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Manipulation of Seed Carbon Flow from Cellulose to Lipid and Protein Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis to Accelerate the Characterization of Protein-Related Genes in Canola
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Canola (Brassica napus L.) is the major oilseed crop in Canada. After oil extraction, the protein-rich seed meal (around 40% protein) serves as a nutritious feedstock for animals and the protein fraction has potential for human consumption. However, excess fiber in the seed meal (about 33%) can...
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Fall 2022
To form tissue networks, animal cells migrate and interact through proteins protruding from their plasma membranes. Plant cells can do neither, yet plants form vein networks. How plants do so is unclear, but the prevailing hypothesis proposes that GNOM — a regulator of vesicle formation in...
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Fall 2018
Vascular networks transport water, signals and nutrients in both plants and animals; what controls the formation of these networks is thus a central question in biology. In animals, vascular network formation requires direct cell-cell communication and often cell movements, both of which are...
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Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression at Early Stages of Arabidopsis Vein Development
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How multicellular organisms activate gene expression in the correct cells at the correct time is a central question in biology. In animals, in which this question has been investigated extensively, broadly expressed transcription factors activate target gene expression in narrow domains by a...
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Biochemical investigations of two polyketide synthase subclasses – highly reducing/non-reducing pairs, and polyketide synthase non-ribosomal peptide synthetases.
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Cladosporin is a polyketide metabolite that is biosynthesized by a highly reducing (HR)/non-reducing (NR) polyketide synthase (PKS) pair, wherein they catalyse head-totail condensation of acetyl and malonyl CoA units with subsequent β-keto modification. Cladosporin has recently been reported as a...
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Fall 2014
Most multicellular organisms form tissue networks for transport function. What controls the formation of tissue networks is thus a central question in biology. In animals, the formation of these networks often involves extensive cell movements—movements that are instead prevented in plants by a...
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Biosynthetic Studies of Resorcylic Acid Lactones, Hypothemycin, Radicicol, and Dehydrocurvularin
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Fungal polyketides, a vast source for pharmaceutical industries, are biosynthesized by multifunctional iterative polyketide synthases (PKS). The biosynthesis employs complex programming rules, which are currently unresolved. To decode the programming rules, the biosynthesis of three polyketides,...
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Expression and purification of recombinant forms of two Arabidopsis thaliana PR-10 homologues (MLP423 and Bet v 1)
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Pathogenesis related 10 (PR-10) proteins have important roles in mediating plant abiotic and biotic stress tolerance. Most of the members of this family possess ribonuclease activity. The homologues of PR-10 (ABR17) protein, MLP423 and Bet v 1, may have similar biological and physiological...
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Fall 2012
ABSTRACT The plant vascular system transports water and nutrients, but also regulatory molecules that function in short- and long-distance mechanisms to pattern surrounding tissues. As such, the development of the vascular system is tied to the overall patterning and development of the plant...