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The Abstract :: North Carolina State University :: Navel-Gazing Researchers ID Which Species Live In Our Belly Buttons (But Don’t Know Why)

The Abstract :: North Carolina State University :: Navel-Gazing Researchers ID Which Species Live In Our Belly Buttons (But Don’t Know Why) | Research from the NC Agricultural Research Service | Scoop.it

"Researchers have discovered which bacteria species are most commonly found in our bellybuttons, but have still not discovered what governs which species will be found on which people. These are the first published findings of the Belly Button Biodiversity project led by NC State’s Dr. Rob Dunn."

 

You can read the free, open acess paper here:

 

"A Jungle in There: Bacteria in Belly Buttons are Highly Diverse, but Predictable" by:

Hulcr J, Latimer AM, Henley JB, Rountree NR, Fierer N, et al. (2012) PLoS ONE 7(11): e47712.

http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047712

 

The Belly Button Diversity Project is part of the larger Dunn initiative called Your Wildlife.org.

See:

http://www.yourwildlife.org

 

and on Twitter:

@YourWild_Life

 

 

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Blustery hurricane season looms, N.C. State researchers say - Triangle Business Journal

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Statistician, Dr. Montserrat Fuentes, was part of the hurricane prediction team.

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Southeast soybean growers have ‘once in a blue moon’ opportunity this season | Soybeans content from Southeast Farm Press

Southeast soybean growers have ‘once in a blue moon’ opportunity this season | Soybeans content from Southeast Farm Press | Research from the NC Agricultural Research Service | Scoop.it
Soybean growers in the Carolina’s and Virginia have more than two million acres of beans planted this year, much of the acreage in a late-planted, double-crop combination with wheat, barley, oats and a few other winter season crops.

 

“We do not recommend spraying soybeans with a fungicide to control Asian Soybean Rust if they are not yet blooming, if they are blooming, but rust has not been confirmed within 100 miles, or if full sized seeds are present in the top of the plant (stage R6),” says North Carolina State University Soybean Specialist Jim Dunphy.

 

Visit the Soybean Rust Forecast Homepage at our North American Plant Disease Forecast Center

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/pp/soybeanrust/

 

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