Agriculture and Plant Science. (Divisional Reports).The Agriculture and Plant Science Division met on Thursday, February 21, 2002. Fifteen divisional talks and 9 posters were presented in this session of the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences in Biloxi, MS. Estimates of attendance overall exceeded fifty individuals throughout the meeting. Subjects of research presented this year included: the effect of muscadine grapefiber and wheatbran fiber on cecal cecal /ce·cal/ (se´k'l) 1. ending in a blind passage. 2. pertaining to the cecum. ce·cal adj. Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of the cecum. butyric acid, fecal output, and weight gain in rats, phytoremediation phy·to·re·me·di·a·tion n. The use of plants and trees to remove or neutralize contaminants, as in polluted soil or water. phytoremediation See under bioremediation. of metal contaminated soil and sediments, reducing off-flavor in catfish and risk of Vibrio infection from raw oysters, performance of apple, pear, blueberries, yardlong bean, sweet potato, muscadine, cowpea cowpea, black-eyed pea, or black-eyed bean, annual legume (Vigna sinensis) of the pulse family. Introduced in the early 18th cent. and other plants under different environmental conditions in Mississippi, enhancing farm efficiency and profitability in selected MS counties, resolving relationships among Narcissus cultivars and other aspects of plant science research. Awards were presented for two student presentations. D. Marshall won the first place award for graduate student oral presentation. In addition to a certificate, Ms Marshall also received a $100 cash award. K. Shumaker and J. Spiers won the second and third place awards, respectively. Both received certificates plus $60 cash award for Ms Shumaker and $30 cash award for Mr. Spiers. Honorable mention went to Ms A. Butler and Mr. A. Al-qurashi, who both received certificates and $25 cash awards each. Ms A. Jones was awarded $30 in recognition for her oral presentation as an undergraduate student. The cash awards were generously provided by the Mississippi Nurserymen Association, and the Riverhills Bank and the Farmers Cooperative, both of Port Gibson, MS. The certificates were prepared and donated by the Department of Biology, Jackson State University Jackson State University, often abridged as Jackson State or by its initials JSU is a historically black university located in Jackson, Mississippi founded in 1877. , Jackson, MS. During the Divisional Business Meeting, which was held following the final session, Vice-chair Dr. Girish Panicker, USDA USDA, n.pr See United States Department of Agriculture. Project Coordinator at Alcorn State University Alcorn State University, located near Lorman, Mississippi, United States, is a public land grant university. It was founded in 1871 as the nation's first state-supported higher education institution for blacks. was elected to Chair the Division for 2002-2003. Dr. Juan Silva, Professor of Food Science and Technology at Mississippi State University Mississippi State University, at Mississippi State, near Starkville; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1878 as an agricultural and mechanical college, opened 1880. From 1932 to 1958 it was known as Mississippi State College. was elected to the Vice-chair position. |
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