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Webinar on Nematodes

May 3rd, 2012: Martin Matute presents "Plant Parasitic Nematodes: the Farmer's Hidden Enemy" at 3:00 CST on Thursday. Click here to attend. Visit the Plant Breeding Training Network to view archived webinars.

TCAP Webinar Series

April 26th, 2012: Tyson Howell and Jorge Dubcovsky present "T-CAP Canopy Spectral Reflectance: Updated Methods for 2012" at 3:00 Central. Join the Plant Breeding Training Network to receive announcements about upcoming lectures and view archived webinars.

Switchgrass Workshop

CenUSA is hosting a Switchgrass Establishment Workshop. Mar 20 2012. Attend in person or online.

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UNL Plant Breeding and Genetics Symposium

Click here to watch the recorded presentations from the 2012 UNL Plant Breeding and Genetics Symposium!
Plant Breeding Graduate Student Community
Jamie Sherman jsherman@montana.edu
Growing the Future With the loss of plant breeding positions in the public sector, there has been a loss of the infrastructure that supports plant breeding training, including a reduction in professors with plant breeding expertise, a critical mass of students often too low to provide a stimulating learning environment, and the inability to offer courses with sufficient audience. Although studies support the positive impact of a strong community on learning, currently, students are often trained in isolation. The PBTN has been established to mitigate isolation barriers that currently limit plant breeding education at most institutions and in most plant breeding work places around the world. PBTN supports online course sharing (See list of courses). The PBTN online graduate student community is a place for students around the world to make contact with other plant breeding students, providing an opportunity to exchange ideas, develop interpersonal skills (such as communication and collaboration) and build a plant breeding student community. If you have questions about the community, graduate work in plant breeding, or career oportunities, please contact us. Jamie Sherman Director-TCAP graduate community and PBTN jsherman@montana.edu Mary Brakke Director-TCAP undergraduate community brakk001@umn.edu Deana Namuth-Covert Director-Plant Breeding Training Network (PBTN) dcovert2@unl.edu This community is funded by the Triticeae CAP project.
Soil Resources 153 Fall 2011
Martha Mamo, mmamo3@unl.edu Tim Kettler, tkettler2@unl.edu
Characteristics of soils in relation to their appropriate uses and protection. Principles and practices using cooperative exercises including discussion, assessment, planning, problem-solving, writing, and presentation involving all aspects of soils.

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Featured Animations

Fotosintesis
Esta animación muestra como una molécula de clorofila captura la energía de la luz y excita un electrón para dar inicio a la fotosíntesis.
Procesos de Ionizacion, pH, y pKa
En esta animación se definen los términos Ionización, pH y pKa.
Bacteria Transformation
Illustrates the beginning stages of gene cloning. This animation shows how plasmids become recombinant and are inserted into bacteria cells. This is the second of four animations detailing the gene cloning process.

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Featured Lessons

Kid Quiz, Horticulture
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Gene Cloning Part 1: The Mechanics of Recombinant DNA This lesson describes how DNA molecules can be recombined to make recombinant DNA and how special DNA molecules called plasmids allow scientists to clone genes.
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Auxin and Auxinic Herbicide Mechanism(s) of Action - Part 2 - Advanced The selective control of broadleaf weeds in cereal grain crops by auxinic herbicides has made this group one of the most widespread and important herbicide families in use. These herbicides are thoug...
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Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) Analysis 1
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Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) The polymerase chain reaction laboratory technique is used in a variety of applications to make copies of a specific DNA sequence. This lesson describes how a PCR reaction works, what it accomplishes...
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Martha Mamo Instructor
Professor of Soil Science
UNL
mmamo3@unl.edu

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