New soybean pest: Trochanter mealybug

Infestations of the trochanter mealybug (Pseudococcus sorghiellus, in the Order Hemiptera, Suborder Homoptera, Superfamily Coccoidea and Family Pseudococcidae), an unarmored scale insect, were first identified in Midwestern soybean crops in 2008.  They can be found on the roots of soybeans that appear to be suffering from potassium deficiency (yellowing of the leaves).

See also...

* USDA NIFA grant - "Critical Issues: Emerging and New Plant and Animal Pests and Diseases"

* Wisconsin Pest Bulletin (v.54 n.1, 4/23/2010)

Related books & documents at UW-Madison:

* A systematic catalogue of the mealybugs of the world (Insecta, Homoptera, Coccoidea, Pseudococcidae and Putoidae) : with data on geographical distribution, host plants, biology, and economic importance

* Systematic analysis of the mealybugs in the Pseudococcus maritimus complex (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae)

* Handbook of soybean insect pests

* Pest management in soybean

* Soybean pest management in Wisconsin

* Pest management in Wisconsin field crops : a guide to managing weeds, insects, and diseases in corn, soybeans, forages, and small grains

* Some aspects of the biology and ecology of Orius insidiosus (Say) (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) and a survey of arthropods on soybeans in south central Wisconsin

* Sulfhydryl-dependent inducible phytoalexins in juvenile soybeans predict insect resistance in fully developed plants

* Low-cost technology for controlling soybean insect pests in Indonesia

* Appraisal of insect-resistant soybeans, in Economic, environmental, and social benefits of resistance in field crops

* Two-spotted spider mite management in soybean and corn

* A nucleopolyhedrovirus for control of velvetbean caterpillar in Brazilian soybeans, in Biological control : a global perspective : case studies from around the world

* Biology and management of the soybean cyst nematode

* Soybean resistance to stem-mining agromyzid beanflies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) 

* American Soybean Association diagnostic guide

* Sampling methods in soybean entomology

Related research articles:

* Biswas, J., Ghosh, A.B.. (2000). Biology of the mealybug, Planococcus minor (Maskell) on various host plants. Environment and Ecology, 18(4): 929-932.

* Thippaiah, M.; Kumar, N.G. (1999). Dysmicoccus sp. (Pseudococcidae: Homoptera): a pest of soybean in Karnataka. Insect Environment, 5(2): 70.

* Jadhav, R.G.; Madane, N.P.; Kathamale, D.K. (1996). Record of soybean as a new host in India for citrus mealybug. Insect Environment, 2(3): 90.

* Kadiata, B.D.; Mulongoy, K.; Ntonifor, N.N. (1992). A severe mealybug infestation on some tree legumes. Nitrogen fixing tree research reports, 10: 70-72.

* Srivastava, O.S. (1972). Soybean, a new host record of mealy bug, Nipaecoccus vastator (Mask.) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) in India. Indian Journal of Entomology, 34(3): 351-352.

"Communities Take Root" contest

"Communities Take Root" Contest

Edy's Fruit Bars and the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation are sponsoring a contest among communities across the country vying for your vote in order to win their own orchard!

You can vote one time each day until August 31st. 5 winners will be announced on the first of each month, from May 1st - Sept 1st.

Six Wisconsin locations are among those competing for your vote, and one of them is currently in 5th place nationwide - the brand new Bock Community Forest and Garden in Middleton, WI.

Statistics journals: High impact factors

Statistics journals - ranked by 2008 Impact Factor

1. Econometrica (UW-Madison subscriptions: online 1933-2007, print 1933-2009)
2. Biostatistics (online 2000-present)
3. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, Statistical Methodology (online 1948-present, print 1946-2005)
4. Annals of Applied Statistics (online 2007-present)
5. Journal of the American Statistical Association (online 1922-present)
6. Annals of Statistics (online 1973-present)
7. Statistical Methods in Medical Research (online 1997-present)
8. Statistical Science (online 1986-present)
9. Statistics in Medicine (online 1996-present, print 1982-2006)
10. Biometrics (online 1947-present)

[Source: Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch]

NEW! Online full run of Entomological Society of America journals

The University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries now offer access to four journals of the Entomological Society of America online, from the first issue to the present:

• Annals of the Entomological Society of America (1908+)
• Environmental Entomology (1972+)
• Journal of Economic Entomology (1908+)
• Journal of Medical Entomology (1964+)

The database interface for these journals is now Ingenta Connect.  Other full text UW Library journal subscriptions available on this platform include:

• Acta Agriculturae A
• Annals of Botany
• Botanische Jahrbücher
• Food and Foodways
• Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
• Forest Science
• Forestry
• Journal of Bryology
• Journal of Experimental Botany
• Journal of Forestry
• Journal of Heredity
• Northern Journal of Applied Forestry
• Plant and Cell Physiology
• SourceOECD Agriculture and Food
• Southern Journal of Applied Forestry
• Systematic Botany
• Taxon
• Western Journal of Applied Forestry

NEW "Go Big Read" book: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

UW-Madison's 2010-2011 choice for the "Go Big Read" common book program:

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951. A sample of her cancerous tissue, taken without her knowledge or consent, as was the custom then, turned out to provide one of the holy grails of mid-century biology: human cells that could survive--even thrive--in the lab. Known as HeLa cells, their stunning potency gave scientists a building block for countless breakthroughs, beginning with the cure for polio. Meanwhile, Henrietta's family continued to live in poverty and frequently poor health, and their discovery decades later of her unknowing contribution--and her cells' strange survival--left them full of pride, anger, and suspicion. For a decade, Skloot doggedly but compassionately gathered the threads of these stories, slowly gaining the trust of the family while helping them learn the truth about Henrietta, and with their aid she tells a rich and haunting story that asks the questions, Who owns our bodies? And who carries our memories? --Tom Nissley

Related books:

• A conspiracy of cells: one woman’s immortal legacy and the medical scandal it caused (1986)
• Race and medicine in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America (2007)
• Medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present (2006)
• Protection of human participants from risks and exploitation in biomedical research: an analysis of the law of South Africa and international ethical principles (2002)

UW-Madison dissertations & theses:

• Identification and partial characterization of kinesin and dynein from cultured HeLa cells (1989)
• The purification and characterization of HeLa cytosolic DNA polymerase α and two stimulatory proteins (1984)
• Photo cross-linking of nuclear proteins to newly replicated DNA in isolated HeLa cell nuclei (1981)
• The microtubule protein of cultured HeLa cells (1980)
• DNA chain growth and organization of replicating units in living HeLa cells and isolated HeLa nuclei (1976)
• Studies on HeLa cell nuclear DNA synthesis: the role of the cytoplasmic supernatant (1972)
• An investigation of the mechanism of hyperthermic killing of HeLa Cells (1972)
• The distribution of fluoride between media and cellular water of HeLa and L cells (1967)
• Studies on the metabolism of sodium fluoride. I. Plasma fluoride in relation to dietary fluoride in dairy cattle. II. Effects of fluoride on growth and metabolism of HeLa cells (1966)
• The metabolism of basic nuclear proteins from synchronized HeLa cells (1966)
• RNA synthesis and nuclear RNA polymerase activity of HeLa cells in relation to cell growth (1966)
• Infection and growth of Brucella strains of different virulence in HeLa cells and guinea pig mononuclear phagocytes (1962)
• The influence of puromycin on the growth of poliovirus in HeLa cells (1962)
• Phospholipid metabolism in synchronized cultures of HeLa cells (1962)
• Studies on amino acid activating enzyme in HeLa culture in varying physiological states of growth (1961)
• Studies on the growth of the Hela cell in tissue culture (1960)
• The influence of salt concentration on growth and morphology of HeLa cells (1959)