Articles, reports, and other short publications produced by faculty, staff, and students affiliated with Mississippi State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Blog Posts
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
Bed Bugs’ Biggest Impact May Be on Mental Health After an Infestation of These Bloodsucking Parasites, Jerome Goddard
Ticks Spread Plenty More For You to Worry About Beyond Lyme Disease, Jerome Goddard
Books
Precision Agriculture GIS Technologies for Mississippi, 1st. Edition, Amelia A.A. Fox
Book Chapters
Clinician's Guide to Arthropod Bites and Stings
Remote sensing algorithms and their applications in plant phenotyping, Raju Bheemanahalli, B. Santhana Krishnan, Nuwan Kumara Wijewardane, Sathishkumar Samiappan, and K. Raja Reddy
Anuran Reproduction, Ellen Bronson and Carrie K. Vance
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
Chapter 124 - Arthropods, Tongue Worms, Leeches, and Arthropod-borne Diseases, Jerome Goddard
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
Commontaries
Hallucinations in ChatGPT: A Cautionary Tale for Biomedical Researchers, Jerome Goddard
Promise or Peril: Using Genetically Modified Mosquitoes in the Fight Against Vector-Borne Disease, Afsoon Sabet and Jerome Goddard
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
Application of Assisted Reproductive Technologies for Eastern Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) Conservation, D. M. Chen, C. K. Kouba, S. S. Lampert, L. Chen, S. C. Mathes, and A. J. Kouba
Development of Hormone Therapy and Cryopreservation Techniques for the Genetic Management of Spotted Salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum), D. M. Chen, C. K. Kouba, S. S. Lampert, L. Chen, S. A. Shablin, and A. J. Kouba
Impact of Bovine Serum Albumin Concentrations on Morphology of Fowler’s toad (Anaxyrus fowleri) Sperm During Short-Term Storage, J. A. Dill, M. K. Roy, R. E. Naranjo, C. K. Kouba, and A. J. Kouba
Compounds Enhancing American Toad (Anaxyrus americanus) Sperm Activation: Beneficial Effects of Bovine Serum Albumin and Caffeine, R. E. Naranjo, A. J. Kouba, T. L. Roth, and C. K. Kouba
Bovine Serum Albumin Improves Anuran Sperm Motility and Mitochondrial Vesicle Stability During Cold Storage, M. K. Roy, R. E. Naranjo, J. A. Dill, A. J. Kouba, and C. K. Kouba
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
Preliminary Investigations into Measuring Cold Hardiness of Passiflora Hybrids, Eric Stafne, Haley Williams, Jenny Ryals, and Blair Sampson
Editorials
Survey of Mississippi Mosquito Blood Meals for Vertebrate Host Identification, Jessica Lynn Ber, Jerome Goddard, and Diana Outlaw
What Does the Evidence Reveal Regarding Home- and Community-Based Nutrition Services for Older Adults?, David R. Buys and Julie L. Locher
Seasonality of Aedes albopictus in North and Central Mississippi, Jerome Goddard, Gail M. Moraru, Kristine T. Edwards, Sarah J. McInnis, J. Hunter Deerman, Tina M. Nations, and Wendy C. Varnado
Disaster Vector Control in Mississippi After Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned, Jerome Goddard and Wendy C. Varnado
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
Insecticide Resistance Testing of Culex quinquefasciatus and Aedes albopictus from Mississippi, Sarah J. McInnis, Jerome Goddard, J. Hunter Deerman, Tina Nations, and Wendy C. Varnado
Letters
Severe Infestation of Bed Bugs in a Poultry Breeder House, Jason Cater, Danny Magee, Sue Ann Hubbard, Kristine T. Edwards, and Jerome Goddard
Rickettsia parkeri and Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae in Gulf Coast Ticks, Mississippi, USA, Flavia A. G. Ferrari, Jerome Goddard, Christopher D. Paddock, and Andrea S. Varela-Stokes
Bedbugs and Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, Jerome Goddard
The Reply, Jerome Goddard
Temporary Vision Improvement and Pain Relief after Insect Sting, Jerome Goddard and Jeff Arrigoni
Effects of Bed Bug Saliva on Human Skin, Jerome Goddard and Kristine T. Edwards
Cutaneous Lesions Due to Bites by Larval Amblyomma americanum Ticks, Jerome Goddard and J. Santos Portugal
New Records of Dermacentor albipictus (Packard) (Acari: Ixodidae) from Mississippi, U.S.A., with a Report of a New Vertebrate Class Host, Jerome Goddard, Sharon Sims, Richard G. Robbins, Scott Rush, Daniel U. Greene, and Wendy Varnado
Development and Resolution of Cutaneous Lesions Caused by Black Fly Bites (Diptera: Simuliidae), Jerome Goddard, Patricia Stewart, Hunter Deerman, Tina M. Nations, and Wendy C. Varnado
New Records for Amblyomma rotundatum Koch (Acari: Ixodidae) From the Cane Toad, Rhinella marina L. in Florida, With Notes on Identification of the Nymphs, Jerome Goddard, Chelsea Ward, Jasmine Dagg, Mary Mendonҫa, and Richard G. Robbins
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