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Start Over Graduate Program Plant Biology Degree PHD Year 2013

1. Model engineered cellulose-hemicelluose-pectin nanomaterials for understanding plant cell wall assembly

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Open Access
Author:
Gu, Jin
Title:
Model engineered cellulose-hemicelluose-pectin nanomaterials for understanding plant cell wall assembly
Graduate Program:
Plant Biology
Keywords:
cellulose
hemicellulose
pectin
bacterial cellulose
cellulose nanowhiskers
File:
Download Jin_Gu_phd_thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nicole Robitaille Brown, Committee Member
Seong H Kim, Committee Member
Teh Hui Kao, Committee Member

2. Regulation of Arabidopsis flower and anther development at the transcriptional and post-translational levels

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Open Access
Author:
Lu, Dihong
Title:
Regulation of Arabidopsis flower and anther development at the transcriptional and post-translational levels
Graduate Program:
Plant Biology
Keywords:
Arabidopsis thaliana
flower
anther
meiosis
transcription factor
E3 ubiquitin ligase
SKP1
proteomics
transcriptomics
File:
Download Dihong_Lu_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Hong Ma, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Teh Hui Kao, Committee Member
Surinder Chopra, Committee Member
Timothy W Mcnellis, Committee Member

3. Soil Microbial Diversity and the Influence on Stress Response in Hybrid Poplar

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Open Access
Author:
Herr, Joshua Robert
Title:
Soil Microbial Diversity and the Influence on Stress Response in Hybrid Poplar
Graduate Program:
Plant Biology
Keywords:
Microbial Ecology
Populus
Bioenergy
Next-Generation Sequencing
Genomics
Jasmonic Acid Pathway
Stress Response
File:
Download Herr_Dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:
John Edward Carlson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Member
Seogchan Kang, Committee Member
Istvan Albert, Committee Member

4. Characterization of pathogen effectors and host endogenous peptide elicitors in the rice-magnaporthe oryzae interaction

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Open Access
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

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

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Open Access
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

6. Tissue specific de novo transcriptomics in the parasitic Orobanchaceae

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Open Access
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