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ARS News Service
USDA Agricultural Research Service
August 20, 2010

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A new partnership to benefit the Midwest:
ARS this week signed an agreement with the Center for Innovative Food Technology of Toledo, Ohio, to help commercialize ARS-developed technologies and promote research opportunities with businesses and universities in the Midwest. (8/16)
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2010/100816.htm

B vitamins and the aging brain:
An ARS nutritionist has collaborated in ongoing research-part of the multi-year Sacramento (Calif.) Area Latino Study on Aging, or "SALSA"-that's taken a closer look at the role the B vitamins may play in preventing decline in brain function. (8/17)
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2010/100817.htm

Next steps for ARS' Hawaiian lab:
ARS this week celebrated the start of construction of the second phase of its Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center at Hilo, Hawaii, with a traditional Hawaiian ground blessing ceremony. (8/17)
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2010/100817.2.htm

Forecasting the fate of fertilizer:
Reducing the runoff from plant nutrients that can eventually wash into the Chesapeake Bay could someday be as easy as checking the weather forecast, thanks in part to work by ARS scientists. (8/18)
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2010/100818.htm

A signed contract for repairs to a historic laboratory:
A construction contract for $12.4 million, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, has been signed to provide critical deferred maintenance to equip an historic laboratory building to do cutting-edge research at ARS' Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Md. (8/18)
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2010/100818.2.htm

A new genetic tool for improving rice:
ARS scientists have developed a new tool for improving the expression of desirable genes in rice in parts of the plant where the results will do the most good. (8/19)
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2010/100819.htm

New information about nitrogen and copper levels in a Chesapeake Bay watershed:
A comprehensive study of pollutants in a major Chesapeake Bay tributary has revealed troublesome levels of nitrogen and copper that could flow into the Bay, according to ARS scientists and their cooperators. (8/20)
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2010/100820.htm

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