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THE ECO-PHYSIOLOGY, STRESS RESPONSE REGULATION, AND ENGINEERING OF SHEWANELLA SPECIES FOR INDUSTRIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS
(2016-11-28)
In recent decades, there has been tremendous interest in applying environmental microbiology for waste treatment, bioremediation and sustainable energy production. As one of the most important model environmental microbes, ...
An Assessment of Microbial Communities and Their Potential Activities Associated with Oil Producing Environments
(2015-06)
Microbial populations have been found in oil-associated environments as early as the 1920s. The proliferation and metabolic activities of these microorganisms can have profound deleterious effects on the infrastructure ...
RESPONSES OF SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES TO CLIMATE WARMING
(2017)
Strong scientific evidence supports that anthropogenic activities since industrialization have caused instability in earth’s climate, featured by increasing global surface temperature, increasing greenhouse gas concentration ...
ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NITRATE REDUCING/DENITRIFYING BACTERIA FROM TALLGRASS PRAIRIE SOILS
(2012)
This dissertation addresses the long term impact of crude oil/brine (e.g. salt water) spills on biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen in tallgrass prairie soils. The study sites were prairie soils that were accidently ...
Measuring the Impact of Microbial Communities and their Proliferation in Engineered Ecosystems
(2016-06)
The interactions between humans, the structures we build, and the microorganisms that inhabit these spaces are inescapable. Engineered ecosystems are classified broadly as any ecosystem built or managed by humans. Buildings ...
THE USE OF REMOTE SENSING AND EDDY COVARIANCE TECHNOLOGIES TO CHARACTERIZE CROPLAND, DROUGHT AND LAND MANAGEMENTS AND THEIR IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS
(2017-05-12)
With the increasing population, human needs more food, fresh water, and other ecosystem services, which burdens the agricultural and natural ecosystems. Under the background of climate change, meeting these human needs ...
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF PLUMBAGO ZEYLANICA SPERM-SPECIFIC ISOPENTENYLTRANSFERASE (IPT) GENE IN HETEROLOGOUS SYSTEMS
(2010)
Plumbago zeylanica is a unique model plant for the study of flowering plant heterospermy and preferential fertilization. During double fertilization, one sperm cell, which is physically associated with the vegetative nucleus ...
Ecological Investigations of Hydrocarbonoclastic Microbial Communities Associated with the Built-Environment
(2016-09)
Evidence for the microbial metabolism of hydrocarbons is routinely identified in diverse habitats, but particularly those associated with the production, processing, storage and use of petroleum. In these environments, ...
METAGENOMIC INSIGHTS INTO MICROBIAL COMMUNITY RESPONSES TO LONG-TERM ELEVATED CO2
(2014)
Understanding how belowground microbial communities respond to increasing atmospheric CO2 is of crucial importance for global change biology, microbial ecology and predictive biology. However, our understanding of CO2 ...
DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR ANALYZING MICROBIAL FUNCTIONS AND INTERACTIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL METAGENOMES
(2017-05-12)
Microorganisms are ubiquitous on earth, and they interact each other to form communities, which play unique and integral roles in various biochemical processes and functions that are of critical importance in global ...