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Grants given
to for ag study
Agricultural research at
UN-L will get a goost from a
pair of grants totaling
$163,607 .from the UJS.
Department of Agriculture's
Cooperative State Research
Service. ,
A grant of $63,664 will
support research by Anne
Vidaver and Robert Klucas
aimed at increasing the
efficiency with which bacteria
on soybean roots extract
nitrogen from the air and fix it
in the soil.
Improved strains of the
bacterium Rhizobium
japonicum have been
developed by scientists, but
they have not been able to
cprnpete with "wild" strains
already in the soil.
Vidaver, a bacteriologist in
the plant pathology
department, and Klucas, a
biochemist who has been
studying ways to increase the
working life of the rhizobia
bacteria, feel that the "wild"
bacteria may produce a
substance that poisons the
improved strains.
Learning why the improved
strains of rhizobia are not
competitive could lead to
techniques for increasing the
fixation of nitrogen in the soil
by the bacteria, thus reducing
the need to supply commercial
fertilizer and possibly improve
production.
A companion grant will
enable Kenneth, Nickerson,
' Thomas Helms, and M.G.
Boosalis to jrtudy substances
produced by a bacterium called
Bacillus thuringensis which are
poisonous to insects, but
harmless to humans.
The objective is to
eventually develop a natural
insecticide.
The scientists will extract
the poisons from concentrated
cultures of the bacteria and
test them against the cabbage
looper, European corn borer,
and army cutworm.
The research is part of the
USDA program through state
agricultural experiment
stations to provide better
methods of biological control .
of insect pests on food crops.
UN-L to sell
surplus goods
An auction will be held by
the YN-L inventory
department 6 p.m. today at
1300 N. 16th St. Surplus
university items will be sold
such as furniture and office
and laboratory equipment.
Also included are unclaimed
"lost and found" belongings
collected by Campus Security.
The university and state
agencies were canvassed to see
if the departments needed the
items hefore they were selected
for the auction.
ETV slates
puibic meeting
The Nebraska Educational
Te le vision Commission will
hold a public meeting on
Tuesday, starting at 1:30 p.m.
in the board room of the
Nebraska Educational
Telecommunications Center,
1800 North 33rd Street,
Lincoln.
Items on the agenda,
according to Commission
Secretary Jack McBride,
include: Network programming
and operations reports, reports
on the Network operating
budtet, the status of a public
radio study, and national
public television.
In addition, Raymond
Giese, Chicago, executive
dirdctor of the Central
Educational Network (CEN),
will address the commissioners.
Committee appointments
will be announced by Dr.
Philip Heckman, Crete,
chairman of the Nebraska ETV
Commission.
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"O".
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single mothers. Childbirth
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MISCELLANEOUS .
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SOUL TRAVEL-Tuesday, June
24, 7:30 p.m. 1237 R.
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Zenith component stereos except
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tape. Phone 466.9653.
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424 Receiver. Two Utah 8-inch 2
way speakers together or
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432366.
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