowdhury, Gabriella Dunne, Katherine Williams, Kaleb Love, Asad Waqar Malik, and Samee U. Khan
Early Detection of Root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) infestation in cotton using hyperspectral data, Sathishkumar Samiappan, Raju Bheemanahalli, Meilun Zhou, John Brooks, and Martin Wubben
Editorials
What Does the Evidence Reveal Regarding Home- and Community-Based Nutrition Services for Older Adults?, David R. Buys and Julie L. Locher
Editorial: Addressing Climate Change In Agriculture And Natural Resources With A Focus On Adaptation And Extreme Events, Prakash Kumar Jha, Prakash Kumar Jha, Sushant Mehan, and Saswata Nandi
Others
Applied Reproductive Science: Technology, Ethics, and Management in Modern Animal Systems, Hagan Beach
Reports
Community-Engaged Research for Gulf Resilience, Devon Brenner, Brenna Jungers, and Katerina Sergi
Healthy Food Systems, Healthy People: An Initiative of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, David R. Buys and Healthy Food Systems, Healthy People
Research Data
Mississippi Sky Conditions, Joby Czarnecki, Sathishkumar Samiappan, Louis Wasson, and C. Daniel McCraine
Bt Cotton Meta-analysis Data, Daniel Fleming, Nathan Little, and Fred Musser
