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Author:: Pedersen, Christian
Title:: THE RESPONSE OF ARCTIC VEGETATION TO CLIMATE WARMING IN AN UNGULATE GRAZING SYSTEM
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: climate change
herbivory
phenology
ungulates
arctic
vegetation
grazing
reproduction
flowering
File:: Download Chr_Pedersen_PhD_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Duane R Diefenbach, Committee Member
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Christopher Uhl, Committee Member

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Author:: Marchinchin, Joseph Robert
Title:: Characterization of caffeoyl coenzyme A O-methyltransferase genes in maize AND The role of maysin in maize as a defense response to herbivory
Graduate Program:: Agronomy
Keywords:: herbivory
maysin
predicted protein structure
allelic differences
S:G ratio
lignin modification
CCoAOMT
antibiosis
bioassays
corn earworm
fall armyworm
maize
File:: Download Joseph_R_Marchinchin_-_Masters_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Dawn S Luthe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dawn S Luthe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Zhu, Lixue
Title:: Study of Defense Genes Expression Induced by Leaf Herbivory in Roots of Insect-resistant Maize
Graduate Program:: Agronomy
Keywords:: expression
defense gene
herbivory
maize
File:: Download master_thesis_by_Lixue_Zhu.pdf
Committee Members:: Dawn S Luthe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dawn S Luthe, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Ramirez Carvalho, Monica
Title:: TROPICAL CANOPY INSECTS LINK LEAF DAMAGE IN FOSSIL AND LIVING FORESTS
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: herbivory
fossil
canopy crane
paleoherbivory
panama
File:: Download Carvalho-MS_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter Daniel Wilf, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Daniel Wilf, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Bauerle, Taryn Lynette
Title:: Root dynamics in response to abiotic and biotic stressors in Vitis
Graduate Program:: Horticulture
Keywords:: minirhizotrons
root survivorship
root production
hydraulic redistribution
herbivory
File:: Download bauerle_thesis_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: David Eissenstat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Member
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Member
John Charles Schultz, Committee Member

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Author:: Donovan, Michael Philip
Title:: Novel insect leaf-mining at Mexican Hat, Montana (early Paleocene) and the demise of Cretaceous leaf miners
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: plant-insect interactions
Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction
herbivory
paleoecology
Fort Union Formation
Powder River Basin
File:: Download Donovan_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter Daniel Wilf, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Adams, Thomas
Title:: The controls and constraints of fine-root lifespan
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: root lifespan
minirhizotron
phenolics
herbivory
13C
File:: Download Tom_Adams_-_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: David Eissenstat, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Eissenstat, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Member
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Member
Consuelo M De Moraes, Committee Member

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Author:: Bentley, Thomas Granville
Title:: Plant volatiles from an ecological perspective: Interactions with herbivores and pollinators in Solanum and Nicotiana
Graduate Program:: Ecology
Keywords:: Ecology
chemical ecology
plant volatiles
pollinator
herbivory
plant defenses
File:: Download TGBentleyDissertation2014.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark C Mescher, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Consuelo M De Moraes, Committee Member
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Member
David A Mortensen, Committee Member

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Author:: Pulido Barrios, Hannier
Title:: EFFECTS OF BENEFICIAL MICROBES ON PLANT-VIRUS-VECTOR INTERACTIONS INVOLVING SOYBEAN
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: Beneficial rhizobacteria
multi-trophic interactions
parasitoid wasps
metabolomics
transcriptomics
VOCs
plant volatiles
herbivory
File:: Download Hannier_Pulido_-_Dissertation_Final_Nov_12_2016.pdfDownload Supplementals__Chapter_2.zipDownload Supplementals__Chapter_3.zip
Committee Members:: Mark Mescher, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Stephenson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Consuelo de Moraes, Committee Member
John Frazier Tooker, Committee Member
Cristina Rosa, Outside Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member

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Author:: Donovan, Michael Philip
Title:: RECOVERY OF PLANT-INSECT ASSOCIATIONS IN PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA AFTER THE END-CRETACEOUS EXTINCTION
Graduate Program:: Geosciences
Keywords:: plant-insect associations
herbivory
Gondwana
paleobotany
File:: Download Donovan_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter Wilf, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Wilf, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Timothy Bralower, Committee Member
David Peter Hughes, Outside Member
Conrad Labandeira, Special Member

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