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Functional and Genetic Analysis of Plant Transcription Factors Involved in the Plant Growth Under Various Environmental Conditions
(2008-05-15)
Arabidopsis serves as a model system for the plant molecular biology. Many biotic and abiotic factors affect plant growth from seed germination to mature plant growth. External factors studied in our research include ...
Functional characterization and pharmacological rescue of the human and porcine neural melanocortin receptors
(2008-08-15)
During the past decade, numerous studies showed that both melanocortin-3 and -4 receptors (MC3R and MC4R) are critically involved in regulation of mammalian energy balance. The MC4R plays a vital role in regulation of food ...
Functional characterization of carboxylesterases in pyrethroid resistant house fly, Musca domestica
(2018-07-26)
House fly, Musca domestica, is a major sanitary pest which can carry and transmit more than 100 human and animal intestinal diseases. Currently, the chemical control with insecticides is still the most efficient weapon to ...
Functional characterization of novel naturally occurring mutations in human melanocortin-3 receptor gene
(2012-12-03)
The prevalence of obesity is increasing in both developed and developing countries. Obesity is a disorder of energy homeostasis, associated with increased risk of diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases and certain types ...
Functional Durability Of A Quartz Crystal Microbalance Sensor For The Rapid Detection Of Salmonella In Liquids From Poultry Packaging
(2000-08-15)
Foodborne disease causes an estimated 4 to 76 million cases of food poisoning with 5,000 associated deaths annually in the United States at a cost of $6.5 –34.9 billion. In poultry products, Salmonella is the most common ...
Functional Genomics Investigation of Siroheme and Heme d1 Biosynthesis
(2019-06-12)
Many bacteria and archaea grow under anaerobic or microaerophilic conditions. In order for these organisms to survive under these conditions, many utilize nitrate or nitrite as terminal electron acceptors for anaerobic ...
Functional Genomics of Air Breathing in Catfish
(2020-05-14)
Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), tra catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus) and walking catfish (Clarias macrocephalus) all belong to order Siluriformes, but I. punctatus does not possess an air breathing organ (ABO) ...
Functional Genomics of Gaba Metabolism in Yeast Thermotolerance
(2008-05-15)
?-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a ubiquitous non-protein amino acid which accumulates rapidly in response to diverse environmental stresses. The GABA shunt is a pathway involving three enzymes, glutamate decarboxylase (GAD, ...
Functional Genomics of Soil Bacteria using a Metagenomics Approach
(2012-07-31)
Soil microbial communities are an abundant resource for natural product discovery. Traditional methods such as cultivation of soil microorganisms from soil under laboratory conditions have lead to discovery of new compounds ...
Functional Identification and Characterization of an Arabidopsis thaliana Gene Involved in Vitamin B6 Biosynthesis
(2005-12-15)
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) is a biological coenzyme
seemingly involved in environmental stress
tolerance and an important vitamin in human
nutrition produced in plants as well as fungi and
bacteria. A series ...
Functional Roles of Conserved Active Site Amino Acids in the Desulfonation Reaction Catalyzed by the Alkanesulfonate Monooxygenase from Escherichia coli
(2008-12-15)
The flavin-dependent alkanesulfonate monooxygenase (SsuD) catalyzes the oxidation of 1-substituted alkanesulfonates producing sulfite and a corresponding aldehyde in the presence of O2 and FMNH2. The reduced flavin is ...
Functional study of the Wnt signaling network that coordinates early anterior-posterior and dorsal-ventral axis specification and patterning in the sea urchin embryo
(2020-05-18)
The establishment and patterning of the different embryonic body axes are crucial events in early development of any embryo. Anterior-posterior (AP) and dorsal-ventral (DV) axis specification and patterning are fundamental ...
Functionalized Polyaniline as a Novel Curing Agent For Epoxy Resin
(2015-05-11)
The aim of this project was to functionalize the backbone of polyaniline with amine based nucleophiles to act as a curing agent for epoxy resins. Much work has been done on the use of polyaniline and other intrinsic ...
Fundamental and Novel Applications of Electrocaloric Effect
(2020-07-23)
The discovery of materials with a giant electrocaloric (EC) coefficient in the last decade triggered the research community to explore the materials with high pyroelectric and electrocaloric coefficient that revived the ...
Fundamental aspects of sperm biology for ecologically and economically important bivalve species in Alabama: Cellular signaling, morphology, and density quantification
(2020-05-21)
The Eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, and freshwater mussels, Ligumia subrostrata and Lampsilis straminea, are significant keystone species in the Eastern United States. These bivalves both provide invaluable environmental ...
Fundamental considerations and application of acoustics as a nondestructive evaluation technique of wood quality properties
(2017-11-20)
The growing global demand for wood and wood products has resulted in a tremendous investment in tree improvement programs with the aim of improving growth, form, and disease tolerance. There has been significant success ...
Fundamental Investigation of Saturated Flow Through Porous Media with Macropores
(2012-01-09)
Among the foremost issues in the area of hydrological sciences is the estimation of infiltration fluxes and the associated contaminant exchange from the near-surface to the ground water table. While the simplest and ...
Fundamental studies of biomass fluidization
(2015-08-19)
The world is presently at a point of making important decisions regarding how to minimize disasters such as super storm, super earthquakes, and landslides that are caused by global warming due to fossil fuel exploration ...
Fundamental Study and Development of 0-3 Dielectric Composites with High Dielectric Constant
(2013-07-25)
Dielectric composites are promising materials for many applications. Polymer-based 0-3 composites with a high dielectric constant represent an important category of dielectric composites being studied in research.
Different ...
Fundamental Study on Kinetics of Hemicellulose Hydrolysis and Bioconversion of Hemicellulose Hydrolysate Mixture into Lactic Acid
(2015-08-18)
In the first part of this dissertation, the kinetics of hemicellulose hydrolysis in dilute-acid hydrolysis of Kramer Corn Stover (KCS) under high-solid conditions was investigated. Dilute-acid pretreatment is one of the ...