Browsing by Author "Wilkinson, Heather H."
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Chung, Da Woon (2012-07-16)Conidiation is a common and critical asexual reproductive mode in fungi. The ascomycetes, the largest group in the kingdom Fungi undergo conidiation. The wide array of morphological difference in a conidiophore and conidial ...
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Hammett, Amy Jo Macbey (2012-10-19)Naturally occurring microbial communities from high-salt and/or high-temperature environments were collected from sites across the United States and Puerto Rico and screened for their efficacy in the MixAlco biofuel ...
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Henry, Merribeth Annette (2009-06-02)Agriculture is a crucial component of the economy of Texas with millions of pounds of peanuts, cotton, wheat, and corn produced annually. However, Texas agricultural crops are not exempt from pathogens, especially Sclerotinia ...
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Cartmill, Andrew David (2012-07-16)Projected climate change may alter soil carbon dioxide (CO2) efflux from terrestrial ecosystems; yet disentangling effect of plant species from climate drivers remains a key challenge. We explored the effects of the dominant ...
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Greenwald, Charles Joaquin (2011-10-21)The Pezizomycotina, commonly known as the filamentous fungi, are a diverse group of organisms that have a major impact on human life. The filamentous fungi diverged from a common ancestor approximately 200 – 700 million ...
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Kutil, Brandi Lynn (2009-05-15)LOL is a novel secondary metabolite gene cluster associated with the production of loline alkaloids (saturated 1-aminopyrrolizidine alkaloids with an oxygen bridge) exclusively in closely related grass-endophyte species ...
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Gray, Myron Crowley (2009-05-15)The fungus Ceratocystis fagacearum (Bretz) Hunt causes the vascular disease of oak wilt and has been decimating live oaks (Quercus virginiana Mill. and Quercus fusiformis Small.) and red oaks (Quercus texana Small and ...
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Large scale total synthesis of apoptolidinone and progress towards the total synthesis of ammocidin Liu, Qingsong (2009-05-15)Apoptolidin 1.1 was isolated in 1997 by Hayakawa and co-workers from a soil bacterium Nocardiopsis sp. during screening for specific apoptosis inducers. The primary biological test revealed that this polyketide macrolide ...
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Li, Dan (Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)MAP kinases and transcription factors homologous to Saccharomyces cerevisiae Fus3p/Kss1p and Ste12p have been identified in several plant pathogenic fungi and found to be required for pathogenicity and sexual reproduction. ...
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Hollister, Emily B.; Forrest, Andrea K.; Wilkinson, Heather H.; Ebbole, Daniel J.; Tringe, Susannah G.; Malfatti, Stephanie A.; Holtzapple, Mark T.; Gentry, Terry J.; Gilbert, Jack Anthony (PloS One, 2012)