Northeastern State University

About: Northeastern State University is a education organization based out in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Wireless sensor network & Computer science. The organization has 477 authors who have published 831 publications receiving 21482 citations. The organization is also known as: NSU.

Development of Transgenic Sugarcane for Insect Resistance

Abstract: Sugarcane is an economically important crop across the world. Demand for sugar and sugarcane by-products increases in both domestic and industrial sectors daily. In order to meet this demand, sustainable sugarcane yield improvement is inevitable. Yield loss in sugarcane due to insect pests ranges from 10 to 30%. Despite application of insecticides, pesticides, other chemicals, and different integrated pest management (IPM) techniques, scope for improvement remains. With genetic engineering, considerable success has been achieved in sugarcane trait improvement. To this end, this chapter focuses on development of transgenic sugarcane for disease and pest resistance.

Financial Crises, Income Levels and Access to Finance

Abstract: In this study, we examine the impact of the 2008 Global Crisis on “access to finance” in high-income OECD, high-income non-OECD, middle-income, and low-income countries. We use three measures of access to finance. These are “Number of bank branches per 100,000 adults”, “Value traded of top 10 traded companies to total value traded (%)”, and “Market capitalization outside of top 10 largest companies to total market capitalization (%)”. During the run-up to the crisis and immediately after the crisis, we do not find any significant change in any of the three “access to finance” measures. We find that, during the crisis, only middle-income countries were affected significantly. These countries were affected in only one of the measures which is “Value traded of top 10 traded companies to total value traded (%)”. This measure went up and this change is marginally significant. We conclude that the global crisis only affected “access to finance” in middle-income countries.