College of Agriculture
As the foundation of the land grant mission at Montana State University, the College of Agriculture and the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station provide instruction in traditional and innovative degree programs and conduct research on old and new challenges for Montana’s agricultural community. This integration creates opportunities for students and faculty to excel through hands-on learning, to serve through campus and community engagement, to explore unique solutions to distinct and interesting questions and to connect Montanans with the global community through research discoveries and outreach.
Sub-communities within this community
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Agricultural Economics & Economics
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Agricultural Education
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Animal & Range Sciences
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Plant Sciences & Plant Pathology
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Research Centers
ag.montana.edu/departments/researchcenters.htm
Recent Submissions
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Distinct Microbial Assemblage Structure and Archaeal Diversity in Sediments of Arctic Thermokarst Lakes Differing in Methane Sources
(2018-06)Developing a microbial ecological understanding of Arctic thermokarst lake sediments in a geochemical context is an essential first step toward comprehending the contributions of these systems to greenhouse gas emissions, ... -
The Emergence of Endophytic Microbes and Their Biological Promise
(2018-05)As is true with animal species, plants also have an associated microflora including endophytes as well as microbes associated with the phyllosphere and rhizosphere (plant surfaces) and this is considered the plant microbiome. ... -
Antifungal Activities of Volatile Secondary Metabolites of Four Diaporthe Strains Isolated from Catharanthus roseus
(2018-05)Four endophytic fungi were isolated from the medicinal plant, Catharanthus roseus, and were identified as Diaporthe spp. with partial translation elongation factor 1-alpha (TEF1), beta-tubulin (TUB), histone H3 (HIS), ... -
A large-scale multiomics analysis of wheat stem solidness and the wheat stem sawfly feeding response, and syntenic associations in barley, Brachypodium, and rice
(2018-02)The wheat stem sawfly (WSS), Cephus cinctus Norton (Hymenoptera: Cephidae), is an important pest of wheat and other cereals, threatening the quality and quantity of grain production. WSS larvae feed and develop inside the ... -
Archaeal Viruses from High-Temperature Environments
(2018-02)Archaeal viruses are some of the most enigmatic viruses known, due to the small number that have been characterized to date. The number of known archaeal viruses lags behind known bacteriophages by over an order of magnitude. ... -
Eddy covariance measurements of methane flux at a tropical peat forest in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
(2018-05)Tropical biogenic sources are a likely cause of the recent increase in global atmospheric methane concentration. To improve our understanding of tropical methane sources, we used the eddy covariance technique to measure ... -
Toward a socioecological theory of forest macrosystems
(2018-04)The implications of cumulative land-use decisions and shifting climate on forests, require us to integrate our understanding of ecosystems, markets, policy, and resource management into a social-ecological system. Humans ... -
Domestication of Pea (Pisum sativum L.): The Case of the Abyssinian Pea
(2018-04)Phylogenetic relationships of the Abyssinian pea (Pisum sativum ssp. abyssinicum) to other subspecies and species in the genus were investigated to test between different hypotheses regarding its origin and domestication. ... -
Field efficacy of insect pathogen, botanical and jasmonic acid for the management of wheat midge Sitodiplosis mosellana the impact on adult parasitoid ... populations in spring wheat
(2017-10)The wheat midge, Sitodiplosis mosellana, is a serious pest of wheat worldwide. In North America, management of S. mosellana in spring wheat relies on the timely application of pesticides, based on midge adults levels caught ... -
An evaluation of semi-empirical models for partitioning photosynthetically active radiation into diffuse and direct beam components
(2018-02)Photosynthesis is more efficient under diffuse than direct beam photosynthetically activeradiation (PAR) per unit PAR, but diffuse PAR is infrequently measured at research sites. We examine fourcommonly used semiempirical ... -
Energy, water, and carbon fluxes in a loblolly pine stand: Results from uniform and gappy canopy models with comparisons to eddy flux data
(2009-12)This study investigates the impacts of canopy structure specification on modeling net radiation (Rn), latent heat flux (LE) and net photosynthesis (An) by coupling two contrasting radiation transfer models with a two‐leaf ... -
Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of CO2 in relation to climate: a cross-biome analysis across multiple time scales
(2009-10)The net ecosystem exchange of CO2 (NEE) varies at time scales from seconds to years and longer via the response of its components, gross ecosystem productivity (GEP) and ecosystem respiration (RE), to physical and biological ... -
Improving land surface models with FLUXNET data
(2009-07)There is a growing consensus that land surface models (LSMs) that simulate terrestrial biosphere exchanges of matter and energy must be better constrained with data to quantify and address their uncertainties. FLUXNET, an ... -
The structure of turbulence near a tall forest edge: The backward facing step flow analogy
(2000-09)Flow disturbances near tall forest edges are receiving significant attention in diverse disciplines including ecology, forest management, meteorology, and fluid mechanics. Current theories suggest that near a forest edge, ... -
The Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem of the Tibetan highlands - Origin, functioning and degradation of the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem: Kobresia pastures of Tibet.
(2018-01)With 450,000 km^2 Kobresia (syn. Carex) pygmaea dominated pastures in the eastern Tibetan highlands are the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem forming a durable turf cover at 3000–6000 m a.s.l. Kobresia's resilience ... -
Separating the effects of albedo from eco-physiological changes on surface temperature along a successional chronosequence in the southeastern US.
(2007-11)In the southeastern United States (SE), the conversion of abandoned agricultural land to forests is the dominant feature of land‐cover change. However, few attempts have been made to quantify the impact of such conversion ... -
On the spectrum of soil moisture in a shallow-rooted uniform pine forest: from hourly to inter-annual scales
(2007-05)The spectrum of soil moisture content at scales ranging from 1 hour to 8 years is analyzed for a site whose hydrologic balance is primarily governed by precipitation (p), and evapotranspiration (ET). The site is a uniformly ... -
Hydrologic and atmospheric controls on convective precipitation events in a southeastern US mosaic landscape
(2007-03)The pathway to summertime convective precipitation remains a vexing research problem because of the nonlinear feedback between soil moisture content and the atmosphere. Understanding this feedback is important to the ... -
Modeling nighttime ecosystem respiration from measured CO2 concentration and air temperature profiles using inverse methods
(2006-03)A major challenge for quantifying ecosystem carbon budgets from micrometeorological methods remains nighttime ecosystem respiration. An earlier study utilized a constrained source optimization (CSO) method using inverse ... -
Convective suppression before and during the United States Northern Great Plains flash drought of 2017
(2018-08)Flash droughts tend to be disproportionately destructive because they intensify rapidly and are difficult to prepare for. We demonstrate that the 2017 US Northern Great Plains (NGP) flash drought was preceded by a breakdown ...
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