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Creator:: Skinner, Kristin M.
Abstract:: Graphium sp., a eukaryotic alkanotroph, is able to oxidize small-molecular weight gaseous n-alkanes, diethyl ether and the branched ether, methyl tert butyl ether (MTBE). However, information regarding the biochemistry of fungal-mediated alkane and ether metabolism is limited, and questions regarding the identity of alkane oxidation catalysts and the genetic underpinnings...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: THE DISSERTATION OF Kristin M. Skinner for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Botany and Plant

Creator:: Rivedal, Hannah M.
Abstract:: Winter squash (Cucurbita maxima) grown in Oregon’s Willamette Valley for edible seed, frozen foods, and fresh markets is susceptible to an undiagnosed soilborne disease. Diseased squash fields exhibit symptoms of stunting, root and crown rot, vascular discoloration, and late-season wilt, which in extreme cases can lead to total crop failure....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Kenneth B. Johnson Winter squash (Cucurbita maxima) grown in Oregon’s Willamette Valley

Creator:: Iskra, Anne E.
Abstract:: A multi-year field study was conducted in Oregon and Washington to evaluate the influence of nitrogen fertilization rate and timing on cone quality, nitrate accumulation in cones, severity of powdery mildew (caused by Podosphaera macularis), arthropod pests, and the stability of conservation biological control of the twospotted spider mite (Tetranychus...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: and Thomas Shellhammer assisted with data collection and analysis. Claire Phillips and Kristin

Creator:: Partipilo, Heather M.
Abstract:: Seed piece to plant transmission of the potato late blight pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, occurred with isolates of the clonal lineages US-8 in Oregon and US-11 in Washington in field trials. Average transmission rate across potato cultivars was 0.5 and 2.4% with US-8, and 0.8 and 1.0% with US-11 in 1999...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , representing Botany and Plant Pathology Chair of Department of B Dean of Gthdtiâte School and Plant Patholo

Creator:: Spears, Julie D. H.
Abstract:: The abundance and spatial heterogeneity of coarse woody debris (CWD) on the forest floor is a prominent feature of Pacific Northwest (PNW) forest ecosystems. The effect of CWD on soil solution chemistry, nutrient cycling and availability, soil physical structure and formation of soil organic matter, however, remains unknown. Therefore, studies...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: statistics rock), TJ White, Nadine Wade, Emilie Grossman, Jay Sexton, Kristin Strauss, Teachers in the Woods

Creator:: Andrie, Rachael M.
Abstract:: Pyrenophora tritici-repentis, causal agent of tan spot of wheat, produces multiple host-selective toxins (HSTs), including Ptr ToxA, encoded for by ToxA, Ptr ToxB, encoded for by ToxB, and Ptr ToxC. Variable distribution of these three HSTs among different isolates of P. tritici-repentis, both singularly and in all possible combinations, defines...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Dr. Iovanna Pandelova many thanks for their ideas, encouragement, and perspective, and Kristin

Creator:: Mulvey, Robin L.
Abstract:: The primary objective of this research was to determine if native species within the genera Castilleja and Pedicularis are naturally infected by white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola) in whitebark pine ecosystems of the Oregon and Washington Cascade Range. Secondary objectives were to monitor the phenology of aecial and telial...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Kegley and Robert Danchok (Dorena Genetic Resource Center), Kristin Chadwick (Forest Health Protection

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