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    • Genetic association of OPR genes with resistance to Hessian fly in hexaploid wheat 

      Tan, Chor Tee; Carver, Brett Frederick; Chen, Ming-Shun; Gu, Yong-Qiang; Yan, Liuling (BioMed Central, 2013-06-01)
      Background: Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor) is one of the most destructive pests of wheat. The genes encoding 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid reductase (OPR) and lipoxygenase (LOX) play critical roles in insect resistance ...
    • Genetic basis of the very short life cycle of 'Apogee' wheat 

      Li, Genqiao; Boontung, Rungravee; Powers, Carol; Belamkar, Vikas; Huang, Tianrong; Miao, Fang; Baenziger, P. Stephen; Yan, Liuling (BioMed Central, 2017-10-31)
      Background: 'Apogee' has a very short life cycle among wheat cultivars (flowering 25 days after planting under a long day and without vernalization), and it is a unique genetic material that can be used to accelerate cycling ...
    • Genetic diversity among Arthrobacter species collected across a heterogeneous series of terrestrial deep-subsurface sediments as determined on the basis of 16S rRNA and recA gene sequences 

      van Waasbergen, Lorraine G.; Balkwill, David L.; Crocker, Fiona H.; Bjornstad, Bruce N.; Miller, Robert V. (American Society for Microbiology, 2000-08)
      This study was undertaken in an effort to understand how the population structure of bacteria within terrestrial deep-subsurface environments correlates with the physical and chemical structure of their environment. ...
    • Genetic mapping of quantitative trait loci for end-use quality and grain minerals in hard red winter wheat 

      Yu, Shuhao; Assanga, Silvano O.; Awika, Joseph M.; Ibrahim, Amir M. H.; Rudd, Jackie C.; Xue, Qingwu; Guttieri, Mary J.; Zhang, Guorong; Baker, Jason A.; Jessup, Kirk E.; Liu, Shuyu (MDPI, 2021-12-11)
      To meet the demands of different wheat-based food products, traits related to end-use quality become indispensable components in wheat improvement. Thus, markers associated with these traits are valuable for the timely ...
    • Genetic modification of alternative respiration in Nicotiana benthamiana affects basal and salicylic acid-induced resistance to potato virus X 

      Lee, Wing-Sham; Fu, Shih-Feng; Verchot, Jeanmarie; Carr, John P. (BioMed Central, 2011-02-28)
      Background: Salicylic acid (SA) regulates multiple anti-viral mechanisms, including mechanism(s) that may be negatively regulated by the mitochondrial enzyme, alternative oxidase (AOX), the sole component of the alternative ...
    • Genetic trends in winter wheat yield and test weight under dual-purpose and grain-only management systems 

      Khalil, Iftikhar H.; Carver, Brett F.; Krenzer, Eugene G.; MacKown, Charles T.; Horn, Gerald W. (Crop Science Society of America, 2002-05)
      Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars of the southern Great Plains are traditionally bred in environments managed for grain production only but are commonly grown for the dual-purpose of producing winter forage and grain ...
    • Genome of Diuraphis noxia, a global aphid pest of small grains 

      Nicholson, Scott J.; Nickerson, Michael L.; Dean, Michael; Song, Yan; Hoyt, Peter R.; Rhee, Hwanseok; Kim, Changhoon; Puterka, Gary J. (BioMed Central, 2015-06-05)
      Background: The Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia Kurdjumov, is one of the most important pests of small grains throughout the temperate regions of the world. This phytotoxic aphid causes severe systemic damage symptoms ...
    • Genome of the anaerobic fungus Orpinomyces sp. strain C1A reveals the unique evolutionary history of a remarkable plant biomass degrader 

      Youssef, Noha H.; Couger, M. B.; Struchtemeyer, Christopher G.; Liggenstoffer, Audra S.; Prade, Rolf A.; Najar, Fares Z.; Atiyeh, Hasan K.; Wilkins, Mark R.; Elshahed, Mostafa S. (American Society for Microbiology, 2013-08)
      Anaerobic gut fungi represent a distinct early-branching fungal phylum (Neocallimastigomycota) and reside in the rumen, hindgut, and feces of ruminant and nonruminant herbivores. The genome of an anaerobic fungal isolate, ...
    • Genome of the long-living sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.) 

      Ming, Ray; VanBuren, Robert; Liu, Yanling; Yang, Mei; Han, Yuepeng; Li, Lei-Ting; Zhang, Qiong; Kim, Min-Jeong; Schatz, Michael C.; Campbell, Michael; Li, Jingping; Bowers, John E.; Tang, Haibao; Lyons, Eric; Ferguson, Ann A.; Narzisi, Giuseppe; Nelson, David R.; Blaby-Haas, Crysten E.; Gschwend, Andrea R.; Jiao, Yuannian; Der, Joshua P.; Zeng, Fanchang; Han, Jennifer; Min, Xiang Jia; Hudson, Karen A.; Singh, Ratnesh; Grennan, Aleel K.; Karpowicz, Steven J.; Watling, Jennifer R.; Ito, Kikukatsu; Robinson, Sharon A.; Hudson, Matthew E.; Yu, Qingyi; Mockler, Todd C.; Carroll, Andrew; Zheng, Yun; Sunkar, Ramanjulu; Jia, Ruizong; Chen, Nancy; Arro, Jie; Wai, Ching Man; Wafula, Eric; Spence, Ashley; Han, Yanni; Xu, Liming; Zhang, Jisen; Peery, Rhiannon; Haus, Miranda J.; Xiong, Wenwei; Walsh, James A.; Wu, Jun; Wang, Ming-Li; Zhu, Yun J.; Paull, Robert E.; Britt, Anne B.; Du, Chunguang; Downie, Stephen R.; Schuler, Mary A.; Michael, Todd P.; Long, Steve P.; Ort, Donald R.; Schopf, J. William; Gang, David R.; Jiang, Ning; Yandell, Mark; dePamphilis, Claude W.; Merchant, Sabeeha S.; Paterson, Andrew H.; Buchanan, Bob B.; Li, Shaohua; Shen-Miller, Jane (BioMed Central, 2013-05-10)
      Background: Sacred lotus is a basal eudicot with agricultural, medicinal, cultural and religious importance. It was domesticated in Asia about 7,000 years ago, and cultivated for its rhizomes and seeds as a food crop. It ...
    • Genome-wide expression profiling in leaves and roots of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) exposed to salinity 

      Yaish, Mahmoud W.; Patankar, Himanshu V.; Assaha, Dekoum V. M.; Zheng, Yun; Al-Yahyai, Rashid; Sunkar, Ramanjulu (BioMed Central, 2017-03-22)
      Background: Date palm, as one of the most important fruit crops in North African and West Asian countries including Oman, is facing serious growth problems due to salinity, arising from persistent use of saline water for ...
    • Genome-wide identification of the miRNAome in response to salinity stress in date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) 

      Yaish, Mahmoud W.; Sunkar, Ramanjulu; Zheng, Yun; Ji, Bo; Al-Yahyai, Rashid; Farooq, Sardar A. (Frontiers Media, 2015-11-05)
      Although date palm is relatively salt-tolerant, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanisms that contribute to its salt tolerance. Only recently, investigators have uncovered microRNA-mediated post-transcriptional ...
    • Genome-wide identification of the Phaseolus vulgaris sRNAome using small RNA and degradome sequencing 

      Formey, Damien; Iniguez, Luis Pedro; Pelaez, Pablo; Li, Yong-Fang; Sunkar, Ramanjulu; Sanchez, Federico; Reyes, Jose Luis; Hernandez, Georgina (BioMed Central, 2015-06-02)
      Background: MiRNAs and phasiRNAs are negative regulators of gene expression. These small RNAs have been extensively studied in plant model species but only 10 mature microRNAs are present in miRBase version 21, the most ...
    • Genome-wide screen identifies a single B-defensin gene cluster in the chicken: Implications for the origin and evolution of mammalian defensins 

      Xiao, Yanjing; Hughes, Austin L.; Ando, Junko; Matsuda, Yoichi; Cheng, Jan-Fang; Skinner-Noble, Donald; Zhang, Guolong (BioMed Central, 2004-08-13)
      Background: Defensins comprise a large family of cationic antimicrobial peptides that are characterized by the presence of a conserved cysteine-rich defensin motif. Based on the spacing pattern of cysteines, these defensins ...
    • Genomic comparison of plant pathogenic and nonpathogenic Serratia marcescens strains by suppressive subtractive hybridization 

      Zhang, Q.; Melcher, U.; Zhou, L.; Najar, F. Z.; Roe, B. A.; Fletcher, J. (American Society for Microbiology, 2005-12)
      Cucurbit yellow vine disease (CYVD) is caused by disease-associated Serratia marcescens strains that have phenotypes significantly different from those of nonphytopathogenic strains. To identify the genetic differences ...
    • Genomic data for 78 chickens from 14 populations 

      Li, Diyan; Che, Tiandong; Chen, Binlong; Tian, Shilin; Zhou, Xuming; Zhang, Guolong; Li, Miao; Gaur, Uma; Li, Yan; Luo, Majing; Zhang, Long; Xu, Zhongxian; Zhao, Xiaoling; Yin, Huadong; Wang, Yan; Jin, Long; Tang, Qianzi; Xu, Huailiang; Yang, Mingyao; Zhou, Rongjia; Li, Ruiqiang; Zhu, Qing; Li, Mingzhou (Oxford University Press, 2017-06)
      Background: Since the domestication of the red jungle fowls (Gallus gallus; dating back to~10 000 B.P.) in Asia, domestic chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) have been subjected to the combined effects of natural selection ...
    • Genomic prediction accuracies in space and time for height and wood density of Douglas-fir using exome capture as the genotyping platform 

      Thistlethwaite, Frances R.; Ratcliffe, Blaise; Klapste, Jaroslav; Porth, Ilga; Chen, C. L.; Stoehr, Michael U.; El-Kassaby, Yousry A. (BioMed Central, 2017-12-02)
      Background: Genomic selection (GS) can offer unprecedented gains, in terms of cost efficiency and generation turnover, to forest tree selective breeding; especially for late expressing and low heritability traits. Here, ...
    • Genomic resources for a model in adaptation and speciation research: Characterization of the Poecilia mexicana transcriptome 

      Kelley, Joanna L.; Passow, Courtney N.; Plath, Martin; Rodriguez, Lenin Arias; Yee, Muh-Ching; Tobler, Michael (BioMed Central, 2012-11-21)
      Background: Elucidating the genomic basis of adaptation and speciation is a major challenge in natural systems with large quantities of environmental and phenotypic data, mostly because of the scarcity of genomic resources ...
    • Geometry of planar surfaces and exceptional fillings 

      Hoffman, Neil R.; Purcell, Jessica S. (2015-04-07)
    • Global heart of GO-GN 

      Essmiller, Kathy; Baff, Deb (Association for Learning Technology, 2020-04-01)
      "GO-GN the Global OER Graduate Network, is a network of PhD Candidates around the world whose research projects include a focus on open education. Over two hundred experts, supervisors, mentors and interested parties connect ...
    • GO-GN conceptual frameworks guide 

      Essmiller, Kathy; Farrow, R.; Iniesto, F.; Weller, M.; Pitt, R.; Algers, A.; Baas, M.; Bozkurt, A.; Cox, G.; Czerwonogora, A.; Elias, T.; Funk, J.; Lambert, S.; Mittelmeier, J.; Nagashima, T.; Rabin, E.; Rets, I.; Spica, E.; Vladimirschi, V.; Witthaus, G. (Open University, 2021-09-15)
      This collaboratively written book brings together insights from a range of researchers into their use of conceptual frameworks in studying open education. Also included is an overview of different approaches to understanding ...