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Author:

Delphia, Casey Marie

Title:

Factors influencing the dynamics of plant-insect interactions in two solanaceous plants

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

inbreeding
plant volatiles
plant-insect interactions
Nicotiana tabacum
Solanum carolinense
genetic variation

File:

Download Delphia_Doctoral_Dissertation_041208.pdf

Committee Members:

Consuelo M De Moraes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Felton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark C Mescher, Committee Member
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Member

Author:

Harris, Christina Marie

Title:

PARASITOID FORAGING IN A “VOLATILE” ENVIRONMENT: EFFECTS OF HOST AND HOST-PLANT SPECIES ON COTESIA MARGINIVENTRIS (HYMENOPTERA: BRACONIDAE) BEHAVIOR

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Spodoptera exigua
Cotesia marginiventris
plant volatiles
chemical ecology
Parasitoid
Trichoplusia ni
tritrophic interactions

File:

Download Christina_Harris_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

James Homer Tumlinson Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Homer Tumlinson Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Felton, Committee Member
John Frazier Tooker, Committee Member
Dawn S Luthe, Committee Member

Author:

Runyon, Justin Blake

Title:

Chemically-mediated interactions between the parasitic plant Cuscuta pentagona, its host plants, and insect herbivores

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Cuscuta
parasitic plant
chemical ecology
plant volatiles
host-parasite interactions
defense signalling

File:

Download Runyon_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Consuelo M De Moraes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark C Mescher, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Homer Tumlinson Iii, Committee Member
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Member

Author:

Mauck, Kerry Elizabeth

Title:

Chemical ecology of interactions among plants, non-persistently transmitted viruses, and insects

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

aphids
Cucumber mosaic virus
non-persistent transmission
vector behavior
plant volatiles
plant virus
insect nutrition

File:

Download Kerry_Mauck_-_Dissertation_Final_6-2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark C Mescher, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Consuelo M De Moraes, Committee Member
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Member
Frederick Eugene Gildow Jr., Committee Member

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

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