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USDA Agricultural Research Service
April 19, 2013
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ARS researchers determine beneficial compounds in whole-grain rice varieties:
ARS scientists and their cooperators have provided knowledge about the chemical composition and potential bioavailability of nutritious compounds in a representative group of five colorful rice varieties, and these findings could help breeders select for these traits from among 18,000 rice samples, called accessions, at the National Small Grains Collection in Aberdeen, Idaho. (4/15) http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2013/130415.htm

User-friendly program updates phosphorus management:
A more comprehensive and consistent system for modeling phosphorus loss is now available, thanks to work by ARS scientists whose user-friendly spreadsheet program can predict field-scale phosphorus loss in runoff for a whole year, and can also be used in many different states to quantify field-scale phosphorus loss and soil phosphorus changes over 10 years for a given set of runoff, erosion, and management conditions. (4/18)
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2013/130418.htm

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