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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 ...
ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION AND ANAEROBIC PHYSIOLOGY OF n-ALKANE DEGRADATION BY BACTERIAL ISOLATES AND MIXED COMMUNITIES
(2011)
In the first chapter, carbon and hydrogen isotope fractionation of n-alkanes was examined in order to compare aliphatic hydrocarbon biodegradation under oxic and anoxic conditions. Desulfoglaeba alkanexedens, a sulfate-reducing ...
Characterization of MILDEW RESISTANCE LOCUS O Mediated Pollen Tube Reception
(2017-12)
Beyond its importance for the subsistence of all plant species, and thus life on earth, plant reproduction is fundamental to all human agricultural exploits. Understanding the mechanisms regulating reproduction is central ...
AEROBIC RESPIRATION AND ECOLOGY OF Escherichia coli IN THE MOUSE CECUM
(2011)
The gastrointestinal tract contains a complex microbial ecosystem that exists in a symbiotic relationship with its host and plays an important role in maintaining human health. Escherichia coli, a facultative anaerobe, ...
Conversion of acids to alcohols by Clostridium ragsdalei strain P11: Process optimization and biochemistry
(2013)
Research focus was directed toward the development of a biocatalyst that can be used to produce commodity chemicals and transportation fuels from volatile fatty acids ubiquitous in waste biomass. Clostridium ragsdalei was ...
Responses of Belowground Carbon Dynamics to Warming in Southern Great Plains
(2012)
Compared with research on aboveground carbon (C) processes in grassland ecosystems, little is known on how belowground C processes would respond to projected global warming. In this dissertation, responses of belowground ...
Response of the soil microbiome to climate change
(2011)
Anthropogenically induced climate change is a multi-factor process that will likely exert significant pressure on biogeochemical cycling of important elements such as carbon and nitrogen in all environments. Central to the ...