Beyond the wall: High-throughput quantification of plant soluble and cell-wall bound phenolics by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (open access)

Beyond the wall: High-throughput quantification of plant soluble and cell-wall bound phenolics by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry

Article describes a study in which a novel high-throughput ultra-high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC–MS/MS) method was established to quantify the levels of 19 flavonoids and 15 other phenolic compounds, including acids, aldehydes, and alcohols.
Date: December 26, 2018
Creator: Cocuron, Jean-Christophe; Casas, Maria Isabel; Yang, Fan & Grotewold, Erich
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Peptide signaling molecules CLE5 and CLE6 affect Arabidopsis leaf shape downstream of leaf patterning transcription factors and auxin (open access)

Peptide signaling molecules CLE5 and CLE6 affect Arabidopsis leaf shape downstream of leaf patterning transcription factors and auxin

Article describes a role in Arabidopsis leaf development for two members of the CLAVATA3/ESR‐RELATED peptide family, CLE5 and CLE6, which lie adjacent to each other on chromosome 2.
Date: December 20, 2018
Creator: DiGennaro, Peter; Grienenberger, Etienne; Dao, Thai Q.; Jun, Ji Hyung & Fletcher, Jennifer C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identification and characterization of a core set of ROS wave‐associated transcripts involved in the systemic acquired acclimation response of Arabidopsis to excess light (open access)

Identification and characterization of a core set of ROS wave‐associated transcripts involved in the systemic acquired acclimation response of Arabidopsis to excess light

Article reveal that the systemic transcriptomic response of plants to excess light stress is extensive in the context of systemic acquired acclimation and involves an early (2 min) and transient stage of transcript expression that includes thousands of genes.
Date: December 6, 2018
Creator: Zandalinas, Sara I.; Sengupta, Soham; Burks, David; Azad, Rajeev K. & Mittler, Ron
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genome Mining of Plant NPFs Reveals Varying Conservation of Signature Motifs Associated With the Mechanism of Transport (open access)

Genome Mining of Plant NPFs Reveals Varying Conservation of Signature Motifs Associated With the Mechanism of Transport

This article focuses on four structural features of nitrate peptide families/proton-coupled oligopeptide transporters/peptide transporters that have been shown by structural and functional studies to be essential to proton-coupled symport transport.
Date: December 4, 2018
Creator: Longo, Antonella; Miles, Nicholas W. & Dickstein, Rebecca
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Marketing via E-mail Solicitation by Predatory (and Legitimate) Journals: An Evaluation of Quality, Frequency, and Relevance (open access)

Marketing via E-mail Solicitation by Predatory (and Legitimate) Journals: An Evaluation of Quality, Frequency, and Relevance

This article studies the marketing practices of predatory journals through the analysis of a a subset of the 1,816 e-mails received by a single university biology faculty member during a 24-month period.
Date: December 3, 2018
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.; Madasu, Dilip; Hawkins, Kevin S. & Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Local and Systemic Metabolic Responses during Light-Induced Rapid Systemic Signaling (open access)

Local and Systemic Metabolic Responses during Light-Induced Rapid Systemic Signaling

This article reports that local application of light stress to one rosette leaf of bolting Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plants resulted in a metabolic response that encompassed local, systemic and transport tissues, demonstrating a high degree of physical and metabolic continuity between different tissues throughout the plant.
Date: December 2018
Creator: Choudhury, Feroza K.; Devireddy, Amith R.; Azad, Rajeev K.; Shulaev, Vladimir & Mittler, Ron
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diabetes Treatment with Sunshine captions transcript

Diabetes Treatment with Sunshine

Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Sujata Argawal presents her research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Argawal, Sujata
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immunized Plants: An Answer to Global Hunger captions transcript

Immunized Plants: An Answer to Global Hunger

Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Devasantosh Mohanty presents his research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Mohanty, Devasantosh
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rapid Responses to Abiotic Stress: Priming the Landscape for the Signal Transduction Network (open access)

Rapid Responses to Abiotic Stress: Priming the Landscape for the Signal Transduction Network

This article proposes that the integration of these signals is mediated through pulses of gene expression that are coordinated through out the plant in a systemic manner by the ROS/Ca⁺² waves.
Date: November 3, 2018
Creator: Kollist, Hannes; Zandalinas, Sara I.; Sengupta, Soham; Nuhkat, Maris; Kangasjärvi, Jaakko & Mittler, Ron
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Combined effects of elevated temperature and Deepwater Horizon oil exposure on the cardiac performance of larval mahi-mahi, Coryphaena hippurus (open access)

Combined effects of elevated temperature and Deepwater Horizon oil exposure on the cardiac performance of larval mahi-mahi, Coryphaena hippurus

This article investigates physiological responses of larval fish to interactions between anthropogenic crude oile xposure andn atural factors.
Date: October 17, 2018
Creator: Perrichon, Prescilla; Mager, Edward M.; Pasparakis, Christina; Stieglitz, John D.; Benetti, Daniel D.; Grosell, Martin et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization (open access)

An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization

This article describes the ideal nature of the Catechyl lignin (C-lignin) via a revised compositional characterization of the vanilla seed coat fiber, new features of the C-lignin's reactivity and stability, and successful attempts at converting it to monomers in near-quantitative yields.
Date: September 28, 2018
Creator: Li, Yanding; Shuai, Li; Kim, Hoon; Hussain Motagamwala, Ali; Mobley, Justin K.; Yue, Fengxia et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Convective oxygen transport during development in embryos of the snapping turtle Chelydra serpentina (open access)

Convective oxygen transport during development in embryos of the snapping turtle Chelydra serpentina

This article describes a study investigating the maturation of convective oxygen transport in embryos of the snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina). Measurements included: mass, oxygen consumption, heart rate, blood oxygen content and affinity and blood flow distribution at 50%, 70% and 90% of the incubation period.
Date: September 24, 2018
Creator: Sartori, Marina R.; Kohl, Zachary F.; Taylor, Edwin W.; Abe, Augusto S. & Crossley, Dane A., II
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A dynamic model of lignin biosynthesis in Brachypodium distachyon (open access)

A dynamic model of lignin biosynthesis in Brachypodium distachyon

Article proposes a dynamic mathematical model that integrates various datasets and other information regarding the lignin pathway in Brachypodium distachyon and permits explanations for some counterintuitive observations.
Date: September 19, 2018
Creator: Faraji, Mojdeh; Fonseca, Luis L.; Escamilla-Treviño, Luis; Barros-Rios, Jaime; Engle, Nancy L.; Yang, Zamin K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A dynamic model of lignin biosynthesis in Brachypodium distachyon (open access)

A dynamic model of lignin biosynthesis in Brachypodium distachyon

This article proposes a dynamic mathematical model that integrates various datasets and other information regarding the lignin pathway in Brachypodium distachyon and permits explanations for some counterintuitive observations.
Date: September 19, 2018
Creator: Faraji, Mojdeh; Fonseca, Luis L.; Escamilla-Treviño, Luis; Barros, Jaime; Engle, Nancy L.; Yang, Zamin K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton CENTRORADIALIS/TERMINAL FLOWER 1/SELF-PRUNING genes functionally diverged to differentially impact plant architecture (open access)

Cotton CENTRORADIALIS/TERMINAL FLOWER 1/SELF-PRUNING genes functionally diverged to differentially impact plant architecture

This article characterizes the CETS gene family from tetraploid cotton in order to understand the regulation of cotton architecture and exploit these principles to enhance crop productivity.
Date: September 10, 2018
Creator: Prewitt, Sarah F.; Ayre, Brian G. & McGarry, Roisin C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
State of the world's raptors: Distributions, threats, and conservation recommendations (open access)

State of the world's raptors: Distributions, threats, and conservation recommendations

Article exploring the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List to examine the conservation status, distributions, threats, and conservation recommendations for all 557 raptor species.
Date: September 6, 2018
Creator: McClure, Christopher J.W.; Westrip, James R.S.; Johnson, Jeff A.; Schulwitz, Sarah; Virani, Munir Z.; Davies, Robert et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gene regulatory networks for lignin biosynthesis in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) (open access)

Gene regulatory networks for lignin biosynthesis in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)

This article presents a combination of computational and experimental approaches to develop gene regulatory networks for lignin formation in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), which has been selected as a biofuel crop in the United States.
Date: May 11, 2018
Creator: Rao, Xiaolan; Chen, Xin; Shen, Hui; Ma, Qin; Li, Guifen; Tang, Yuhong et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of chronic exposure to 12‰ saltwater on the endocrine physiology of juvenile American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) (open access)

Effects of chronic exposure to 12‰ saltwater on the endocrine physiology of juvenile American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)

Article describes experiment in which juvenile alligators were exposed to 12‰ saltwater for 5 weeks to determine the effects of chronic exposure to saline environments.
Date: July 30, 2018
Creator: Faulkner, P. C.; Burleson, Mark L.; Simonitis, L.; Marshall, C.D.; Hala, D. & Petersen, L. H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rapid embryonic accretion of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in the brain of an altricial bird with an aquatic-based maternal diet (open access)

Rapid embryonic accretion of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in the brain of an altricial bird with an aquatic-based maternal diet

This article communicates the results of a study conducted on red-winged blackbirds where brain phospholipid composition during development was measured and diet was manipulated. The dietary study confirmed that nestling brains are sensitive to fatty acid supply. The findings of this article suggest that Red-winged blackbirds may be able to advance cognitive development relative to other altricial species owing to their aquatic maternal diet.
Date: July 23, 2018
Creator: Price, Edwin R.; Sirsat, Sarah K. G.; Sirsat, Tushar S.; Venables, Barney J. & Dzialowski, Edward M. (Edward Michael)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biocultural homogenization: Exotism of the femenine landscape of latin america (open access)

Biocultural homogenization: Exotism of the femenine landscape of latin america

Article discusses the importance of valuing an alternative, ecological, aesthetic and post-modern-exotic hermeneutic in viewing Latin America, and discusses the colonial impression of a "exotic" Latin America.
Date: June 17, 2018
Creator: Castellanos, Angelina Paredes & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Noncatalytic chalcone isomerase-fold proteins in Humulus lupulus are auxiliary components in prenylated flavonoid biosynthesis (open access)

Noncatalytic chalcone isomerase-fold proteins in Humulus lupulus are auxiliary components in prenylated flavonoid biosynthesis

This article characterizes two noncatalytic chalcone isomerase (CHI)-like proteins using engineered yeast harboring all genes required for demethylxanthohumol (DMX) production.
Date: February 6, 2018
Creator: Ban, Zhaonan; Qin, Hao; Mitchell, Andrew J.; Liu, Baoxiu; Zhang, Fengxia; Weng, Jing-Ke et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Developmental phenotypic plasticity helps bridge stochastic weather events associated with climate change

This article posits that the frequently abrupt environmental changes accompanying much longer-term general climate change require consideration of the true nature of environmental change coupled with an expansion of focus to consider developmental phenotypic plasticity.
Date: May 10, 2018
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Threshold Selection Methods for Adaptive Kernel Density Estimation in Disease Mapping (open access)

Evaluation of Threshold Selection Methods for Adaptive Kernel Density Estimation in Disease Mapping

This article assesses the relative performance of threshold selection methods in terms of resolution and reliability for disease mapping.
Date: May 8, 2018
Creator: Ruckthongsook, Warangkana; Tiwari, Chetan; Oppong, Joseph R. & Natesan, Prathiba
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agronomic Performance and Lignin Content of HCT Down-Regulated Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) (open access)

Agronomic Performance and Lignin Content of HCT Down-Regulated Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)

This article evaluates HCT down-regulated alfalfa plants for their forage composition and agronomic performance in the greenhouse and under field conditions.
Date: May 5, 2018
Creator: Bhattarai, Kishor; Rajasekar, Shanmugam; Dixon, R. A. & Monteros, Maria J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library