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This dataset measurements for the following soil components from soil samples collected in northern Illinois between 2023 and 2024. Two file formats containing the same data are offered (Excel spreadsheet and CSV): 1. Soil clay minerals (illite, kaolinite, chlorite, and smectite) 2. pH 3. Other soil minerals: aluminum (Al), arsenic (As), barium (Ba), boron aluminide (Bal), calcium (Ca), cadmium (Cd), chloride (Cl), cobalt (Co), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), manganese (Mn), mercury (Hg), molybdenum (Mo), nobium (Nb), nickel (Ni), potassium (K), phosphorous (P), lead (Pb), palladium (Pd), rubidium (Rb), silver (Ag), sulfur (S), thorium (Th), titanium (Ti), uranium (U), vanadium (V), yttrium (Y), zinc (Zn), and zirconium (Zr) Samples were collected on the side of public roads within the right of way. X-ray diffraction was used to quantify soil clay components, while other soil minerals were measured using a Niton XL5 Plus Analyzer. pH was measured using a Yinmik YK-S01 Digital Soil pH Tester. Samples were collected as part of a project funded by the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) to examine the role of soil characteristics on chronic wasting disease (CWD) persistence in northern Illinois, USA.

Plant oils are increasingly in demand as renewable feedstocks for biodiesel and biochemicals. Currently, oilseeds are the primary source of plant oils. Although the vegetative tissues of plants express lipid metabolism pathways, they do not hyper-accumulate lipids. Elevated synthesis, storage, and accumulation of lipids in vegetative tissues have been achieved by metabolic engineering of sugarcane to produce “oilcane.” This study evaluates the potential of oilcane as a renewable feedstock for the co-production of lipids and fermentable sugars. Oilcane was grown under favorable climatic and field conditions in Florida (FLOC) as well as during an abbreviated growing season, outside its typical growing region, in Illinois (ILOC). The potential lipid yield of 0.35 tons/ha was projected from the hyperaccumulation of fatty acids in the stored vegetative biomass of FLOC, which is approaching the lipid yield of soybean (0.44 tons/ha). Processing of the vegetative tissues of oilcane recovered 0.20 tons/ha, which represents the recovery of 55% of the total lipids from FLOC. Chemical-free hydrothermal bioprocessing of ILOC and FLOC bagasse and leaves at 180 °C for 10 min prevented the degeneration of in situ plant lipids. This allowed the recovery of lipids at the end of the bioprocess with a major fraction of lipids remaining in the biomass residues after pretreatment and saccharification. Improvements through refined biomass processing, crop management, and metabolic engineering are expected to boost lipid yields and make oilcane a prime feedstock for the production of biodiesel.

This dataset contains data used in publication "Institutional Data Repository Development, a Moving Target" submitted to Code4Lib Journal. It is a tabular data file describing attributes of data files in datasets published in Illinois Data Bank 2016-04-01 to 2021-04-01.

Twenty-two genotypes of C4 species grown under ambient and elevated O3 concentration were studied at the SoyFACE (40°02’N, 88°14’W) in 2019. This dataset contains leaf morphology, photosynthesis and nutrient contents measured at three time points. The results of CO2 response curves are also included.

Exhaustive species inventory of suburban wetland complex in northeast Ohio (Cuyahoga County).

Dataset for F2F events of honeybees. F2F events are defined as face-to-face encounters of two honeybees that are close in distance and facing each other but not connected by the proboscis, thus not engaging in trophallaxis. The first and the second columns show the unique id's of honeybees participating in F2F events. The third column shows the time at which the F2F event started while the fourth column shows the time at which it ended. Each time is in the Unix epoch timestamp in milliseconds.

Please cite as: Menglin Liu and Benjamin M. Gramig. "Survey of Cover Crop, Conservation Tillage and Nutrient Management Practice Usage in Illinois and 2020 Fall Covers for Spring Savings Crop Insurance Discount Program Participation." Report to the Illinois Department of Agriculture and Fall Covers for Spring Savings working group. Center for the Economics of Sustainability and Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2021. https://doi.org/10.13012/B2IDB-5222984_V1

Storage lipids (mostly triacylglycerols, TAGs) serve as an important energy and carbon reserve in plants, and hyperaccumulation of TAG in vegetative tissues can have negative effects on plant growth. Purple acid phosphatase2 (PAP2) was previously shown to affect carbon metabolism and boost plant growth. However, the effects of PAP2 on lipid metabolism remain unknown. Here, we demonstrated that PAP2 can stimulate a futile cycle of fatty acid (FA) synthesis and degradation, and mitigate negative growth effects associated with high accumulation of TAG in vegetative tissues. Constitutive expression of PAP2 in Arabidopsis thaliana enhanced both lipid synthesis and degradation in leaves and led to a substantial increase in seed oil yield. Suppressing lipid degradation in a PAP2-overexpressing line by disrupting sugar-dependent1 (SDP1), a predominant TAG lipase, significantly elevated vegetative TAG content and improved plant growth. Diverting FAs from membrane lipids to TAGs in PAP2-overexpressing plants by constitutively expressing phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferase1 (PDAT1) greatly increased TAG content in vegetative tissues without compromising biomass yield. These results highlight the potential of combining PAP2 with TAG-promoting factors to enhance carbon assimilation, FA synthesis and allocation to TAGs for optimized plant growth and storage lipid accumulation in vegetative tissues.

Oleaginous yeasts have received significant attention due to their substantial lipid storage capability. The accumulated lipids can be utilized directly or processed into various bioproducts and biofuels. Lipomyces starkeyi is an oleaginous yeast capable of using multiple plant-based sugars, such as glucose, xylose, and cellobiose. It is, however, a relatively unexplored yeast due to limited knowledge about its physiology. In this study, we have evaluated the growth of L. starkeyi on different sugars and performed transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses to understand the underlying mechanisms of sugar metabolism. Principal component analysis showed clear differences resulting from growth on different sugars. We have further reported various metabolic pathways activated during growth on these sugars. We also observed non-specific regulation in L. starkeyi and have updated the gene annotations for the NRRL Y-11557 strain. This analysis provides a foundation for understanding the metabolism of these plant-based sugars and potentially valuable information to guide the metabolic engineering of L. starkeyi to produce bioproducts and biofuels.

This is part of the Cline Center’s ongoing Social, Political and Economic Event Database Project (SPEED) project. Each observation represents an event involving civil unrest, repression, or political violence in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Philippines (1979-2009). These data were produced in an effort to describe the relationship between exploitation of natural resources and civil conflict, and to identify policy interventions that might address resource-related grievances and mitigate civil strife. This work is the result of a collaboration between the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Construction Engineer Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL), the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) and the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research (CCASR). The project team selected case studies focused on nations with a long history of civil conflict, as well as lucrative natural resources. The Cline Center extracted these events from country-specific articles published in English by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Summary of World Broadcasts (SWB) from 1979-2008 and the CIA’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) 1999-2004. Articles were selected if they mentioned a country of interest, and were tagged as relevant by a Cline Center-built machine learning-based classification algorithm. Trained analysts extracted nearly 10,000 events from nearly 5,000 documents. The codebook—available in PDF form below—describes the data and production process in greater detail.

This archive contains the datasets used in the paper "Recursive MAGUS: scalable and accurate multiple sequence alignment". - 16S.3, 16S.T, 16S.B.ALL - HomFam - RNASim These can also be found at https://sites.google.com/eng.ucsd.edu/datasets/alignment/pastaupp

This dataset provides a 50-state (and DC) survey of state-level enterprise zone laws, including summaries and analyses of zone eligibility criteria, eligible investments, incentives to invest in human capital and affordable housing, and taxpayer eligibility.

Respiration by soil bacteria and fungi is one of the largest fluxes of carbon (C) from the land surface. Although this flux is a direct product of microbial metabolism, controls over metabolism and their responses to global change are a major uncertainty in the global C cycle. Here, we explore an in silico approach to predict bacterial C-use efficiency (CUE) for over 200 species using genome-specific constraint-based metabolic modeling. We find that potential CUE averages 0.62 ± 0.17 with a range of 0.22 to 0.98 across taxa and phylogenetic structuring at the subphylum levels. Potential CUE is negatively correlated with genome size, while taxa with larger genomes are able to access a wider variety of C substrates. Incorporating the range of CUE values reported here into a next-generation model of soil biogeochemistry suggests that these differences in physiology across microbial taxa can feed back on soil-C cycling.

Metabolite identifications and profiles of liver samples from 22 day old male and female pigs from gilt that exposed to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (P) or not (C) that were weaned at 21 days of age (W) or not (N). Profiles were obtained by University of Illinois Carver Metabolomics Center. Spectrum for each sample was acquired using a gas chromatography mass spectrometry system consisting of an Agilent 7890 gas chromatograph, an Agilent 5975 MSD, and an HP 7683B auto sampler.

These data records weekly aphid and monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) neonate counts on individual milkweed plants in multiple raised garden beds in Chicago during the summers of 2023 and 2024. Relationships between aphid infestation and monarch neonates can be investigated along with weekly trends of monarch oviposition and aphid abundances. All gardens included in this study were on the University of Illinois Chicago campus, and within 100 meters of proximity. Data are provided on three milkweed species in 2023, and one milkweed species in 2024.

All code in Matlab .m scripts or functions (version R2019b) Affiliated with article “Temperate and chronic virus competition leads to low lysogen frequency” published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology (2021) Codes simulate and plot the solutions of an Ordinary Differential Equations model and generate bifurcation diagrams.

This dataset contains the files used to perform the work savings and recall evaluation in the study titled "Data from Testing a filtering strategy for systematic reviews: Evaluating work savings and recall."

Healthy mares were kept at pasture for 3 weeks, stabled for 5 weeks, returned to pasture and an final sample collected 6 weeks later. Samples were collected weekly: gastric fluid by double-tube nasogastric intubation and aspiration, feces by rectal palpation. Microbial DNA was isolated using the QIAamp PowerFecal Pro DNA kit. Full length 16S, ITS and partial 23S rRNA gene libraries were created using the Shoreline Complete ID kit.

This is the core data for Influence of ecological characteristics and phylogeny on native plant species’ commercial availability, a manuscript pending publication in Ecological Applications. The data regard ecological characteristics, phenology, and phylogeny of plant species native to the Midwestern United States and how those factors relate to commercial availability.

Raw data and its analysis collected from a trial designed to test the impact of providing a Bacillus-based direct-fed microbial (DFM) on the syndrome resulting from orally infecting pigs with either Salmonella enterica serotype Choleraesuis (S. Choleraesuis) alone, or in combination with an intranasal challenge, three days later, with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV).

We developed a sequential single-cell matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) workflow that enables endogenous lipid profiling in the first step, followed by cell-type classification of the same cells via immunocytochemistry in the second step. This stepwise approach integrates high-throughput single-cell analysis enabled by microMS with multiplex immunolabeling using photocleavable mass tags (PCMTs), which are antibodies conjugated to peptide mass reporters that are photoreleased and then detected by MALDI-MS. This platform combines the strengths of untargeted chemical profiling with targeted marker-based cell identification, allowing characterization of the cells’ endogenous metabolic activity, followed by cell classification using well-established immunomarkers. Here, we provide the raw data, mzML-converted files, and LC-MS/MS data from rodent hippocampal cells as described in the manuscript.

The MultiDLO data release supports the paper, "MultiDLO: Simultaneous Shape Tracking of Multiple Deformable Linear Objects with Global-Local Topology Preservation," presented in the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Workshop on Representing and Manipulating Deformable Objects in May 2023. The data release includes the raw image and depth data for simultaneously tracking multiple Deformable Linear Objects (DLOs). The released data are Robot Operating System (ROS1) bag files containing raw color images and point clouds. The data were collected using a static Intel Realsense d-435 RGB-D camera while DLOs in the field of view of the camera were manipulated. The data can be used to benchmark the performance of future DLO tracking or prediction algorithms in two manipulation scenarios relevant to DLOs and to verify existing DLO tracking algorithms. Please see the accompanying extended abstract, the code repository on GitHub, and the conference presentation video referenced in the `multidlo_data_release.pdf` document for more information.

Data from an a field experiment at El Velo, Chiriqui, Republic of Panama. Data contain information about functional traits of seedlings growing in different treatments including type of forest, nitrogen addition and organic matter.

The data file contains a list of articles and their RCT Tagger prediction scores, which were used in a project associated with the manuscript "Evaluation of publication type tagging as a strategy to screen randomized controlled trial articles in preparing systematic reviews".