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Functional Genomic Studies Of Soybean Defenses Against Pests And Soybean Meal Improvement, Jingyu (Lynn) Lin
Functional Genomic Studies Of Soybean Defenses Against Pests And Soybean Meal Improvement, Jingyu (Lynn) Lin
Doctoral Dissertations
Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] is an important crop worldwide. It has been widely consumed for protein, oil and other soy products. To develop soybean cultivars with greater resistance against pests and improved meal quality, it is important to elucidate the molecular bases of these traits. This dissertation aims to investigate the biochemical and biological functions of soybean genes from four gene families, which are hypothesized to be associated with soybean defense against pests and soybean meal quality. There are three specific objectives in this dissertation. The first one is to determine the function of components in the salicylic …
Developing Biocontainment Strategies To Suppress Transgene Escape Via Pollen Dispersal From Transgenic Plants, Hong Seok Moon
Developing Biocontainment Strategies To Suppress Transgene Escape Via Pollen Dispersal From Transgenic Plants, Hong Seok Moon
Doctoral Dissertations
Genetic engineering is important to enhance crop characteristics and certain traits. Genetically engineered crop cultivation brings environmental and ecological concerns with the potential of unwanted transgene escape and introgression. Transgene escape has been considered as a major environmental and regulatory concern. This concern could be alleviated by appropriate biocontainment strategies. Therefore, it is important to develop efficient and reliable biocontainment strategies.
Removing transgenes from pollen has been known to be the most environmentally friendly biocontainment strategy. A transgene excision vector containing a codon optimized serine resolvase CinH recombinase (CinH) and its recognition sites RS2 were constructed and transformed into tobacco …
Developmental Evolution Of The Progamic Phase In Nymphaeales, Mackenzie Lorraine Taylor
Developmental Evolution Of The Progamic Phase In Nymphaeales, Mackenzie Lorraine Taylor
Doctoral Dissertations
The period between pollination and fertilization, or the progamic phase, is a critical life history stage in seed plants and innovations in this life history stage are hypothesized to have played an important role in the diversification of flowering plants. Over the course of this dissertation research, I investigated programic phase development in Nymphaeales (water lilies), an ancient angiosperm lineage that diverged from the basalmost or next most basal node of the angiosperm phylogenetic tree and that is represented in the oldest angiosperm fossil record. I used field experiments and microscopy to document pollination biology, breeding system, and reproductive developmental …