Browsing by Author "Pepper, Alan E."
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Analysis of Genetic Diversity and Relationships in the China Rose Group
Soules, Valerie Ann (2011-02-22)The wild origin, early breeding history, and diversity of the China Rose group, including R. chinensis and its varieties, cultivars, and hybrids, are largely unknown. The aims of this study were to investigate the genetic ... -
Comparative Genomics of Gossypium spp. through GBS and Candidate Genes – Delving into the Controlling Factors behind Photoperiodic Flowering
Young, Carla Jo Logan (2013-08-09)Cotton has been a world-wide economic staple in textiles and oil production. There has been a concerted effort for cotton improvement to increase yield and quality to compete with non-natural man-made fibers. Unfortunately, ... -
Cotton PHYA1 RNAi improves fiber quality, root elongation, flowering, maturity and yield potential in Gossypium hirsutum L
Abdurakhmonov, Ibrokhim Y.; Buriev, Zabardast T.; Abdukarimov, Abdusattor; Saha, Sukumar; Jenkins, Johnie N.; Pepper, Alan E. (United States. Patent and Trademark OfficeTexas A&M University. Libraries, 2017-05-30)Improvement of fiber quality of Upland cultivars (Gossypium hirsutum), while maintaining early maturity and productivity, is a fundamental problem in conventional cotton breeding. Phytochromes play a fundamental role in ... -
Enlightening Medicago truncatula transformation and shading GFP fluorescence
Zhou, Xin (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Medicago truncatula (M. truncatula) has been proposed as a model legume for molecular and genetic studies of legumes. While many genetic resources have been developed for this model legume, genetic transformation of the ... -
Functional genomics analysis of the arabidopsis ABI5 bZIP transcription factor
Hur, Jung-Im (2009-05-15)During embryogenesis, the architecture of the plant and the food reserves for seed germination are established. Abscisic acid (ABA) regulates seed development and dormancy. It controls genes involved in stress responses. ... -
An Investigation of Two Modes of Plant Protection by the Biocontrol Agent Trichoderma virens
Crutcher, Frankie (2012-02-14)The biocontrol fungus Trichoderma virens is an avirulent symbiont with the ability to control plant disease by the production of antibiotic compounds, induction of plant resistance to pathogens, and mycoparasitism of other ... -
Isolation and characterization of resistance gene analogs (RGAs) in sorghum
Cho, Jae-Min (Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)The largest group of plant disease resistance (R) genes that share similar structures contains a predicted nucleotide-binding site (NBS) domain. NBS domains of this class of R genes show highly conserved amino acid motifs, ... -
Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Soils of Ultramafic Origin from the Great Dyke, Zimbabwe and Gillespie County, Texas
Bangira, Courage (2012-02-14)Although soils developed from ultramafic parent materials have significance to agriculture, ecology and health, their bio-geochemistry is poorly understood. The mineralogical and bio-geochemistry of soils formed from the ... -
Molecular and Genetic Analysis of Adaptive Evolution in the Rare Serpentine Endemic, Caulanthus amplexicaulis var. barbarae (J. Howell) Munz
Burrell, Anna Mildred (2011-10-21)In the interest of understanding the genetic basis of adaption to environment, we developed F2 lines from an F1 interspecific cross between the rare serpentine endemic, Caulanthus amplexicaulis var. barbarae and the ... -
Perception of genetic risk in sexual and reproductive decision-making (PGRID) by college students
Honoré, Heather Helaine (2009-05-15)One psychosocial variable, human mate selection, has been studied extensively within the field of evolutionary psychology. A question of interest is how sexual/reproductive decision-making (i.e., dating, marrying, and ... -
Phytochrome RNAi enhances major fibre quality and agronomic traits of the cotton Gossypium hirsutum L
Abdurakhmonov, Ibrokhim Y.; Buriev, Zabardast T.; Saha, Sukumar; Jenkins, Johnie N.; Abdukarimov, Abdusattor; Pepper, Alan E. (Nature Communications, 2014) -
Sorghum Ma5 and Ma6 maturity genes
Brady, Jeffrey Alan (2009-05-15)The Ma5 and Ma6 maturity loci in sorghum contain genes interacting epistatically to block flowering until an appropriate daylength is met. Because sorghum is a crop of tropical origin, its critical daylength is close to ... -
A tale of two cacti: studies in Astrophytum asterias and Lophophora williamsii
Terry, Martin Kilman (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Astrophytum asterias (star cactus) and Lophophora williamsii (peyote) are sympatric species in the Tamaulipecan thornscrub of South Texas and adjacent Mexico. Peyote has been excavated from two archaeological sites: Shumla ... -
Telomere Protection and Maintenance in Arabidopsis thaliana
Song, Xiangyu (2011-08-08)Telomeres are the physical ends of linear chromosomes in eukaryotes. Telomeres not only protect chromosome ends from being recognized as double-strand breaks but also maintain the chromosome terminal sequences. These ... -
Transcriptional regulation in cowpea bruchid guts during adaptation to a plant defense protease inhibitor and screening of mutants that are altered in jasmonate-regulated signal transduction pathways using Arabidopsis thaliana
Moon, Jaewoong (2009-05-15)To study the interaction between plants and insects I performed the experiments to find out the counter-defense mechanism of insects when insects were attacked by the defense protein of plants. Jasmonate (JA) is one of the ... -
Transcriptional regulation of seed-specific gene expression - from PvALF/ ABI3 to phaseolin
Ng, Wang Kit (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)The phaseolin (phas) promoter drives the copious production of transcripts encoding the protein phaseolin during seed embryogenesis but is silent in vegetative tissues when a nucleosome is positioned over its three phased ...