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Consumer Preferences for Watermelons: A Conjoint Analysis

Evans, Callie (2008-05-15)

Almost 5,000 years after the first recorded watermelon harvest, people are still harvesting and eating watermelons today. However, different people prefer different attributes of the fruit. The main purpose of this study ...

Container Production and Post-harvest Handling of Lotus (Nelumbo) and Micropropagation of Herbaceous Peony (Paeonia)

Tian, Daike (2008-08-15)

Effects of container soil level, fertilization, planting time and disbudding on lotus (Nelumbo) growth were evaluated in container production. Container soil volume influenced EC, pH, plant growth indexes, and plant ...

Cytokinin Response Factor 4: A Role in Development During Cold Stress in Arabidopsis thaliana

Compton, Margaret Alpha (2012-07-20)

Cold stress is a major cause of crop loss annually in the United States such that a detailed study of the mechanisms and genes behind these stresses are essential for improvement of crop plants. This thesis investigated ...

DNA fingerprinting of Castanea species in USA

Li, Xiaowei (2011-08-08)

Two Castanea species (C. dentata, the American chestnut, and C. pumila, var. pumila, the Allegheny chinkapin, and var. ozarkensis, the Ozark chinkapin) are native to the USA. It has been difficult to differentiate the ...

Functional Analysis of Two NAC Transcription Factors and Transcriptome Analysis under Drought in Citrullus Colocynthis

Wang, Zhuoyu (2014-04-23)

Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad, closely related to watermelon (Citrullus lanatus L.), belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family. It can survive arid environments by maintaining its water content without wilting of the leaves ...

Functional and Genetic Analysis of Plant Transcription Factors Involved in the Plant Growth Under Various Environmental Conditions

Yuan, Kun (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 Genomics of Gaba Metabolism in Yeast Thermotolerance

Cao, Juxiang (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, ...

Impact of grafting on cold responsive gene expression in Citrus unshiu

Huang, Ying (2009-05-11)

Commercial citrus, the most economically important fruit crop in the world, is sensitive to low temperatures. Poncirus trifoliata (L.) Raf., a close relative of Citrus species, has been widely used as a cold hardy rootstock ...

Isolation and Characterization of SCARECROW Suppressor Mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana

Mekala, Vijaya (2008-12-15)

SCARECROW (SCR) is a transcriptional regulator that plays key roles in several developmental processes in a model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. SCR orthologs have been identified in agriculturally important plants such as ...

Isolation of Genes from Cold Acclimated Poncirus trifoliata and Citrus unshiu

Zhang, Cankui (2005-08-15)

Many adverse environmental conditions can affect the productivity and distribution of plant species. Low temperature is one of the most common stresses faced by many plants. Many plants are able to increase their freezing ...

Isolation of Genes from Cold Treated Poncirus trifoliata

Meng, Shasha (2006-12-15)

Low temperature is one of the most critical environmental factors limiting plant growth and productivity. To survive, plants have developed a complex stress response system for defense against various environmental factors. ...

Phylogeny and Biogeography of Watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai] Based on Chloroplast, Nuclear Sequence and AFLP Molecular Marker Data

Liu, Jiarong (2005-12-15)

Watermelons [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai], together with cucumbers, melons of various sorts, summer squashes, winter squashes and pumpkins are the principal food plants of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae). ...

Pyridoxine (Pyridoxamine) 5'-phosphate Oxidase in Arabidopsis Thaliana

Sang, Yuying (2008-12-15)

Vitamin B6 is the collective term for a group of three related compounds, pyridoxine (PN), pyridoxal (PL) and pyridoxamine (PM), and their phosphorylated derivatives, pyridoxine 5'-phosphate (PNP), pyridoxal 5'-phosphate ...

Studies on Drought-Responsive Genes in Citrullus colocynthis

Si, Ying (2009-05-01)

Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad, closely related to watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai.), is a member of the Cucurbitaceae family. This plant is a drought tolerant species with a deep root system, ...