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- 1Ozga, Jocelyn (Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
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- 1Weselake, Randall (Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
- 1Weselake, Randall, J (Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science)
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Development and Application of Isotope Labeling Method and Data Processing Program for Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry Based Metabolome Profiling
DownloadSpring 2015
The objective of this thesis focuses on establishing a software tool (IsoMS) used in the quantification and qualification of metabolites in complex biological samples, developing robust methods to extract metabolites from different plant samples, and applying a differential 13C-/12C-isotope...
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Engineering Enhanced Performance in Plant Diacylglycerol Acyltransferase and Long-Chain Acyl-CoA Synthetase
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Triacylglycerol (TAG) is the major storage lipid in higher plants and has great nutritional and industrial value. Plant storage lipid biosynthesis involves different subcellular compartments and a complex network of enzymes and proteins. Among them, endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-bound diacylglycerol...
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Functional Characterization of Plant Patatin-like Phospholipase A III in Transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana Producing 18 Carbon Hydroxy Fatty Acids
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Hydroxy fatty acid (HFA)-enriched oils are valuable in many oleo-chemical industries. The major natural source of HFA, however, is castor (Ricinus communis) seed, which is poisonous to human beings and animals. Although over-expressing a castor OLEATE 12-HYDROXYLASE (RcFAH12) in Arabiodpsis...
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LL-diaminopimelate aminotransferase: the mechanism of substrate recognition and specificity
DownloadSpring 2011
Amino acid biosynthesis is an essential process in living organisms. Certain amino acids can be synthesized by some organisms but not by others. L-Lysine is one of the essential amino acids that bacteria can synthesize but humans cannot. This is somewhat inconvenient for humans as much of their...
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Spring 2013
The plant vascular system is a network of vascular strands that transport nutrients and signals. Some of these signals control the development of non-vascular tissues surrounding vascular strands; some others coordinate the development of new branches, leaves, and flowers with that of new roots....