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Creator:: McMurtrey, Shawn
Abstract:: Within the Pacific Northwest, USA, root diseases of conifers are a major forest health concern. These diseases are primarily caused by basidiomycete fungi. These fungal associates play a vital role in carbon sequestration but also have a significant negative economic impact within the timber industry. As a result, research on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Weitemier, Kevin A.
Abstract:: At a time when the biodiversity on Earth is being rapidly lost, new technologies and methods in genomic analysis are fortunately allowing scientists to catalog and explore the diversity that remains more efficiently and precisely. The studies in this dissertation investigate genomic diversity within the milkweed genus, Asclepias, at multiple...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Condon, Lea A.
Abstract:: We are at risk of losing the sagebrush steppe in the floristic Great Basin to the invasion of Bromus tectorum L., cheatgrass. The floristic Great Basin includes the Central Basin and Range, the Northern Basin and Range, and the Snake River Plain. The Great Basin receives most of its precipitation...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Quandt, C. Alisha
Abstract:: Fungi in the genus Tolypocladium are diverse in their host associations, but the predominant ecologies include parasites of the ectomycorrhizal genus Elaphomyces and pathogens of insects. The aim of this dissertation research is to examine the evolution of these fungi and their host associations. To accomplish this several lines of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the study. Walter Gams, João P. M. Araújo, Sayaka Ban, Harry C. Evans, David Hughes, Richard

Creator:: Maree, Hans J., Almeida, Rodrigo P. P., Bester, Rachelle, Chooi, Kar Mun, Cohen, Daniel, Dolja, Valerian V., Fuchs, Marc F., Golino, Deborah A., Jooste, Anna E. C., Martelli, Giovanni P., Naidu, Rayapati A., Rowhani, Adib, Saldarelli, Pasquale, and Burger, Johan T.
Abstract:: Grapevine leafroll disease (GLD) is one of the most important grapevine viral diseases affecting grapevines worldwide. The impact on vine health, crop yield, and quality is difficult to assess due to a high number of variables, but significant economic losses are consistently reported over the lifespan of a vineyard if...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: FJ467503 6 Mealybugs Hu et al. (1990) GLRaV-5a Ampelovirus 35 13384b FR822696 6 Mealybugs Walter and

Creator:: Smith, Jane E. (Jane Elizabeth)
Abstract:: Before the arrival of Euro-Americans, the inland Pacific Northwest was settled by native people whose frequent intentional burning of the landscape promoted open stands dominated by large fire-resistant ponderosa pine. Fire suppression for nearly a century, livestock grazing, and logging of the largest trees has resulted in forests characterized by...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON Jane E. Smith1, Donaraye McKay', Chris G. Niwa', Walter G. Thies', Greg

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