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ALARC Highlights 2022 Editionheadline bar **DOWNLOAD the Latest Edition of ALARC Highlights** **Archive of Past Issues**  **Recent Publications** **Water Management and Conservation Research Unit** Elshikha, D.M., **Hunsaker, D.J**., Waller, P.M., **Thorp, K.R**., Dierig, D., Wang, G., Cruz, V.V., Katterman, M.E., Bronson, K., **Wall, G.W**., **Thompson, A.L**. 2022. Estimation of direct-seeded guayule cover, crop coefficient, and yield using UAS-based multispectral and RGB data. Agricultural Water Management 265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2022.107540 Elshikha, D.M., Waller, P.M., **Hunsaker, D.J.**, Dierig, D., Wang, S., Cruz, V.V., **Thorp, K.R.**, Katterman, M.E., **Bronson, K.F., Wall, G.W.**2021. Growth, water use, and crop coefficients of direct-seeded guayule with furrow and subsurface drip irrigation in Arizona. Industrial Crops and Products 170. Article 113819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2021.113819. Heyford, R.K., **Serba, D.D**., Xie, S., Ayyappan, V., Thimmapuram, J., Saha, M.C., Wu, C.H., Kalavacharla, V. 2022. Global analysis of switchgrass (*Panicum virgatum* L.) transcriptomes in response to interactive effects of drought and heat stresses. Biomed Central (BMC) Plant Biology 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-022-03477-0 Jacob, F., Vidal, T., Lesaignoux, A., Olioso, A., Weiss, M., Nerry, F., Jacquemoud, S., Gamet, P., Caillault, K., Labarre, L., **French, A.N**., Schmugge, T., Briottet, X., Lagouarde, J. 2021. A simulation-based error budget of the TES method for the design of the spectral configuration of the micro-bolometer based MISTIGRI thermal infrared sensor. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 60:1-19. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2021.3099896 Melandri, G., **Thorp, K.R**., Broeckling, C., **Thompson, A.L**., Hinze, L.L., Pauli, D. 2021. Assessing drought and heat stress-induced changes in the cotton leaf metabolome and their relationship with hyperspectral reflectance. Frontiers in Plant Science 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.751868 Pugh, A.N., **Thorp, K.R**., Gonzalez, E.M., Elshikha, D.E., Pauli, D. 2021. Comparison of image georeferencing strategies for agricultural applications of small unoccupied aircraft systems. The Plant Phenome Journal 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/ppj2.20026 **Serba, D.D**., Meng, X., Schnable, J., Bashir, E., Michaud, J., Vara Prasad, P., Perumal, R. 2021. Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals genetic mechanisms of sugarcane aphid resistance in grain sorghum. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22(13). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22137129 Srivastava, R.K., Yadav, O., Sivasakthi, K., Gupta, S., **Serba, D.D**., Choudhary, S., Govindaraj, M., Kholova, J., Tharanya, M., Tara Satyavathi, C., Singh, R.B., Bollam, S., Varshney, R.K., Gumma, M.K., Gupta, R. 2022. Breeding drought-tolerant pearl millet using conventional and genomics-assisted approaches: achievements and prospects. Frontiers in Plant Science 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.781524 **Thorp, K.R.,** Drajat, D. 2021. Deep machine learning with Sentinel satellite data to map paddy rice production stages across West Java, Indonesia. Remote Sensing of Environment 265. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112679. **Thorp, K.R.**, Calleja, S., Pauli, D., **Thompson, A.L**., Elshikha, D. 2022. Agronomic outcomes of precision irrigation management technologies with varying complexity. Transactions of the ASABE https://doi.org/10.13031/ja.14950 Wang, G., Elshikha, D.M., Katterman, M.E., Sullivan, T., Dittmar, S., Cruz, V.V., **Hunsaker, D.J**., Waller, P.M., Ray, D.T., Dierig, D.A. 2021. Irrigation effects on seasonal growth and rubber production of direct-seeded guayule. Industrial Crops and Products 177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2021.114442 **** **Plant Physiology and Genetics Research Unit** Chamarthi, S.K., Kaler, A.S., **Abdel-Haleem, H.A.**, Fritschi, F.B., Gillman, J.D., Ray, J.D., Smith, J.R., Dhanapal, A.P., King, C.A., Purcell, L.C. 2021. Identification and Confirmation of Loci Associated with Canopy Wilting in Soybean using Genome Wide Association Mapping. Frontiers in Plant Science 12. Article 698116. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.698116. Kim, J.Y. 2021. Software design for image mapping and analytics for high throughput phenotyping. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2021.106550.​ **Luo, L.L.**, Fahlgren, N., Kutchan, T., Schachtman, D.P., Ge, Y., Gesch, R.W., George, S., **Dyer, J.M.**, **Abdel-Haleem, H.A.** 2021. Discovering candidate genes related to flowering time in the spring panel of camelina sativa. Theoretical and Applied Genetics https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2021.114104. **Kimball, B.A.**, Ottman, M.J., **Pinter jr., P.J., Wall, G.W.**, Leavitt, S.W., Cheng, L., **Conley, M.M., LaMorete, R.L.**, Triggs, J.M., Gleadow, R. 2021 Data from the Arizona FACE (Free-Air CO2 Enrichment) experiments on sorghum at ample and limiting levels of water supply. Open Data Journal for Agriculture Research 7:1-10. http://doi.org/10.18174/odjar.v7i0.17936 **Thompson, A.L., Conley, M.M., Herritt, M.T., Thorp, K.R.** 2022. Response of upland cotton (*Gossypium hirsutum* L.) leaf chlorophyll content to high heat and low-soil water in the Arizona low desert. Photosynthetica 60(2):123-135. https://doi.org/10.32615/ps.2022.014 Wechsung, F., Ritter, M., **Wall, G.W.** 2021. The upper homeostatic range for the temperature-yield response of irrigated US wheat down revised from a theoretical and experimental perspective. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 307. Article 108478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108478 Zhang, J., Mcdonald, S.C., Wu, C., Ingwers, M.W., **Abdel-Haleem, H.A.**, Chen, P., Li, Z. 2022. Quantitative trait loci underlying flooding tolerance in soybean(*Glycine max*). Plant Breeding https://doi.org/10.1111/pbr.13008. **** **Pest Management and Biocontrol Research Unit** Ching'Anda, C., Atehnkeng, J., Bandyopadhyay, R., **Callicott, K.A.**, Orbach, M., Cotty, P.J., **Mehl, H.L.** 2022. Spatial and temporal population dynamics of *Aspergillus flavus* in commercial pistachio orchards in Arizona. Plant Health Progress https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-10-21-0128-RS Ching'Anda, C., Atehnkeng, J., Bandyopadhyay, R., **Callicott, K.A**., Orbach, M.J., Cotty, P.J., **Mehl, H.L.** 2021. Temperature influences on interactions among aflatoxigenic species of *Aspergillus*section*flavi* during maize colonization. Frontiers in Fungal Biology 2. Article 720276. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffunb.2021.720276 Faske, T.R., Kandel, Y., Allen, T.W., Grabau, Z.J., Kemerait, R.C., Lawrence, G.W., Lawrence, K.S., **Mehl, H.L.**, Overstreet, C., Thiessen, L.D., Wheeler, T. 2022. Meta-analysis of the field efficacy of seed- and soil-applied nematicides on *Meloidogyne incognita* and *Rotylenchulus reniformis* across the U. S. Cotton Belt. Plant Disease https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-07-21-1529-RE **Hagler, J.R., Hull, A.M., Casey, M.T., Machtley, S.A.** 2021. Use of a fluorophore to tag arthropods for mark-release-recapture type research. Journal of Insect Science 21(6):1-10. https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieab099 Heu, C.C., **Gross, R.J**., Le, K.P., **Leroy, D.M**., Fan, B., **Hull, J.J**., **Brent, C.S., Fabrick, J.A**. 2022. CRISPR-mediated knockout of cardinal and cinnabar eye pigmentation genes in the western tarnished plant bug. Scientific Reports 12:4917. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08908-4 **Hull, J.J., Brent, C.S**., Choi, M.Y., Miko, Z., Fodor, J., Fonagy, A. 2021. Molecular and functional characterization of pyrokinin-like peptides in the western tarnished plant bug *Lygus hesperus* (Hemiptera: Miridae). Insects 12(10):914. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12100914 Jiang, F., Chang, G., Li, Z., Abouzaid, M., Du, X., **Hull, J.J**., Ma, W., Lin, Y. 2021. The hsp/co-chaperone network in environmental cold adaptation of *Chilo suppressalis*. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 187:780-788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2021.07.113 Kan, C., Mendoza-Herrera, A., Levy, J., **Hull, J.J**., **Fabrick, J.A**., Tamborindeguy, C. 2021. HPE1, an effector from zebra chip pathogen interacts with tomato proteins and perturbs ubiquitinated protein accumulation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22169003 Kaur, N., **Mehl, H.L.** 2022. Distribution of G143A mutations conferring fungicide resistance in Virginia populations of *Parastagonospora nodorum* infecting wheat. Plant Health Progress 23(1):28-32. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-05-21-0082-RS Mao, C., Zhu, X., Wang, P., Huang, R., Zhoa, M., Hull, J.J., Lin, Y., Ma, W. 2021. Transgenic double-stranded RNA rice, a potential strategy for controlling striped stem borer (*Chilo suppressalis*). Pest Management Science 78:785-792. Meissle, M.*,***Naranjo, S.E.,**Romeis, J. 2022. Does Bt maize impact non-target arthropods: A global meta-analysis? Environmental Evidence https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-2382-3-7 Meissle, M.*,***Naranjo, S.E.,**Romeis, J. 2022. Database of non-target invertebrates recorded in field experiments of genetically engineered Bt maize and corresponding non-Bt maize. BMC Research Notes.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-022-06021-3 Muscato, A.J., Walsh, P., Pong, S., Pupo, A., Gross, R.J., Christie, A.E., **Hull, J.J**., Dickinson, P.S. 2021. Does differential receptor distribution underlie variable responses to a neuropeptide in the lobster cardiac system?. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 22. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22168703 Oleisky, E.R., Stanhope, M.E., **Hull, J.J**., Dickinson, P.S. 2022. Isoforms of the neuropeptide myosuppressin differentially modulate the cardiac neuromuscular system of the American lobster, *Homarus americanus*. Journal of Neurophysiology 127:702-713. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00338.2021 Oppert, B.S., Muszewska, A., Steczkiewicz, K., Šatovic-Vukšic, E., Plohl, M., **Fabrick, J.A**., Vinokurov, K.S., Koloniuk, I., Johnston, J., Smith, T.P., Guedes, R.C., Terra, W.R., Ferreira, C., Dias, R.O., Chaply, K.A., Elpidina, E.N., Tereshchenkova, V., Mitchell, M.F., Jenson, A.J., McKay, R., Shan, T., Cao, X., Xiong, C., Jiang, H., Morrison III, W.R., Koren, S., Schlipalius, D., Lorenzen, M.D., Bansal, R., Wang, Y., Perkin , L.C., Pochleau, M., Friesen, K.S., Olmstead, M.L., Scully, E.D., Campbell, J.F. 2022. The genome of *Rhyzopertha dominica*: Adaptation for success. Genes 13(3):446. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes13030446 Schmidt, M., Mao, Y., Opoku, J., **Mehl, H.L.** 2021. Enzymatic degradation is an effective means to reduce aflatoxin contamination in maize. BioMed Central (BMC)Biotechnology 21. Article 70. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12896-021-00730-6 Schutze, I., Yamamoto, P., Malaquias, J., **Herritt, M.T.**, **Merten, P.**, **Thompson, A.L**., **Naranjo, S.E**. 2022. Correlation-based network analysis of the influence of *Bemisia tabaci* feeding on photosynthesis and foliar sugar and starch composition in soybean. Insects 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13010056 Schutze, I.X**., Naranjo, S.E.**, Yamamoto, P.T. 2022. Impact of *Bemisia tabaci* MEAM1 (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) on soybean yield and quality under field conditions. Journal of Economic Entomology https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toac026 Singh, P., **Mehl, H.L**., Orbach, M.J., **Callicott, K.A**., Cotty, P.J. 2022. Genetic diversity of *Aspergillus flavus* associated with chili in Nigeria and identification of haplotypes with potential in aflatoxin mitigation. Plant Disease https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-07-21-1464-RE Sisterson, M.S., **Brent, C.S.** 2022. Nutritional and physiological regulation of glassy-winged sharpshooter oogenesis. Journal of Economic Entomology 115(2): 526-538. https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toab260 Wei, X., Aguilera, M., Langston, D.B., **Mehl, H.L**., Li, S. 2021. Identifying optimal wavelengths as disease signatures using hyperspectral sensor and machine learning. Remote Sensing 13. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13142833 Wei, X., Langston, D.B., **Mehl, H.L.** 2022. Comparison of current peanut fungicides against *Athelia rolfsii* through a laboratory bioassay of detached plant tissues. Plant Disease https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-12-21-2789-RE Zuo, Y., Shi, Y., Zhang, F., Guan, F., Zhang, J., Feyereisen, R., **Fabrick, J.A**., Yang, Y., Wu, Y. 2021. Genome mapping coupled with CRISPR gene editing reveals a P450 gene confers avermectin resistance in the beet armyworm. PLoS Genetics 17(7). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009680 **Featured Accomplishment Publications** Tabashnik, B.E., Liesner, L.R., Ellsworth, P.C., Unnithan, G.C., Fab-rick, J.A., Naranjo, S.E., Li, X., Dennehy, T.J., Antilla, L., Staten, R.T., and Carrière, Y. 2021. Transgenic cotton and sterile insect releases synergize eradication of pink bollworm a century after it invaded the United States. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 118 (1): e2019115118. (PDF) Fabrick, J.A., LeRoy, D.M., Unnithan, G.C. Yelich, A.J. Carrière, Y., Li, X., and Tabashnik, B.E. 2020. Shared and independent genetic basis of resistance to Bt toxin Cry2Ab in two strains of pink bollworm. Sci. Rep. 10: 7988. (PDF) Mathew, L.G., Ponnuraj, J., Mallappa, B., Chowdary, L.R., Zhang, J., Tay, W.T., Walsh, T.K., Gordon, K.H.J., Heckel, D.G., Downes, S., Carrière, Y., Li, X., Tabashnik, B.E., Fabrick, J.A. 2018. ABC transporter mis-splicing associated with re-sistance to Bt toxin Cry2Ab in laboratory- and field-selected pink bollworm. Sci. Rep. 8: 3531. (PDF) Fabrick, J.A., Unnithan, G.C., Yelich, A.J., DeGain, B., Mas-son, L., Zhang, J., Carrière, Y. and Tabashnik, B.E. 2015. Multi-toxin resistance enables pink bollworm survival on pyramided Bt cot-ton. Sci. Rep. 5: 16554. (PDF)


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