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Author:

Kim, Jinwon

Title:

Oviposition-mediated interactions of tomato fruitworm moth Helicoverpa zea (lepidoptera: Noctuidae) with its host plant tomato Solanum lycopersicum and the egg parasitoid Trichogramma pretiosum (hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae)

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Plant-insect interactions
antiherbivore plant defenses
oviposition
defense priming
egg defense against egg parasitoids

File:

Download Jinwon_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Helliwell, Emily Elizabeth

Title:

The Role Of Ethylene Biosynthesis And Signaling In Resistance To Fungal Diseases In Rice

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

Oryza sativa
rice
ethylene
rice blast
ethylene biosynthesis
ethylene signaling

File:

Download Helliwell_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yinong Yang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Member
Dawn S Luthe, Committee Member
Timothy W Mcnellis, Committee Member
Seogchan Kang, Committee Member

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

Author:

Chung, Seung Ho

Title:

Manipulation of induced defenses in tomato by Colorado potato beetle: the effects of oral secretions and herbivore-associated microbes

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

Plant-microbe-herbivore interactions
Oral secretions
Induced defenses
Tomato
Crosstalk
Colorado potato beetles

File:

Download Dissertation_Seung_Ho_Chung_Final_02.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Felton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Homer Tumlinson Iii, Committee Member
Kelli Hoover, Committee Member
Dawn S Luthe, Committee Member
Cristina Rosa, Special Member

Author:

Scully, Erin Denise

Title:

Multitrophic Interactions Contribute to Wood Digestion and Nutritional Ecology in Larval Anoplophora glabripennis (asian Longhorned Beetle)

Graduate Program:

Genetics

Keywords:

metagenomics
transcriptomics
metatranscriptomics
proteomics
lignocellulose
cerambycid
Fusarium solani

File:

Download Dissertation_2013_EScully.final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kelli Hoover, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Edward Carlson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dawn S Luthe, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Michael Geiser, Committee Member
Dr Scott Geib, Special Member

Author:

Saengwilai, Patompong

Title:

Root traits for efficient nitrogen acquisition and genome-wide association study of root anatomical traits in maize (zea mays L.)

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

roots
anatomy
nitrogen
agriculture
aerenchyma
root hairs
crown roots
GWAS
QTL
SNP
genetics

File:

Download Saengwilai_Ph.D.thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jonathan Paul Lynch, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dawn S Luthe, Committee Member
Surinder Chopra, Special Member

Author:

Honaas, Loren Axel

Title:

Tissue specific de novo transcriptomics in the parasitic Orobanchaceae

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Orobanchaceae
Laser Microdissection
Expansin
RNA Seq
Illumina
Triphysaria
Orobanche
Striga
de novo assembly

File:

Download Loren_Honaas_dissertation.pdfDownload Appendices.zip

Committee Members:

Claude Walker Depamphilis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel J Cosgrove, Committee Member
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Committee Member
Dawn S Luthe, Special Member
Naomi S Altman, Special Member