March 5 to March 11: Breakfast at Sunrise, Tall Fescue and Root Cells

Here's a quick look at what went on in research at the Noble Research Institute last week.

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  1 Tuesday, March 7

Proud to stand by Texoma MaxQ II #tallfescue developed at the #noblefoundation on display in Missouri. Alliance for Grassland Renewal workshop, Mt Vernon, Missouri. #everynoblestory #endophyteinfected

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  2 Tuesday, March 7

busy few days ahead for @noblefoundation farm staff, myself included: performing breeding soundness exams on our bull battery, preparing to ship Jr. Beef steers to Amarillo, receiving purchased cattle, still calving on multiple properties, and the list goes on... #neveradullmoment #whatoffseason #allfortheloveofbeefcattle #everynoblestory #agriculture #sunrise #Oklahoma #iphoneonly #iphoneography

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  3 Wednesday, March 8

Forage quality is a major component of any forage breeding program. Forage quality is used to predict animal performance from the forage being grazed by the livestock to meet nutritional requirements. NIR instruments use near infrared light reflectance to predict forage quality. #everynoblestory #NIRS #foragequalityanalysis #scicomm #plantbreeding #iphoneonly #ardmoreok #noblefoundation #oklahoma #grazing #livestock #research #cultivar #plants

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  4 Wednesday, March 8

Breakfast at #sunrise. A first calf heifer patiently waits to graze as her calf enjoys his first meal of the day. Back in October we No tilled a mix of oats and triticale. We were able to provide #forage to the cattle and organic matter to the #soil while reducing hay consumption. #forage365 #everynoblestory #beef #cattle #greengrass #oklahoma

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  5Friday, March 10

Happy Friday. We end our work week with another glimpse into the fascinating dynamics of plant cells. This #timelapse #confocal #microscope movie shows a field of living root #cells from an #arabidopsis #seedling. Cells have been engineered to express a #yellow #fluorescent #protein (#yfp) that binds to lipids (i.e. Fats). As such, parts of the cell that are enriched in these specific lipids are marked yellow including membranes surrounding the central vacuole and organelles called endosomes. Within these microscopic factories is the machinery that sorts, packages and eventually transports material within the cell. #plantscience #plantbiology #science #cellbiology #everynoblestory #tgifriday #rootresearch @noblefoundation #plantcell #celldynamics

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