From: samodena@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu (S. A. Modena)
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: USDA/ARS Articles in Press DataBase by Email
Summary: A new database available by InterNet/BitNet Email
Keywords: agriculture USDA database email
Date: 25 Aug 92 23:25:39 GMT
Organization: Crop Science Dept., NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695-7620

Fellow Plant Telecommunicators:

FYI:  there appears to be a new service being offered via InterNet
from the USDA...."in press abstracts" giving article title, author
contact information, an interpretive summary and a technical abstract.
Using email, one does a keyword search that returns index numbers
and titles.  Then through email again, a request using the index number(s)
brings the entire entry text containing the info mention above.
I've appended a portion of a search request that explains how to use
this service.

These database can be searched via InterNet Email or BitNet Email.

Hope this information is useful to you.

Steve Modena    samodena@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu
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## Regarding your request:
   search rrdb maize dna

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                  US Department of Agriculture
                        Extension Service
            Communication, Information and Technology
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                    RESEARCH RESULTS DATABASE

The Research Results Database (RRDB) brings together short
summaries of recent research results from the USDA's
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Economic Research
Service (ERS).  New documents are added to the collection on a
monthly or bimonthly schedule.

If you would like to receive a monthly list of new RRDB titles,
send the following one-page message to almanac@esusda.gov:
   subscribe usda.rrdb
You will recieve a confirmation via electronic mail.

If you would like to obtain one or more documents from the list
of titles below, send the requests one per line to
almanac@esusda.gov using the following format:
   send rrdb xxx####
where "xxx" stands for "ars" or "ers" (letters must be in lower
case) and "####" is the document number.  The documents will
be returned to you via electronic mail.

Finally, you may conduct a simple full-text search through the
RRDB documents by sending the following message to almanac:
   search rrdb words...
For example, to get a list of documents containing the words
"corn" or "wheat", send
   search rrdb corn wheat
A list of titles found will be sent to you via electronic mail.
(Here, keyword letters may be in upper or lower case.)

If you need further information concerning the use of almanac,
send the following one-line message to almanac@esusda.gov:
   send guide
If you have other questions concerning RRDB, contact
   Steven R. Conn
   USDA Extension Service CIT
   (202) 447-8155
   sconn@es-cit.esusda.gov.

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Results of keyword search:  maize OR dna
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ARS8782          ANALYSIS OF FOCI OF ASIATIC CITRUS CANKER IN A FLORIDA CITRU
(Released 08/91)
ARS8800          POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF THE MEAIN CLASS OF REPETITIVE DNA WITHIN
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ARS9819          IMPACT OF TILLAGE ON MAIZE ROOTING PATTERNS
(Released 07/92)
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Keyword search located 25 documents.

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## Regarding your request:
   send rrdb ars8890

ARS8890          THERMAL AND GELLING PROPERTIES OF MAIZE MUTANTS FROM OH43 IN
(Released 10/91)

Interpretive Summary:
A study was conducted to accumulate information on starch characteristics
from a normal inbred line, its starch mutants, and combinations ofi
..........abbreviated........

Technical Abstract:
Starches were isolated from the maize (Zea may L.) inbred line, Oh43, and
its single mutants [amylose extender (ae), brittle-1 (bt1), brittle-2
...........abbreviated........
*CONTACT
LINDA M POLLAK
FIELD CROPS RESEARCH UNIT     (approved 09/03/91)
1405 AGRONOMY, IOWA STATE
AMES/ANKENY
IA 50011                 (515)294-7831          FTS none
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