ARS Newslink

ARS News Service
USDA Agricultural Research Service
January 28, 2011

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An old foe emerges for another round:
ARS this week posted the new edition of its quarterly online newsletter "Healthy Animals," which details ARS technology aimed at helping fight cattle fever ticks which were mostly eradicated from the United States in the 1940s, but are re-emerging along the Texas-Mexico border. (1/24) http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2011/110124.htm

A receding snowline:
An analysis of more than 50 years of records at ARS' premier mountain observatory in Idaho shows that climate warming is causing the rain/snow transition elevation to move upslope. (1/25) http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2011/110125.htm

Tracking the itinerary of an unwelcome visitor:
A diverse team of ARS scientists has helped Texas cotton growers track down the likely origins of a boll weevil infestation, provided guidance on how to avoid future infestations and shed light on how far the pest can travel under certain conditions. (1/26) http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2011/110126.htm

Not your run-of-the-mill collection:
ARS scientists say the agency's impressive collections of cool-season forage and turf grasses are also by default among the largest collections of endophytes, a specialized group of fungi that live symbiotically within the tissues of certain grasses-and that could actually be good news. (1/27) http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2011/110127.htm

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