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Creator:: Burk, Rene F.
Abstract:: Cultivated plants are often living artifacts that can aid in evaluation of historic or cultural landscapes. However, a working definition for “culturally significant plant” is currently lacking in the guidance literature for the cultural resource management practitioners. Based on a review of the literature on cultivated plants as indicators of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: - Camas complex, where prehistoric ‘wild gardens’ (Boyd, 1999) were managed by the indigenous peoples

Creator:: Kaye, Thomas N.
Abstract:: Transition matrix models are one of the most widely used tools for assessing population viability. The technique allows inclusion of environmental variability, thereby permitting estimation of probabilistic events, such as extinction. However, few studies use the technique to compare the effects of management treatments on population viability, and fewer still...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 1989, MacRoberts and MacRoberts 1990), seed germination (Borchert 1989, Boyd and Serafini 1992, Jacobs

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:: identification of differentially expressed genes. Alex Buchannan provided computational support. Pankaj

Creator:: Piña Páez, Carolina G.
Abstract:: Anthropogenic induced climate change is predicted to alter distribution of existing plant populations. As plants migrate over space and time, populations often fragment and contract, affecting basic elements of population dynamics (e.g., population size, gene flow, genetic diversity, etc.). Little is known, however, how these impacts on plant species will...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Pedro, Hannah, Paris, Erin, Alex, Katie, Francine, Ine, Scott, Paula, Juve, Mari, Javier P., Viví

Creator:: Kepler, Ryan M.
Abstract:: Historical concepts of Clavicipitaceae have included a broad range of species that display diverse morphologies, ecological modes and host associations. When subjected to multigene phylogenetic investigation of evolutionary history, the family was found to be polyphyletic, largely driven by diversity in the genus Cordyceps, previously containing over 400 taxa. The...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Alex Boyd proved essential for some of the lab work and programming tasks contributing to this

Creator:: O'Malley, Megan R.
Abstract:: Pseudomonas syringae are plant pathogenic bacteria that cause disease by rapidly multiplying within the aboveground tissues of host plants. Growth of P. syringae within plant host tissues requires the disarmament of host immune defenses that limit microbial growth. To combat host defenses, P. syringae deploys a type III secretion system...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Savory, Dr. Alex Weisberg, Dr. Chih-Feng Wu, Dr. Ed Davis, and Dani Stevens; thank you for sharing

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