Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Author "Goertzen, Leslie"

Cytokinin is an important hormone involved in numerous aspects of plant growth and development. A newly identified group of transcription factors- Cytokinin Response Factors (CRFs) has been included as a side branch to ...

Hyperaccumulators are plants that take up, transport, and sequester large amounts of an element in their tissues. By doing this, they often achieve tissue concentrations that are toxic to most organisms. In this dissertation, ...

Overall, the goal of this project is to understand how the response to ethanol in males and females has diverged between species, which is an essential first step in connecting phenotypic differences in this response to ...

Genomic sequencing has become ubiquitous within the discipline of Biology. Here I use two case studies in which whole genomic DNA facilitates answers to foundational biological questions for organisms that do not have ...

This thesis explores how invasive species affect native biodiversity. Specifically, I explore how the invasive ant species, Solenopsis invicta influences the recipient native ant community in pine-hardwood forests. These ...

The phytohormone cytokinin (CK) was first discovered over sixty years ago, and the decades following have produced an enormous amount of data about the various roles CK plays in intracellular signaling, gene expression, ...