Browsing by Author "Yuan, Joshua"
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Dong, Qianni (2014-12-01)Black spot disease (BSD), caused by the fungus Diplocarpon rosae Wolf, is one of the most serious diseases of garden roses. Both complete (vertical) resistance conditioned by dominant Rdr genes and partial (horizontal) ...
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Xu, Bing (2021-08-05)Many microorganisms can accumulate carbon storage molecules when the carbon source is in excess and nitrogen is limited. Specifically, Rhodococcus opacus can accumulate triacylglycerols (TAGs) as the storage carbon, whereas ...
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Wang, Gang (2016-05-09)Variation and variability of gene expression are central concepts in biology. Variation refers to differences among individuals, whereas variability refers to the potential of a population to vary. The advent of next-generation ...
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Godara, Avinash (2021-04-06)Adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) is a powerful tool used to increase strain fitness in the presence of environmental stressors. Apart from growth improvement, ALE can also be used for improving productivity if production ...
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Hu, Cheng (2023-01-02)This research aims to address challenges in lignin renewable materials and advance the understanding of the lignin structure-properties relationship. Lignin, the second most abundant biopolymer on Earth, is a major byproduct ...
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Nagpal, Anushka (2021-07-08)In this study, thymine dimers were detected, for the first time, in both thymine and DNA aqueous solutions using Raman spectroscopy. Thymine dimers, formed by UV radiation of DNA, inactivate bacteria by inhibiting their ...
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Hamdi, Marouen (2016-12-15)Scratch behavior on polymeric films was investigated. The effect of film orientation and architecture on scratch resistance was determined. Film orientation was obtained by uniaxial stretching and its architecture was ...
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Cantu, Matthew Scott (2014-04-28)The objective of this thesis is to evaluate the effects from various treatments in the anaerobic digestion of cattle manure when mixed with microalgae. The analysis would focus on two primary subjects: the effects of ...
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Jamal, Yousuf 1973- (2012-11-27)Ion exchange resins, commonly used in water treatment, demonstrate promise for the production of biodiesel from biomass feedstocks. The goal of this presented PhD research is to investigate novel uses of ion exchange ...
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Olson, Michelle L (2014-11-19)Isoprenoids are naturally produced compounds in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. They are involved in essential cellular functions of the cell and are also further synthesized into pharmaceuticals, carotenoids, ...
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Zhi, Hui (2012-02-14)Heterosis, or hybrid vigor, refers to the superiority of F₁hybrid performance over the mean of its parents (mid-parent heterosis) theoretically, or the performance of better parents. It has been discovered in many species ...
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Liu, Yun Hua (2014-07-11)Cotton (Gossypium spp.) is a leading textile crop in the world, generating an annual economic benefit of over hundred billion USD. However, few genes controlling fiber quality and yield traits have been cloned and characterized ...
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Ortiz, Carlos S (2013-04-10)Fusarium verticillioides (Teleomorph Giberella moniliformis) is an ascomycete fungus responsible for ear and stalk rots of maize. Most importantly, it produces a group of mycotoxins called fumonisins upon colonization of ...
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Aci, Murat (2018-08-07)Soybean is one of the key crops necessary to meet the food requirement of the increasing global population. However, in order to meet this need, the quality and quantity of soybean yield must be greatly enhanced. Soybean ...
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Ort, Donald; Merchant, Sabeeha; Alric, Jean; Barkan, Alice; Blankenship, Robert; Bock, Ralph; Croce, Roberta; Hanson, Maureen; Hibberd, Julian; Long, Stephen; Moore, Thomas; Moroney, James; Niyogi, Krishna; Parry, Martin; Peralta-Yahya, Pamela; Prince, Roger; Redding, Kevin; Spalding, Martin; Klaas J. van Wijk; Vermaas, Wim; Susanne von Caemmerer; Weber, Andreas; Yeates, Todd; Yuan, Joshua; Xin Guang Zhu (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015)
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Li, Runze; Chen, Jie; Cesario, Thomas; Wang, Xin; Yuan, Joshua; Rentzepis, Peter (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016)
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Caraway, Emma Britain (2016-08-23)Microbial extremophiles have the potential for a wide variety of biotechnological and industrial applications and yet extremophiles are underrepresented in whole genome sequencing efforts to date. The generation of whole ...
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Da, Yabin (2022-01-14)Climate change and surface ozone have been proven to impose significant threats on crop productions and the interactions between these two factors further make the issue more complicated. Although the quantification of ...