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  • Investigating Transcriptional Control of Specialized Gene Expression in Plants

    Creator:
    Fraser, Valerie N.
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    Specialized or secondary metabolism is a collection of pathways and small molecules that, while beneficial to an organism, are not strictly necessary for survival. Plants use secondary metabolites to, among other things, attract pollinators, defend against biotic and abiotic stressors, and form symbioses. Natural products from plants have seen an...
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    , and Dr. Kerry McPhail—thank you for your personal and professional mentorship and support, as well

  • Characterization of Neurospora crassa and Fusarium graminearum mutants defective in repeat-induced point mutation

    Creator:
    Pomraning, Kyle R.
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    Mutation of repetitive DNA by repeat-induced point mutation (RIP) is a process that occurs in many filamentous fungi of the Ascomycota during the sexual cycle. Concurrently, direct DNA repeats are often deleted by homologous recombination at high frequency during the sexual cycle. Thus, the processes of RIP and deletion compete...
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    computational. My thanks also go out to my graduate committee, Kerry McPhail, Todd Mockler, Steve Strauss and

  • Identification and characterization of type III effector proteins in plant-associated bacteria

    Creator:
    Thomas, William J.
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    Symbioses between microbes and multicellular eukaryotes are found in all biomes, and encompass a spectrum of symbiotic lifestyles that includes parasitism and disease, commensalism, and mutually beneficial interdependent host-microbe relationships. Regardless of outcome, these symbiotic lifestyles are governed by a complex molecular "courtship" between microbe and potential host. This courtship...
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    also to the members of my graduate committee—Joyce Loper, Kerry McPhail, Martin Schuster, Virginia

  • Biosynthetic engineering of new pactamycins

    Creator:
    Lu, Wanli
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    Among the myriad of naturally occurring bioactive compounds are the aminocyclopentitol-containing natural products that represent a family of sugar-derived microbial secondary metabolites, such as the antibiotics pactamycin, allosamidin, and trehazolin. Pactamycin, a structurally unique aminocyclitol antibiotic isolated from Streptomyces pactum, consists of a 5-membered ring aminocyclitol (cyclopentitol) unit, two aromatic...
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    . Mark Zabriskie, Dr. Arup Indra, Dr. Xihou Yin, and Dr. Kerry McPhail for their valuable time and