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We sequenced the genome through a combination of short- and long read approaches, including Illumina, 10X Genomics, and PacBio, totaling 615-fold coverage of the genome . Illumina and 10X Genomics data were assembled and scaffolded with the software package DenovoMAGIC3 , which has recently been used to assemble the allotetraploid wheat genome. We further scaffolded the genome to chromosome scale…

However, what is unusual in Figure A1 is the relatively high density observed near the tails of the distributions, at acreage ranges of 101–300 for fruits/nuts and of 201 acres or more for vegetables . Nevertheless, fruits/nuts and vegetables showed very different patterns in the very large acreage classes— only 3 percent of fruit/nut farms in…

This total includes H-2A guest workers whose highest earnings were from an agricultural employer. Primary farm workers accounted for over 80% of all workers with at least one job in California agriculture. Another 185,000 workers, or almost 20% of all agricultural workers, had at least one job with an agricultural employer but earned more from…

As earlier in the century, Oakland’s demographic shifts in the era of deindustrialization were not simply black and white, but multihued. Changing immigration policies in 1965 allowed a greater influx of Latinos into Oakland, primarily into the already heavily Mexican Fruitvale district. Many of the new arrivals worked in low-end service jobs in the industrial…

Total plant volume was calculated as the volume of a pyramid height and the two canopy widths . Data on canopy dieback for each individual were collected in fall 2016. Dieback was assessed as the actual percent of “non-green” vegetation, defined as yellow, brown, and black/gray leaves, as well as bare/defoliated stems within the canopy.…

The Chester County Food Bank offers a large social network of volunteers and affiliated institutions, such as schools. Many of the farms participating in food bank programs offer on-site visits for educational groups. Indeed, no single network typology dominates the center of Fig. 5, indicating that some farms which engage in wholesale practices may be…

Earlier feral pig mapping studies by the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study and National Feral Swine Program focused on the entire US and only county level occurrence of feral pigs. A 2015 USDA study overlapped NFSP county-based feral pig locations with data from the 2012 NAHMS study of small-enterprise swine operations, specifically whether these survey respondents…

Considering the ripening process as shown in the heat maps , and the correlation dendrogram, it is clear that most miRNAs are modulated during the developmental process. For some miRNA families, we observed the same peculiar patterns of miRNA accumulation, previously described in the grapevine miRNA atlas , e.g., an increase of accumulation toward ripening…

Additional details of the analysis are described in the Materials and Methods section. Twenty-one modules or gene subnetworks were defined and a heat map was generated displaying the module-trait relationships . The grey module is not a real module but a place to put all genes not fitting into a real module; thus, it was not…

The QR codes encode physical position in the plane in binary, as illustrated in Fig. 8.14I. They allow easy navigation to a sample without wires or thermal navigation, while simultaneously allowing the nanoSQUID sensor to stay a safe several microns away from the surface. There are a few engineering challenges associated with fabricating nanoSQUID sensors.…