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The control of San Jose scale and the profitable rejuvenation of neglected orchards by spraying
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 1: The San Jose scale is the most serious insect pest of the Missouri orchards. It is capable of killing young fruit trees in two or three years and old trees become unprofitable and succumb to the attack ...
Physiological studies on parasitic fusaria with special reference to fusarium lycopersici saccardo
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
Text from pages 2-3: "Tomato Wilt, Bacterial Wilt, and Septoria Leaf Spot are the most important diseases of this plant. My studies have been with the organism causing tomato wilt, Fussarium lycopersici Sacc."
Statistical determination of the response of apple trees to cultural methods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
Text from page 1: "Within recent years the subject of orchard tillage has come to be one of much interest to the fruit growers. It is only within the last few decades that tillage has been regarded as important. This may ...
The influence of carbon dioxide and other chemicals on vegetative and reproductive activity of plants
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
It is generally accepted at the present time that the action of ether upon plants in the early stages of rest, or the resting period, is the nature of an arrest, or complete cessation of growth, and that as a result of ...
Factors favoring or opposing injuries from transplanting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1918)
"The purpose of this investigation was to determine the factors favoring or opposing the injuries following the transplanting of vegetables. The factors dealt with in this study were as follows: (a) The relation of moisture ...
A study of fruit marketing organizations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
The question that confronts the fruit grower of the present time is not only how to raise more and better fruit, but how to realize a reasonable profit on what he does produce; how to put up his product so it will reach ...
An investigation of the dipping and fumigation of nusery stock
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 3: While engaged in the work, many problems, confronting the nurserymen, concerning the eradication of San Jose scale from nursery stock, have been brought to his attention. As a result, a number of experiments ...
The Coccidae of scale insects of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from pages 1-2: Missouri stands almost surrounded by her sister states without having given her contributions to coccidology along with the others. Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio has each added much to our ...
Winter structure and development of apple buds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1917)
Text from page 2: Practical orchard experience shows that much can be done to regulate the fruitfulness of trees. It is apparent, therefore, that if the fruit grower wishes to understand the factors and influences which ...
Plant succession on Missouri strip-mined land
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1974)
There are many agencies which create successional areas--water, as flood or glacier; wind, as hurricane or tornado; volcanic activity, as ash or lava flow; or man, as seeker of energy sources, lumbering or mining. It is ...
Photoperiodic time measurement and seasonal adaptation of the southwestern corn borer, Diatraea grandiosella Dyar (Lepidoptera : Pyralidae)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)
"Photoperiodism is an adaptation which enables organisms to maintain maximum reproductive and survival efficiency under periodically changing environmental conditions. Since daylength is astronomically stable, it gives ...
Nutrition and feeding behavior of the southwestern corn borer Diatraea grandiosella Dyar (Lepidoptera : pyralidae)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
The aim of the study was: 1) to determine the nutritional requirements of the southwestern com borer for proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, minerals and vitamins, 2) to measure the effects of carbohydrates and lipids on the ...
A comparative study of the Lupinus parviflorus complex
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1972)
The taxonomic history of the genus Lupinus began with Linnaeus who adopted Tournefort's term. Even a cursory look at the subsequent history of the genus brings to the forefront the diversity of opinions that have been ...
Comparative study of the ultrastructure and metabolism of the fat body of diapausing and nondiapausing larvae of the southwestern corn borer, Diatraea grandiosella Dyar (lepidoptera : pyralidae)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1976)
"The southwestern corn borer, Diatraea grandiosella (Dyar), is a pyralid moth which enters diapause as a mature larva and is bivoltine under Missouri conditions. The bionomics of the species have been reviewed in several ...
Environmental regulation of the larval diapause of the southwestern corn borer, Diatraea grandiosella Dyar (Lepidoptera : pyralidae)
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
Diapause is a state of arrested growth or reproduction which is commonly found in insects (Lees, 1955). It may occur at any stage in the life cycle of an insect and is usually an important adaptation in the development of ...
Some correlation studies in maize
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The most common method of selecting seed corn has been for many years to pick the best ears from the crib, no consideration whatever being given to the stalks on which they were borne. Within the last few years, however, ...
An experimental study of the rest period of plants : the effect of rest period breaking agencies upon hardwood cuttings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1916)
Much work has been done within the past twenty years upon forcing into growth of plants of all kinds, hard wood twigs and pot grown plants, herbaceous perennials, bulbs, tubers, seeds and vegetables by the use of such ...
A study in the marketing of perishable fruit
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1915)
The strawberry industry has been a large factor in the development of the Ozark region. Its success is dependent upon the proper solution of a great variety of problems which cannot be solved by the growers, the shipping ...
A study of the progeny of hybridization in lupinus
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1977)
Several modes of study were undertaken utilizing hybridization between L. bilineatus and L. campestris. The study of cytology revealed the two species and their progeny to apparently be octaploid, possessing 48 (2n) ...
Bacteria concerned in the making of salt-rising bread.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1912)
Salt-rising bread is a kind of leavened bread, which is made light not by the introduction of yeast, as with yeast cakes or by mechanical aeration or by carbon dioxide liberated from chemical compounds, such as baking ...