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Improvements To Solanum Tuberosum Cv. ‘Desireé’ Cell Suspension Culture And Nicotiana Tabacum Cv. ‘Petit Havana’ Shoot Induction., Jessica Slade Layton Dec 2020

Improvements To Solanum Tuberosum Cv. ‘Desireé’ Cell Suspension Culture And Nicotiana Tabacum Cv. ‘Petit Havana’ Shoot Induction., Jessica Slade Layton

Masters Theses

Since the 1980s, progress in biotechnology has harnessed the incredible potential of plant biology. Plants have been engineered to be pest and herbicide resistant, enhance stress tolerance, and produce pharmaceutical proteins. Despite these feats of genetic engineering, plant tissue culture remains a limiting factor for future research. Unfortunately, the pressure to quickly innovate and produce novel products has pushed aside research to optimize tissue culture and exploring underlying molecular mechanisms for improved culture conditions. Efficient tissue culture methods are limited to a few plant taxa and are sometimes described in an oversimplified manner under the assumption they are facile to …


Needles In A Haystack Of Protein Diversity: Interrogation Of Complex Biological Samples Through Specialized Strategies In Bottom-Up Proteomics Uncover Peptides Of Interest For Diverse Applications, Manuel I. Villalobos Solis Aug 2020

Needles In A Haystack Of Protein Diversity: Interrogation Of Complex Biological Samples Through Specialized Strategies In Bottom-Up Proteomics Uncover Peptides Of Interest For Diverse Applications, Manuel I. Villalobos Solis

Doctoral Dissertations

Peptide identification is at the core of bottom-up proteomics measurements. However, even with state-of the-art mass spectrometric instrumentation, peptide level information is still lost or missing in these types of experiments. Reasons behind missing peptide identifications in bottom-up proteomics include variable peptide ionization efficiencies, ion suppression effects, as well as the occurrence of chimeric spectra that can lower the efficacy of database search strategies. Peptides derived from naturally abundant proteins in a biological system also have better chances of being identified in comparison to the ones produced from less abundant proteins, at least in regular discovery-based proteomics experiments. This dissertation …