Contents
1998 Research Report Main Page
Report from the Vice President for Research
Center for Laser and Photonics Research
College of Business Administration
College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology
College of Human Environmental Sciences
College of Osteopathic Medicine
College of Veterinary Medicine
Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
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Research Report archives 1993-1997
The Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources is currently strengthening its research programs in Tulsa and surrounding areas.
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Wheat plots being
harvested at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center at Goodwell
yield a lot more than grain. Research here looks at irrigation
versus dryland plantings, as well as drought-resistant wheat
that do better under the semi-arid conditions of western Oklahoma. |
Click on the buttons below to read more about ongoing experiments.
Examples of OAES research can be found at the Vegetable
Research Station at 13711 S. Mingo, just north of the Arkansas
River from Bixby....
Research continues at other Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment
Station sites around the state as well. Studies at the Wes Watkins
Agricultural Research and Extension Center (WWAREC) at Lane also
are geared toward the production of small fruits and vegetables....
OSU horticulturists and Food and Agricultural Processing
Center scientists are conducting research with support from the
Texas-Oklahoma Watermelon Growers Association to measure and
improve food safety factors and shelf life in cut melons....
Members of OSU's Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
department are studying combinations of mulch and irrigation
to promote growth on newly-established pecan trees....
OAES horticulture researchers are looking at what happens
when plant bacterial spot attacks bell peppers....
Researchers in OSU's Department of Horticulture and Landscape
Architecture also are looking at reducing the amount of plant
nutrients lost in container plant nurseries and greenhouses following
drip and sprinkler irrigation....
Another study aimed at benefiting
the environment as well as producers is the Animal Waste in Semi-Arid
Agro-Ecosystems research project located at the Panhandle Research
and Extension Center at Goodwell....
OAES wheat breeders are working
with a semi-dwarfing gene from durum wheat and another that resides
in Australian spring wheat lines to try to produce a wheat variety
that is more targeted to the dual purpose production of forage
and grain....
As a result of another wheat
research effort, the EPA provided a Section 18 emergency exemption
to the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, enabling state wheat
growers to use the herbicide Maverick on the fall, 1998 crop
for the control of cheat....
Smart machines and machines that
can "see" continue to make inroads into the agricultural
industry, and research here marks OSU as a leader rather than
a follower in these fields....
OAES agricultural economists
used a computer model called the Fed Cattle Market Simulator
(FCMS) to determine the impact public information has on price
discovery and marketing efficiency in the fed cattle market....
While there is a lot of research being conducted in Tulsa and
the Tulsa area, the OAES continues to spread its efforts across
the entire state as well, from Tom to Beaver, bringing the latest
in scientific research to all parts of Oklahoma.