Browsing by Subject "plant"
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(2019-04-03)Water is a major limiting resource in agriculture worldwide, restricting crop yields in approximately 70 percent of arable farmlands. My goal was to alleviate drought stress in grasses using plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria ...
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(2018-02-13)Amino acids are the major form of nitrogen (N) transported within the plant body, and their transport between different plant tissues through the xylem and the phloem is indispensable for optimal growth. Such transport ...
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(2017-04-24)Mangroves are salt-tolerant trees that coexist with marsh grasses and forbs at subtropical latitudes. Occasional freeze events keep mangroves from completely overgrowing marsh plants. There have not been severe freeze ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Telomeres are important protein-DNA structures at the ends of linear eukaryotic chromosomes that are necessary for genome integrity. Telomeres are maintained by intermittent action of telomerase. I explored the kinetics ...