Browsing by Author "Murray, Seth C"
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Pekar, Jacob Jerome (2020-08-18)Aflatoxins contaminating our food supply in preharvest maize (aka corn, Zea mays L.) can cause serious illnesses such as: liver damage, intestinal bleeding, and even death; produced naturally by Aspergillus flavus Link:Fr, ...
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Lane, Holly Marie (2019-11-18)High-throughput phenotyping technologies can generate large volumes of data at low costs and are useful in a wide range of plant sciences, including plant breeding. Many phenotyping technologies increase the rate of currently ...
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Gawde, Archana Jairam (2013-04-30)One of the many ways to address health, obesity and hunger issues is genetic bio-fortification, a strategy of breeding or transforming staple crops with micronutrients and vitamins. This dissertation details efforts to ...
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Arnold, Robert (2021-04-07)Corn is a vital ingredient to the whiskey industry, most notably as the main ingredient in bourbon whiskey. However, little research exists that explores how genetic, environment, and gene-environment interaction effects ...
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Foster, Tyler L. (2019-07-11)Plant polyploidization can provide valuable, novel phenotypes. In Sorghum, induced polyploidization is possible and relatively inexpensive. However, efficiency remains low and a consensus “best” method has yet to be ...
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Barrero Farfan, Ivan D. (2013-06-25)The U.S. is the largest maize producer in the world with a production of 300 million tons in 2012. Approximately 86% of the maize production is focused on the Midwestern states. The rest of the production is focused in the ...
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Konda, Kotilingam (2018-10-15)Hybrid rice cultivation has expanded slowly in India and other countries in Southeast Asian because of the high cost of F1 seed production, poor grain quality, yield heterosis, and biotic and abiotic stresses. This study ...
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Pfeiffer, Brian K (2014-07-30)The black pericarp trait in grain sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is a novel trait with complex inheritance. In addition to its uniform, dark appearance, black sorghum grain contains high levels of favorable phenolic ...
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Chen, Yuanyuan (2016-11-02)Texas, as the major maize producer in the Southern United States, faces serious problems in maize production (i.e. drought stress and aflatoxin contamination) as well as in maize breeding. In the Texas A&M maize breeding ...
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Wahl, Nancy Julia (2017-12-11)Aflatoxins, produced by the fungus Aspergillus flavus, often contaminate preharvest maize (Zea mays L.) grain under heat and drought stresses, and pose serious health hazards to humans and livestock. Since 2003, a ...
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De Santiago, Luis Miguel (2020-07-16)Cotton, the leading natural textile fiber, develops as modified seed trichomes, produced in copious amounts by genetically elite cultivars of two domesticated New World Upland tetraploid (2n=4x=52) species, Upland cotton ...
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Beechinor, Kayla Ann (2022-09-20)Sorghum bicolor (L.) is a diploid, commonly grown as a hybrid grain crop in developed countries for animal feed, food, and bioenergy. Breeding methodology of this crop is being transformed due to unoccupied aerial systems ...
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Anderson II, Steven Langlie (2019-07-18)Unmanned aerial system (UAS) technologies are becoming common place within field-based agriculture programs allowing breeders to evaluate greater numbers of genotypes, reducing resource inputs and maintaining unbiased data ...
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Anderson II, Steven Langlie (2016-04-04)Cultivar progression requires years of development prior to performance trials; reducing development time requirements as well as introgression of favorable alleles is crucial to the rapid improvement of cultivars. ...
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Correa, Edgar (2019-11-11)In 2018, the production value of watermelon in the United States was $657 million out of 2.0 Mt harvested. That same year, Texas was second largest watermelon producing states with 0.40 Mt harvested. The first objective ...
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Influence of Genetic Background on Anthocyanin and Co-Pigment Profile and Stability of Colored Corn Collison, Amy Elizabeth (2014-08-05)Growing consumer demand for healthy and natural snacks provides an opportunity for utilization of pigmented corn in the tortilla chip market. This study determined the effect of phenotype^(1) on anthocyanin and co-pigment ...
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Jauregui, Rosa Noemi (2015-05-22)Food security is one of the most important challenges that society will continue to face in a world with a rapidly expanding population coupled with a growing affluence. Cottonseed is an underutilized source of protein and ...
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Smith, Schuyler (2015-05-12)The Texas maize breeding program at Texas A&M University has been unique among breeding programs for the incorporation of a wealth of germplasm from a wide range of origins into inbred lines. The Texas program, situated ...
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Bentley, Nolan Bradford (2020-05-28)Pecan (Carya illinoinensis) is a hickory tree grown for its edible seed (nut) as well as its ornamental and lumber qualities. Native to and primarily produced in Mexico and the United States, a majority of production is ...
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Bentley, Nolan Bradford (2020-05-28)Pecan (Carya illinoinensis) is a hickory tree grown for its edible seed (nut) as well as its ornamental and lumber qualities. Native to and primarily produced in Mexico and the United States, a majority of production is ...