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TAME Melaleuca (collaborative effort between U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service and University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, South Florida Water Management District, and others)

Prepared by: American Sheep Industry Association

Provides listing of Technical Guides (TGs). Various guides are relevant to pest managment and invasive species issues.

Tellus, is the new digital platform to showcase USDA, ARS's revolutionary research, which was publicly launched February 11, 2019. Tellus is Latin for earth, and its content is designed to reach our customers wherever they are—whether in the United States or across the globe, on desktop or mobile. Tellus is replacing its legacy AgResearch online magazine (includes archives from 1995-2018).

Tellus includes content covering a variety of topics from field to fork, ranging from human nutrition and food safety, to crop and animal production. In addition to informative stories about ARS research, Tellus includes new products like featured photos, infographics, photo essays and videos.

The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was a keystone tree species in the eastern U.S., once found in the forest overstory from Maine to Georgia. The loss of the "mighty giant" to chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica), a fungal disease accidentally imported from Asia in the early 1900s, reduced the once dominant chestnuts to remnant understory sprouts. After eight years of field testing, USDA Forest Service research forester Stacy Clark and her colleagues evaluated blight resistance and survival of the backcross-generation American chestnut seedlings, known as BC3F3. Their results were published in Forest Ecology and Management.

USDA NIFA research investment in Texas A&M AgriLife leads to breakthrough in fighting agricultural plant diseases. Researchers have made a discovery that will help combat fastidious pathogens, which cost U.S. agriculture alone billions of dollars annually.