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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

Author:

Cong, Fang

Title:

A STRATEGY TO FACILITATE THE CONVERSION OF LIGNOCELLULOSE TO BIOETHANOL VIA LIGNIN MODIFICATION

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

lignin
bioethanol
poplar
signal peptide
amino acid
crosslink
lignocellulose

File:

Download Fang_Cong_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ming Tien, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ming Tien, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Edward Carlson, Committee Member
Nicole Robitaille Brown, Committee Member
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Member
Thomas Lehman Richard, Committee Member

Author:

Sharda, Jori Nerissa

Title:

ROOT ANATOMICAL MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN HOST PLANT CONTROL OF ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL COLONIZATION

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

hypodermal passage cells
arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization
root anatomy
hypodermal suberization
phosphorus
intercellular air space

File:

Download Jori_Sharda_Doctoral_Dissertation4.pdf

Committee Members:

David M Sylvia, Committee Member
Jonathan Paul Lynch, Committee Member
David Eissenstat, Committee Member
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Guo, Jing

Title:

CELLULOSE NANOSTRUCTURE AND BINDING CHARACTERISTICS

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

cellulose binding modules
cellulose nanowhiskers
Cellulose nanostructure

File:

Download Jing_PhD_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey M Catchmark, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Teh Hui Kao, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Committee Member
James David Kubicki, Committee Member

Author:

Robbins, Michael Lawrence

Title:

TISSUE-SPECIFIC PATTERNING SPECIFIED BY A MULTICOPY PERICARP COLOR1 ALLELE IN MAIZE

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

transposon
maize
enhancer
flavonoid
mosaic
DNA methylation

File:

Download Michael_Robbins_Thesis__submitted_version_.pdf

Committee Members:

Surinder Chopra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Member
David Robert Huff, Committee Member
Paula Mc Steen, Committee Member

Author:

Sekhon, Rajandeep Singh

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF REGULATION OF MAIZE PERICARP COLOR1 BY AN EPIGENETIC MODIFIER UNSTABLE FACTOR FOR ORANGE1

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Tandem repeat
DNA methylation
Epigenetics
Gene regulation
Maize
Epiallele

File:

Download Thesis_Rajandeep_Sekhon.pdf

Committee Members:

Surinder Chopra, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David M Braun, Committee Member
Majid R Foolad, Committee Member
Timothy W Mcnellis, Committee Member

Author:

Nilson, Sarah Elisabeth

Title:

HETEROTRIMERIC G PROTEIN REGULATION OF TRANSPIRATION EFFICIENCY, STOMATAL DENSITY, AND PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

transpiration efficiency
Arabidopsis thaliana
Heterotrimeric G proteins
stomatal density
phenotypic plasticity

File:

Download Nilson_thesis_2009.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarah Mary Assmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah Mary Assmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paula Mc Steen, Committee Member
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Member
David Eissenstat, Committee Member

Author:

Slewinski, Thomas Louis

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF GENES THAT REGULATE CARBOHYDRATE PARTITIONING IN MAIZE

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Carbohydrate partitioning
Maize
Sucrose Transporter
Genetics

File:

Download Thomas_L_Slewinski_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David Braun, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David M Braun, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paula M Mc Steen, Committee Member
Kathleen Marie Brown, Committee Member
Richard Cyr, Committee Member
Mark Guiltinan, Committee Member

Author:

Meng, Xiaoying

Title:

FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF S-RNASE-BASED SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY IN PETUNIA INFLATA

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

self-incompatibility
Rosaceae
protein degradation
Plantaginaceae
Petunia inflata
Competitive interaction
S-locus F-box protein
Solanaceae
S-RNase
ubiquitination

File:

Download MengXY_Dissertation_2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Teh Hui Kao, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Teh Hui Kao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hong Ma, Committee Member
Timothy W Mcnellis, Committee Member
Surinder Chopra, Committee Member

Author:

Jiao, Yuannian

Title:

Phylogenomic analysis of ancient genome duplications in the history of plants

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Whole genome duplication
Phylogenomics

File:

Download Yuannian_thesis_29AUG.pdf

Committee Members:

Claude Walker Depamphilis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Claude Walker Depamphilis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hong Ma, Committee Member
John Edward Carlson, Committee Member
Webb Colby Miller, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member