To evaluate the use of canola for disposing of selenium-laden drainage water from the San Joaquin Valley's West Side, and to evaluate the potential of products from harvested canola -- selenium-enriched forage and seed oil -- for use as a biofuel.
Project Number: 03-02-002
Funding Round: 4 (2002-2003)
Research Focus Area: Production and Cultural Practices
ARI Member Campus: California State University, Fresno
Director: Banuelos, Gary
Track the accumulation of elements in an apricot orchard treated with wastewater treatment plant sludge (also called biosolids). Agricultural use of biosolids in fertilizer applications offers environmental and economical benefits through reuse of nutrients and organic matter.
Project Number: 00-01-002
Funding Round: 1 (1999-2000)
Research Focus Area: Production and Cultural Practices
ARI Member Campus: California State University, Fresno
Director: Banuelos, Gary
To test phytoremediation, using selected plants in association with microbial activity to extract, accumulate, and volatilize selenium in soil and thus reduce the amount of soluble Se entering drainage water and remaining in drainage sediment.
Project Number: 00-02-004
Funding Round: 1 (1999-2000)
Research Focus Area: Water and Irrigation Technology
ARI Member Campus: California State University, Fresno
Director: Banuelos, Gary
To quantify the transformation, distribution, movement and uptake of organic sources of nutrients applied as compost amendments to broccoli, and to examine the impact of water management on nutrient availability, leaching, water use efficiency and yield.
Project Number: 03-02-001
Funding Round: 4 (2002-2003)
Research Focus Area: Production and Cultural Practices
ARI Member Campus: California State University, Fresno
Director: Banuelos, Gary
The proposed study uses canola and sunflower in crop rotation as recipients for disposing of Se-laden drainage water, and evaluates the impacts and the potential of producing Se-enriched meal for supplying dairy cows their essential requirement of Se and other nutrients.
Project Number: 07-02-001
Funding Round: 8 (2006-2007)
Research Focus Area: Natural Resources
ARI Member Campus: California State University, Fresno
Director: Banuelos, Gary
In this proposed study, a consortium comprised of the USDA-ARS, Fresno State,Red Rock Ranch, and Panoche Drainage District will seek to develop new resources from an otherwise known contaminant: selenium (Se). Seed harvested from canola plants will be processed for bio-oil and blended with diesel fuel. Investigators will then evaluate performance of biofuels.
Project Number: 06-02-002
Funding Round: 7 (2005-2006)
Research Focus Area: Water and Irrigation Technology
ARI Member Campus: California State University, Fresno
Director: Banuelos, Gary
1. Determine tolerance and yield differences, e.g. fruit cladodes between different varieties of spine and spineless Opuntia grown under drainage water-irrigation and rain-fed only conditions at Red Rock Ranch (RRR), and in saline drainage sediment at USDA-ARS Research Facility.
2. Determine rates of biological volatilization of Se and Se and the accumulation in of Se and other nutrients in cladodes and fruit from both spine and spineless Opuntia grown at both RRR and at ARS Research Facilities.
3. Develop extrusion and other processes for utilization of fruit pulp and peels as ingredients for producing unique value-added food products from Opuntia.
Project Number: 09-02-004
Funding Round: 10 (2008-2009)
Research Focus Area: Food Safety, Nutrition, Processing and New Product Development
ARI Member Campus: California State University, Fresno
Director: Banuelos, Gary
Project Number: 12-02-002
Funding Round: 13 (2011-2012)
Research Focus Area: Food Safety, Nutrition, Processing and New Product Development
ARI Member Campus: California State University, Fresno
Director: Banuelos, Gary
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