Monday, December 21, 2009

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES)



The International Biometric Society has chosen Springer as the new publisher of their Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES), beginning in March 2010 (v.15). Backfiles to 2001 (v.6-14) will also be made available on SpringerLink.

JABES is a quarterly journal publishinging papers of interest to applied researchers and consultants in the agricultural, biological (including biotechnology), and environmental sciences (including natural resources). The focus of the journal is on new, interdisciplinary, and important statistical methods using real-world data.

JABES volumes from 2001-2009 (v.6-14) were previously made available from the website of the American Statistical Association. Volumes from 1996-2003 (v.1-8) will continue to be available from JSTOR.

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

American Journal of Potato Research



View and search the full run of the American Journal of Potato Research online, from 1923-2009!

UW-Madison's own John Bamberg, Professor of Horticulture, is the Editor-in-Chief of this publication of The Potato Association of America.

Our library patrons have access to 419 full-text journal titles from the same interface (SpringerLlink), as well as several reference e-books:

The American Journal of Potato Research is just one of 1000's of journals whose articles can be searched at one time, from the following subscription databases:

Monday, November 16, 2009

Journal permission changes in Proquest


The UW-Madison Libraries provide access to many databases on the Proquest platform, including:
  • ABI / Inform Global (business)
  • Alt-Press Watch (alternative and independent media)
  • Dissertations & Theses
  • Ethnic NewsWatch
  • GenderWatch
  • Hoover's Company Records
  • National Newspaper Abstracts
  • Proquest Research Library (multidisciplinary)
New Content (selected):
  • Biota Neotropica - new citation, full text, and page image coverage
  • New Zealand Journal of Ecology - new citation, abstract, full text, and page image coverage

Permission Changes (selected):

  • Annals of Botany - discontinued citation, abstract, and page image coverage
  • Behavioral Ecology - discontinued citation, abstract, and page image coverage
  • Biometrika - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Biostatistics - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Briefings in Bioinformatics - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Briefings in Functional Genomics & Proteomics - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • European Review of Agricultural Economics discontinued citation, abstract, and page image coverage
  • Glycobiology -discontinued citation, abstract, and page image coverage
  • IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics - discontinued citation, abstract and page image coverage
  • Integrative and Comparative Biology - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • International Journal on ELearning - discontinued full text, page image, and text+graphics coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching - discontinued full text and page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia - discontinued full text and page image coverage; dtation and abstract coverage continues
  • Journal of Technology and Teacher Education - discontinued full text and page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Journal of Heredity - discontinued page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Mathematical Medicine and Biology - discontinued citation, abstract, and page image coverage
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution - discontinued full text and page image coverage; citation and abstract coverage continues
  • Plant & Cell Physiology - discontinued citation, abstract and page image coverage
  • What Works in Teaching and Learning - ceased publication

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Dow Jones Factiva periodical database


The UW-Madison libraries subscribe to the Factiva database of business and finance publications, newswires, photographs and multimedia content.

New features:
  • Automated translation from Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese & Chinese (traditional and simple) into English, and vice versa

  • Exclusive online content from The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and Dow Jones Newswires

  • "Concept Explorer" uses semantic technology to connect words, ideas & people from multiple industries, including Agriculture & Forestry

Periodicals searched include:

AgExporter
AGRA Alimentation (Abstracts)
Agra Europe
Agrarisch Dagblad (Agricultural Daily) (Dutch)
Agrarnaya nauka (Russian)
Agrarwirtschaft (German)
Agrarzeitung Ernährungsdienst (German)
Agri Marketing (Abstracts)
Agribusiness (Abstracts)
Agricultural Chemical News (Abstracts)
Agricultural Research
Agriculture Week
Agropromyshlennaya gazeta Yuga Rossii (Russian)
Agrow Online Plus
AGROW World Crop Protection News
Agweek (MCT) (N.D.)
AIZ - Agrarisches Informationszentrum Pressedienst (German)
American Gardener (Abstracts)
Apply
Arable Farming (U.K.)
ASI Agricultural Supply Industry News
ASI Online Plus
Australian Cotton Outlook
Australian Farm Journal
Australian Life Scientist
Avicultura Profesional (Spanish)
Bee Culture
Biomolecular Diagnostics News
Bit (Dutch)
Boerderij (Dutch)
Boerderij Melkvee 100Plus (Dutch)
Boerderij Regionaal (Dutch)
Boerderij Verdieping (Dutch)
Cap Weekly
China Green Times (Chinese - Simplified)
China Green Times (Chinese - Traditional)
China Land and Resources Newspaper (Chinese - Simplified)
China Land and Resources Newspaper (Chinese - Traditional)
Corn & Soybean Digest
Cotton Grower (Abstracts)
Crop Science (Abstracts)
Croplife (Abstracts)
CropLife (Abstracts)
Crops (Abstracts)
Delta Farm Press
Department of Agriculture Documents
Ekonomika selskogo hozyaistva Rossii (Russian)
Europolitics Agriculture
Europolitique Agriculture (French)
Farm Chemicals (Abstracts)
Farm Chemicals International (Abstracts)
Farm Industry News
Farm Journal (Midwest/Central Edition)
Farm Weekly
Farmers Guardian
Farmers Weekly
Farmers Weekly (Abstracts)
Farming News
Feed & Grain
Feed Mix
Feed Tech
Feedmagazine Kraftfutter (German)
Focus on Intermediates & Contract Chemicals (Abstracts)
Food Review
Fruit & Veg Tech
Global Pesticide Campaigner (Abstracts)
Grain: World Markets and Trade
Greenhouse Grower (Abstracts)
Groenten en Fruit (Dutch)
Grounds Maintenance
Grower
Hay & Forage Grower
Het Schaap (Dutch)
Horticulture
Horticulture News [NZ]
Horticulture Week
Interfax: China Commodities Daily - Grain & Softs
Interfax: Food & Agriculture Report (Russian)
Interfax Food and Agriculture (Abstracts)
Interfax: Russia & CIS Food & Agriculture Weekly
Irrigation Journal
The Japan Agricultural News (Japanese)
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Kiplinger Agriculture Letter
Krestyanskaya Rossiya (Russian)
Krestyanskie vedomosti (Russian)
KZ Press-Club: Agriculture (Russian)
Land Letter
The Land
Landcare
Lesnoi region (Russian)
Lesnye novosti (Russian)
Magasin Agricole (Abstracts)
Milling & Baking News
Montana Business Quarterly
New York State Conservationist
NOVECON: Russia/CIS Agribusiness Digest (Russian)
Oilseeds: World Markets and Trade
Outlooks on Pest Management (Abstracts)
Pluimveehouderij (Dutch)
Pro
Pro Farmer
Ranch and Rural Living
Relations Culture (Abstracts)
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (Abstracts)
Resource Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World
Resource News International
Ryba Kamchatskogo kraya on-line (Russian)
Rybak Severa (Russian)
Selskaya gazeta (Russian)
Selskaya zhizn (Russian)
SinoCast Agriculture Beat
Soil Science Society of America Journal (Abstracts)
Southeast Farm Press
Southwest Farm Press
Straight Furrow [NZ]
The Tablelander
Tasmanian Country
Terra e Vita (Abstracts)
Terre & Nature (French)
The Main Report’s Profitable Agri-Business
Timber Trade Journal
Top Producer
Trekker (Dutch)
TTJ - The Timber Industry Magazine
UkrAgroConsult (Russian)
Vakblad AGF (Dutch)
The Weekly Times
Western Farm Press
What's new in Farming
Xinhua CEIS - Agricultural & Food Product News (Chinese - Simplified)
Xinhua CEIS - Agricultural & Food Product News (Chinese - Traditional)
Yard & Garden
Zemedelske Noviny (Czech Republic, Abstracts)

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Potato & late blight genomes sequenced



The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium recently announced the complete genome sequencing of the cultivated potato plant, Solanum tuberosum L.

This comes hot on the heels of the genetic sequencing of one of its infamous enemies, Phytophthora infestans, the cause of late blight.

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Monday, October 12, 2009

Agricultural water use in Wisconsin



Data estimating water use in Wisconsin have been generated every 5 years since 1950. The latest report on state-wide water use has been released by the U.S. Geological Survey, compiling data through 2005.

Since 1950, water use for irrigation, industrial, commercial, domestic, and livestock purposes has increased 333%. The largest daily use of water is for cooling at thermoelectric-power plants: 6,898 million gallons per day (Mgal/d). Other findings include:

Irrigation (non-domestic)

  • Irrigation water use = 402 million gallons per day (Mgal/d)
  • 96% is from ground-water
  • 97% is used for agriculture

  • 3% is used for golf courses, commercial landscaping, athletic fields, parks, cemeteries, sod farms, nurseries, orchards, evergreen farms, greenhouses, specialty edibles, and botanical gardens

  • Irrigated crop land = 386,000 acres

  • Portage, Waushara, and Adams counties = highest agricultural irrigation water use; these counties lead the state in the production of potatoes, corn, and vegetables (snap beans, carrots, peas, etc.)
  • Primary crops irrigated (by acreage) = assorted vegetables, corn, potatoes, soybeans, alfalfa
  • Most intensively irrigated crops = berries, potatoes, corn

Non-irrigation (agricultural)

  • Livestock use = 73 Mgal/d; 90% from ground-water
  • Clark, Grant, and Marathon counties = highest livestock water use
  • Aquaculture use = 82 Mgal/d; 52% from surface-water

Industrial

  • The paper-products industry is the largest industrial water user = 357 Mgal/d

More resources:

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Proquest/COS/CSA down: 9/26-27



Database maintenance

  • 9:00pm Saturday, September 26th - 9:00am Sunday, September 27th
  • Improvement: The New York Times will now include browse/search capability for over 3 million assigned subject terms from 1851-1993

Library tools affected include:

Monday, August 31, 2009

Broken links for U.S. government documents



The links to many U.S. government resources are currently not working.

These links, also called "PURLs" or "persistent URLs" are maintained by the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). GPO's PURL server had a significant hardware failure on August 24, 2009. The hardware has been fixed, but the process to restore online document service is on-going.

No data has been lost, and if you have a non-PURL internet address for the documents, you will still be able to reach them. Even documents hosted by GPO itself should still be available.

If you do encounter a broken PURL, do an internet search on the title, using Google or another search engine. I'm also happy to help look for a document.

Here's what a GPO PURL looks like: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS5149

And here's a MadCat library catalog record with a PURL link.

Alternate access...

...to selected government documents in the plant & insect sciences not available in print at the UW-Madison:

Friday, August 28, 2009

Upcoming events: WI Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters



"The nonprofit Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters connects people and ideas from all areas of knowledge and all walks of life to celebrate thought, culture and nature in our state and help solve our common problems."

In 2006, The Academy sponsored a state-wide public policy program on "The Future of Farming and Rural Life in Wisconsin."

Selected upcoming events:

September 29, 2009
"Green Jobs: Growing Wisconsin Employment"
Discovery World Museum, Milwaukee, WI

October 13, 2009
"The Future of Farming and Rural Life: Reconnecting with Wisconsin Values and the Lost Art of Citizenship"
Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI

November 15, 2009
"Heat Waves and High Water: Climate Change, Public Health, and the 2050 Wisconsin Landscape"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

March 16, 2010
"What's Driving My Car? 2050 Biofuels and Other Sustainable Energy Sources"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

May 11, 2010
"Why Third World Migrants Will Disappear from the United States by 2050"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Andrew Bent honored by Am. Phytopathological Society


Dr. Andrew F. Bent, a faculty member in the UW-Madison department of Plant Pathology, is the 2009 winner of the Noel Keen Award for Research Excellence in Molecular Plant Pathology from the American Phytopathological Society.

This award recognizes contributions to "the understanding of molecular aspects of host-pathogen interactions, plant pathogens or plant-associated microbes, or molecular biology of disease development or defense mechanisms."

Dr. Bent's current research is focused on:
  • Leucine-rich repeat (LRR) structure/function, and plant detection of bacterial flagellin
  • Study and manipulation of disease resistance in soybean
  • Previously unidentified biochemical responses of plants to pathogen infection

Recent publications:

Adams-Phillips. L., J. Wan, X. Tan, F.M. Dunning, B.C. Meyers, R.W. Michelmore & A.F. Bent. 2008. Discovery of ADP-ribosylation and other plant defense pathway elements through expression profiling of four different Arabidopsis-Pseudomonas R/avr interactions. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 21(5): 646-657.


Bent, A. & D. Mackey. 2007. Elicitors, effectors and R genes: The new paradigm and a lifetime supply of questions. Annual Review of Phytopathology 45: 399-436.


Bent, A.F. 2006. Arabidopsis thaliana floral dip transformation method. In: Agrobacterium Protocols (K. Wang, Ed.). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press. Methods in Molecular Biology 343: 87-103.


Briggs, A.G., L.C. Adams-Phillips, A.F. Bent. 2009. Poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation and host-pathogen interactions [Meeting abstract]. Phytopathology 99(6): S16.


Dunning, F.M., W. Sun, K.L. Jansen, L. Helft & A.F. Bent. 2007. Identification and mutational analysis of Arabidopsis FLS2 Leucine-Rich Repeat domain residues that contribute to flagellin perception. Plant Cell 19(10): 3297-3313.


Bent, A.F., T.K. Hoffman, J.S. Schmidt, G.L. Hartman, D.D. Hoffman, X. Ping & M.L. Tucker. 2006. Disease- and performance-related traits of ethylene-insensitive soybean. Crop Science 43: 893-901.


Genger, R.K., G.I. Jurkowski, J.M. McDowell, H. Lu, H.W. Jung, J.T. Greenberg and A.F. Bent. 2008. Signaling pathways that regulate the enhanced disease resistance of Arabidopsis "defense, no death" mutants. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 21(10): 1285-1296.

MacGuidwin, A.E., A.F. Bent, D.I. Rouse. 2006. Active learning in "Plants, Parasites, and People" [Meeting abstract]. Phytopathology 96(6): S159-S160.

Suarez-Rodriguez M.C., L. Adams-Phillips, Y. Liu, H. Wang, S.H. Su, P.J. Jester, S. Zhang, A.F. Bent & P.J. Krysan. 2007. MEKK1 is required for flg22-induced MPK4 activation in Arabidopsis plants. Plant Physiology 143(2): 661-669.


Sun, W., F.M. Dunning, C. Pfund, R. Weingarten & A.F. Bent. 2006. Within-species flagellin polymorphism in Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris and its impact on elicitation of Arabidopsis FLS2-dependent defenses. Plant Cell 18: 764-779.


Tan, X.P., B.C. Meyers, A. Kozik, M. Al West, M. Morgante, D.A. St. Clair, A.F. Bent, R.W. Michelmore. 2007. Global expression analysis of nucleotide binding site-leucine rich repeat-encoding and related genes in Arabidopsis. BMC Plant Biology 7(56).