This study was designed to determine the relative profitability of sugar beet production relative to other enterprises competing with sugar beets for limited resources and to estimate a production response of sugar beet growers in the beet producing areas of Utah. Sugar beet producing areas in Utah were delineated. Representative farm units for beef-crop, dairy-crop, and all- crop farms were synthesized. Enterprise budgets were formulated and analysed to ascertain the relative profitableness of sugar beets compared to competing enterprises in each production area. Linear programming was used to develop the supply response portion of this study. An aggregated supply curve was derived showing the acreage response of sugar beet producers at varying sugar beet prices. Rotation for nematode control restricted annual sugar beet production to 25 percent of available sugar beet land. The price range over which it would be profitable to include sugar beets in the optimum combinations was $9.98 per ton to $14.19 per ton.

Graduation date: 2000

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This item was digitized as part of the Million Books Project led by Carnegie Mellon University and supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Cornell University coordinated the participation of land-grant and agricultural libraries in providing historical agricultural information for the digitization project; the University of Arizona Libraries, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the Office of Arid Lands Studies collaborated in the selection and provision of material for the digitization project.

This item was digitized as part of the Million Books Project led by Carnegie Mellon University and supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Cornell University coordinated the participation of land-grant and agricultural libraries in providing historical agricultural information for the digitization project; the University of Arizona Libraries, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the Office of Arid Lands Studies collaborated in the selection and provision of material for the digitization project.

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The chemicals inducers SA, BABA, and BTH were tested as seed treatment and soil drench on a partial-resistant cultivar of sugar beet grown in sand infested with the Rhizoctonia solani AG 2-2IIIB. In another series of experiments, BTH was applied as soil drench on sugar beet plants inoculated with R. solani. The chemical inducers were ineffective in reducing pre-emergence damping-off and post-emergence plant mortality. Despite these results, treatment with BTH altered the levels of expression ratios of four defence encoding genes associated with systemic resistance: chitinase, peroxidase, chalcone isomerase, and chalcone synthase. BTH sensitised sugar beet plants without the necessity of R. solani infection to up-regulate substantially the transcript level ratios of chalcS and chit3, while levels of chalcI were down-regulated levels below 1. Of interest, was the significant increase of transcript levels of chit3 in sugar beet plants infected with R. solani and treated with BTH. In conclusion, sugar beet plants were capable of over expressing selected genes in response to a chemical inducer, but contrary to what had been reported, gene activation in sugar beet as a result of BTH treatment does not confer disease resistance against R. solani.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Entomology, 2006. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Nov. 20, 2008) Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-87). Also issued in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1951. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [63]-68).