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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
Of interest to pharmaceutical, nutritional, and biomedical researchers, as well as individuals and companies involved with alternative therapies and and herbal products, this... -
Bug Bytes sound library: stored product insect pest sounds
This archive of .wav format sound recordings provided by the ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology supports the detection and control of hidden insect... -
Current and projected research data storage needs of Agricultural Research Service researchers in 2016
The USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) recently established SCINet , which consists of a shared high performance computing resource, Ceres, and the dedicated high-speed... -
Data from: Quality controlled research weather data – USDA-ARS, Bushland, Texas
[ NOTE – 2022/05/06: this dataset is superseded by an updated version https://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/1526433 ] The dataset contains 15-minute mean weather data from the USDA-... -
Data from: Crop- and weather-dependent yield and wind erosion benefits from a conservation practices system
This dataset records several responses in a large-scale field south of Mandan, ND to two agricultural management systems, aspirational (ASP; cover crops, and retained wheat... -
Data from: Subsequent chemical and foraging ecology preferences of <i>Theocolax elegans</i> (Westwood) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) reared on two alternate stored product host insects
2.1 Source Host and Parasitoid InsectsFor all assays, 4–8-week-old R. dominica were reared on wheat, while S. oryzae were reared on wheat tempered to 13% grain moisture. To... -
Data from: The behavioral response to the putative necromones from dead Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in traps by conspecifics as a function of density and time since capture
Insect Strains and Rearing: Two field-derived strains of T. castaneum from either Eastern Kansas, collected in 2012, or Riley County, KS, collected in 2019, were used to assess... -
Data from: Non-consumptive effects of parasitoids and predators in stored products: The case of <i>Theocolax elegans </i>and other field-collected predators on the foraging of lesser grain borer and rice weevil
InsectsBeetles used in this study were obtained from stock colonies maintained at the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s (ARS) Center for Grain and Animal Health Research... -
Data from: Persistence of the Probiotic Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus Strain GG (LGG) in an In Vitro Model of the Gut Microbiome
Using the SHIME (an in vitro simulator of the human gut microbiome) we tracked the fate of the probiotic Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) over time and across colonic... -
Geospatial Measurements of Soil Electrical Conductivity, Soil Salinity, and Soil Saturation Percentage in Irrigated Farmland
These data are from soil salinity surveys conducted on California irrigated farmland between 1991 and 2017. The data consist of: (i.) geospatial field survey measurements of... -
Data from: Changes in genetic selection differentials and generation intervals in US Holstein dairy cattle as a result of genomic selection
Aggregate means for six traits (milk, fat, and protein yields, somatic cell score, length of productive life, and daughter pregnancy rate) Resources in this dataset:Resource... -
Data from: Integrated Crops and Livestock in Central North Dakota, USA: Agroecosystem Management to Buffer Soil Change
Integrated crop-livestock systems have been identified as having positive agronomic and environmental outcomes, but information documenting their long-term impact on soil... -
Data from: Establishment and dispersal of the armored scale Rhizaspidiotus donacis for biological control of Arundo donax in northern California.
Abstract from paper: The rhizome-, shoot- and leaf-feeding armoured scale Rhizaspidiotus donacis (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) was released for biological control of invasive arundo... -
Thirteen-year Stover Harvest and Tillage Effects on Corn Agroecosystem Sustainability in Iowa
This dataset includes soil health, crop biomass, and crop yield data for a 13-year corn stover harvest trial in central Iowa. Following the release in 2005 of the Billion Ton... -
Data from: A century of wild bee sampling: historical data and neural network analysis reveal ecological traits associated with species loss.
Contemporary data (2017/2018): An open area on the north side of the ESGR (GPS coordinates: 42.461808, -84.011128) was the primary site for this study as it corresponds to the... -
Dataset from: Variation in patterns of production and water-use efficiency among agroecosystems across the LTAR Network
Across agroecosystems, water is a key driver of primary production, and thus, the relationship between water and production (i.e., water-use efficiency; WUE) provides a relevant... -
Data from: Free Amino Acids and Sugars in Fifteen Sweetpotato Genotypes: Effects of Curing and Storage on Acrylamide Formation in Fried Chips
The objective of the study was to measure changes in sugars and free amino acids in 15 sweetpotato genotypes before curing, after curing, and over 10 months of storage to... -
Data from: We built it; did they come? Pollinator diversity and community structure in a post-mining prairie restoration project
Pollinator and flowering plant surveys were conducted in three mineland reclamation sites in southeast Ohio during 2019. Floral abundance, floral richness, floral evenness,... -
Data from: Exposure of dengue-1 virus to Aedes aegypti and sensitivity to insecticides
"PhD obj3 LD50 data submitted April 21 2025": applied to Table 1 of manuscript; used to calculate the lethal dose at which 25%, 50%, and 90% of the organisms (Aedes aegypti) die...