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Author:: Ibraheem, Farag I. M.
Title:: INDUCTION AND METABOLIC ENGINEERING OF FLAVONOID DEFENSE COMPOUNDS IN SORGHUM AND MAIZE
Graduate Program:: Plant Biology
Keywords:: maize
phytoalexin
myb
flavonoids
transcription factor
sorghum
yellow seed1
pericarp color1
File:: Download Thesis_Farag_Ibraheem.pdf
Committee Members:: Surinder Chopra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Robert Huff, Committee Member
Yinong Yang, Committee Member
Teh Hui Kao, Committee Member
Wakar Uddin, Committee Member

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Author:: Liu, Wenhua
Title:: Characterization of pathogen effectors and host endogenous peptide elicitors in the rice-magnaporthe oryzae interaction
Graduate Program:: Plant Biology
Keywords:: Rice blast pathogen
Zinc finger effector
DNA-binding factor
HIRA
endogenous peptide elicitor
File:: Download Wenhua_Lius_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Yinong Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yinong Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Teh Hui Kao, Committee Member
Timothy W Mcnellis, Committee Member
Dawn S Luthe, Committee Member

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Author:: Yang, Zhenzhen
Title:: studying parasite evolution using comparative transcriptomic and phylogenomic analyses
Graduate Program:: Plant Biology
Keywords:: parasitic plants
haustoria
transcriptome
phylogenomic
gene duplication
co-option
horizontal gene transfer
File:: Download ZhenzhenYang_dissertation_final_14April2016.pdf
Committee Members:: Claude W De Pamphilis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claude W De Pamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles T Anderson, Committee Member
Yinong Yang, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Special Member

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Author:: Minkenberg, Bastian
Title:: MULTIPLEX TARGETED MUTATION AND ANALYSIS OF RICE MAP KINASE GENES WITH CRISPR/CAS9
Graduate Program:: Plant Biology
Keywords:: genome-editing
CRISPR/Cas9
rice
Oryza sativa
off-target prediction
mitogen-activated protein kinases
essential genes
multi-gene family
multiplex
File:: Download Bastian_Minkenberg_PhD_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Yinong Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yinong Yang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R. Huff, Committee Member
Claude dePamphilis, Committee Member
Gabriele Monshausen, Outside Member

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Author:: Hanlon, Meredith
Title:: New perspectives on conventional ideas about root system architecture and morphology
Graduate Program:: Plant Biology
Keywords:: auxin
phosphorus
lateral roots
roots
rice
root hairs
File:: Download MHanlon_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Kathleen Marie Brown, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Member
Yinong Yang, Committee Member
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Outside Member

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Author:: Wang, Wanyan
Title:: GENOMICS OF GENOTYPE-BY-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS IN SHRUB WILLOW (SALIX SPP.): INSECT HERBIVORY AND SOIL MICROBIOMES
Graduate Program:: Plant Biology
Keywords:: Bioenergy
Bioinformatics
Shrub Willow
Pest-resistance
Soil Microbiome
Genomics
Genotype-by-environment Interaction
File:: Download PhD_Dissertation_Wanyan_Wang.pdf
Committee Members:: John Edward Carlson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Edward Carlson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yinong Yang, Committee Member
Mary Ann Victoria Bruns, Committee Member
Surinder Chopra, Outside Member

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Author:: Li, Ningxiao
Title:: FUNGAL VOLATILE COMPOUNDS: SMALL MOLECULES WITH BIG ROLES IN PLANT-FUNGAL AND FUNGAL-FUNGAL INTERACTIONS
Graduate Program:: Plant Biology
Keywords:: Fungal volatile compounds
Chemical ecology
auxin
salt tolerance
plant defense
Biocontrol
File:: Download Final_Dissertation_Ningxiao_Li.pdf
Committee Members:: Seogchan Kang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Seogchan Kang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen M. Brown, Committee Member
Yinong Yang, Committee Member
James H. Tumlinson, Outside Member

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Author:: Hepler, Nathan Kent
Title:: INSIGHTS INTO THE EVOLUTION OF EXPANSIN FUNCTION USING IN VITRO, IN VIVO, AND PHYLOGENETIC METHODOLOGIES
Graduate Program:: Plant Biology
Keywords:: expansin
plant cell wall
gene family evolution
Spirodela polyrhiza
Zostera marina
Utricularia gibba
CRISPR/Cas9
root hair
in vitro evolution
File:: Download Hepler-dissertation-final.pdf
Committee Members:: Daniel J Cosgrove, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel J Cosgrove, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Axtell, Committee Member
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Member
Yinong Yang, Outside Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Zhang, Huiting
Title:: phylogenetic and functional studies on parasitism genes in Orobanchaceae and Convolulaceae
Graduate Program:: Plant Biology
Keywords:: Parasitic plants
cell wall
phylogenomics
transcriptome
molecular biology
host-induced-gene-silencing
File:: Download Huiting_Zhang_umi_agreement_papersub_submit.pdfDownload CertificateOfCompletion.pdfDownload Huiting_Zhang_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Claude Walker Depamphilis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Axtell, Committee Member
Charles T Anderson, Committee Member
Yinong Yang, Outside Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Reeger, Jenna
Title:: Rice roots for drought tolerance: Functional roles and genetic components of root anatomical and architectural traits in Oryza sativa
Graduate Program:: Plant Biology
Keywords:: root biology
rice
crop physiology
crop genetics
CRISPR-Cas9
drought tolerance
abiotic stress tolerance
xylem
root hydraulics
root phenotyping
File:: Download Thesis_Jenna_Reeger_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Kathleen Marie Brown, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Member
Yinong Yang, Committee Member
Charles T Anderson, Outside Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair

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