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Development and Use of a Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) Transformation Pipeline by the Bioenergy Science Center to Evaluate Plants for Reduced Cell Wall Recalcitrance (open access)

Development and Use of a Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) Transformation Pipeline by the Bioenergy Science Center to Evaluate Plants for Reduced Cell Wall Recalcitrance

This article provides information on the organization and outcomes of the BioEnergy Science Center Transformation Pipeline, and supplies useful information when developing coordinated, large-scale, multi-institutional reverse genetic pipelines to improve crop traits.
Date: December 22, 2017
Creator: Nelson, Richard S.; Stewart, C. Neal, Jr.; Gou, Jiqing; Holladay, Susan; Gallego-Giraldo, Lina; Flanagan, Amy et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and use of a switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) transformation pipeline by the BioEnergy Science Center to evaluate plants for reduced cell wall recalcitrance (open access)

Development and use of a switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) transformation pipeline by the BioEnergy Science Center to evaluate plants for reduced cell wall recalcitrance

Article examines the creation of a transformation pipeline (TP) to produce plants with decreased recalcitrance and a laboratory information management system (LIMS) for data compilation from these plants. While many genes accepted into the TP resulted in transgenic switchgrass without modified lignin or biomass content, a group of genes with potential to improve lignocellulosic biofuel yields was identified. Results from transgenic lines targeting xyloglucan and lignin structure provide examples of the types of information available on switchgrass lines produced within BioEnergy Science Center (BESC).
Date: December 22, 2017
Creator: Nelson, Richard S.; Stewart, C. Neal; Gou, Jiqing; Holladay, Susan; Gallego-Giraldo, Lina; Flanagan, Amy et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Porphyrinoid rotaxanes: building a mechanical picket fence (open access)

Porphyrinoid rotaxanes: building a mechanical picket fence

This article describes the active template CuAAC synthesis of interlocked triazole functionalised porphyrinoids in excellent yield.
Date: August 3, 2017
Creator: Ngo, T. H.; Labuta, J.; Lim, G. N.; Webre, W. A.; D'Souza, Francis; Karr, P. A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tracing the accretion history of supermassive black holes through X-ray variability: results from the Chandra Deep Field-South (open access)

Tracing the accretion history of supermassive black holes through X-ray variability: results from the Chandra Deep Field-South

This article studies the X-ray variability properties of distant active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the Chandra Deep Field-South region over 17 yr, up to z ~ 4, and compare them with those predicted by models based on local samples.
Date: July 14, 2017
Creator: Paolillo, Maurizio; Papadakis, I.; Brandt, William Nielsen; Luo, Bin; Xue, Yongquan; Tozzi, Paolo et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development, Validation, and Application of the Microbiology Concept Inventory (open access)

Development, Validation, and Application of the Microbiology Concept Inventory

This article describes the creation and validation of a new microbiology concept inventory using the American Society for Microbiology Curriculum Guidelines.
Date: October 5, 2017
Creator: Paustian, Timothy D.; Briggs, Amy G.; Brennan, R. E.; Boury, Nancy; Buchner, John; Harris, Shannon et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heart Performance Determination by Visualization in Larval Fishes: Influence of Alternative Models for Heart Shape and Volume (open access)

Heart Performance Determination by Visualization in Larval Fishes: Influence of Alternative Models for Heart Shape and Volume

This article assesses the validity of three different heart models applied to digital images of complete cardiac cycles in larval mahi-mahi and red drum.
Date: July 4, 2017
Creator: Perrichon, Prescilla; Grosell, Martin & Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the [2Fe–2S] Cluster-Binding Domain of NEET Proteins Reveal Key Molecular Determinants That Induce Their Cluster Transfer/Release (open access)

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the [2Fe–2S] Cluster-Binding Domain of NEET Proteins Reveal Key Molecular Determinants That Induce Their Cluster Transfer/Release

Article examines NEET proteins and aberrant cluster release, which is implicated in a variety of human diseases, including cancer.
Date: October 31, 2017
Creator: Pesce, Luca; Calandrini, Vania; Marjault, Henri-Baptiste; Lipper, Colin H.; Rossetti, Gulia; Mittler, Ron et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
RBS Study of a Dilute Alloy of Ga(99.8% at.):Bi(0.2% at.) (open access)

RBS Study of a Dilute Alloy of Ga(99.8% at.):Bi(0.2% at.)

This paper from the 2016 Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry conference proceedings describes an attempt to observe an atomic bismuth monolayer with Rutherford backscattering to demonstrate the surface concentration of the bismuth over the alloy in the bulk.
Date: October 26, 2017
Creator: Peterson, Randolph S.; Augustine, Carlyn N.; Beriont, Griffin G.; Farr, Aidan T.; Jenkins, William T. J.; Morris, Taylor A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An efficient and accurate framework for calculating lattice thermal conductivity of solids: AFLOW—AAPL Automatic Anharmonic Phonon Library (open access)

An efficient and accurate framework for calculating lattice thermal conductivity of solids: AFLOW—AAPL Automatic Anharmonic Phonon Library

This article presents the Automatic Anharmonic Phonon Library.
Date: November 17, 2016
Creator: Plata, Jose J.; Nath, Pinku; Usanmaz, Demet; Carrete, Jesús; Toher, Cormac; de Jong, Maarten et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brassinosteroid Mediated Cell Wall Remodeling in Grasses Under Abiotic Stress (open access)

Brassinosteroid Mediated Cell Wall Remodeling in Grasses Under Abiotic Stress

This article focuses on recent advances in brassinosteroid-regulated cell wall biosynthesis and remodeling in response to stresses, comparing the authors' understanding of the mechanisms in grass species with those in the more studied dicots.
Date: May 17, 2017
Creator: Rao, Xiaolan & Dixon, R. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamic Changes in Transcriptome and Cell Wall Composition Underlying Brassinosteroid‑Mediated Lignification of Switchgrass Suspension Cells (open access)

Dynamic Changes in Transcriptome and Cell Wall Composition Underlying Brassinosteroid‑Mediated Lignification of Switchgrass Suspension Cells

This article provides an overview of the dynamic compositional changes during brassinosteroid-induced cell wall remodeling, and identifies candidate genes for future plant genetic engineering to overcome cell wall recalcitrance.
Date: August 8, 2017
Creator: Rao, Xiaolan; Shen, Hui; Pattathil, Sivakumar; Hahn, Michael G.; Gelineo-Albersheim, Ivana; Mohnen, Debra et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altered embryonic development in northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) induced by pre-incubation oscillatory thermal stresses mimicking global warming predictions (open access)

Altered embryonic development in northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) induced by pre-incubation oscillatory thermal stresses mimicking global warming predictions

This article describes the exposure of freshly laid bobwhite quail eggs to one of five thermal regimes during a 12 day pre-incubation period.
Date: March 31, 2017
Creator: Reyna, Kelly S. & Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retention and Efficacy of Citizen Scientist Volunteers of the Texas Quail Index (open access)

Retention and Efficacy of Citizen Scientist Volunteers of the Texas Quail Index

This paper discusses volunteer retention and efficacy for the Texas Quail Index.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Reyna, Kelly S. & Rollins, Dale
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Abraham Model Correlations for Triethylene Glycol Solvent Derived from Infinite Dilution Activity Coefficient, Partition Coefficient and Solubility Data Measured at 298.15 K (open access)

Abraham Model Correlations for Triethylene Glycol Solvent Derived from Infinite Dilution Activity Coefficient, Partition Coefficient and Solubility Data Measured at 298.15 K

This article describes the use of a gas chromatographic headspace analysis method to experimentally determine gas-to-liquid partition coefficients and infinite dilution activity coefficients for 29 liquid organic solutes dissolved in triethylene glycol at 298.15 K.
Date: November 9, 2017
Creator: Sedov, Igor A.; Magsumov, Timur I.; Hart, Erin; Ramirez, Ashley M.; Cheeran, Sarah; Barrera, Maribel et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Editorial: Advances in Plant-Hemipteran Interactions (open access)

Editorial: Advances in Plant-Hemipteran Interactions

This editorial discusses sixteen manuscripts which address the physiology and molecular biology of plant-hemipteran interactions at different levels.
Date: September 21, 2017
Creator: Shah, Jyoti & Walling, Linda
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Role of novel histone modifications in cancer (open access)

Role of novel histone modifications in cancer

This article briefly discusses post-translational modifications such as neddylation, sumoylation, glycosylation, phosphorylation, polyADP ribosylation, ubiquitination, and transcriptional regulation.
Date: October 11, 2017
Creator: Shanmugam, Muthu K.; Arfuso, Frank; Arumugam, Surendar; Chinnathambi, Arunachalam; Jinsong, Bian; Warrier, Sudha R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploratory X-Ray Monitoring of Luminous Radio-quiet Quasars at High Redshift: No Evidence for Evolution in X-Ray Variability (open access)

Exploratory X-Ray Monitoring of Luminous Radio-quiet Quasars at High Redshift: No Evidence for Evolution in X-Ray Variability

This article reports on the second installment of an X-ray monitoring project of seven luminous radio-quiet quasars (RQQs).
Date: October 10, 2017
Creator: Shemmer, Ohad; Brandt, William Nielsen; Paolillo, Maurizio; Kaspi, Shai; Vignali, Christian; Lira, Paulina et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantum walks of two interacting particles on percolation graphs (open access)

Quantum walks of two interacting particles on percolation graphs

This paper addresses the dynamics of two indistinguishable interacting particles moving on a dynamical percolation graph.
Date: October 6, 2017
Creator: Siloi, Ilaria; Benedetti, Claudia; Piccinini, Enrico; Paris, Matteo G. A. & Bordone, Paolo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of UGT716A1 as a Multi-substrate UDP:Flavonoid Glucosyltransferase Gene in Ginkgo biloba (open access)

Characterization of UGT716A1 as a Multi-substrate UDP:Flavonoid Glucosyltransferase Gene in Ginkgo biloba

This article discusses the generation of a transcriptomic dataset of G. biloba leaf tissue by high-throughput RNA sequencing to better understand flavonoid glucosylation in G. biloba.
Date: December 7, 2017
Creator: Su, Xiaojia; Shen, Guoan; Di, Shaokang; Dixon, R. A. & Pang, Yongzhen
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Xenopus and the art of oxygen maintenance (open access)

Xenopus and the art of oxygen maintenance

This column article discusses the impact of Robert Boutillier and Graham Shelton's 1986 Journal of Experimental Biology paper "Gas exchange, storage and transport in voluntarily diving Xenopus laevis."
Date: November 15, 2017
Creator: Tattersall, Glenn & Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Short-chain fatty acid receptors inhibit invasive phenotypes in breast cancer cells (open access)

Short-chain fatty acid receptors inhibit invasive phenotypes in breast cancer cells

This article evaluates the effects of enforced overexpression of two known G protein-coupled receptors in two phenotypically distinct breast cancer cell lines.
Date: June 1, 2017
Creator: Thirunavukkarasan, Madhumathi; Wang, Chao; Rao, Angad; Hind, Tatsuma; Teo, Yuan Ru; Siddiquee, Abrar Al-Mahmood et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Reactions of Ground-State Sulfur Atoms With Hydrogen and Deuterium

This article studies the gas-phase kinetics of S(³P) atoms with H₂ and D₂ via the laser flash photolysis--resonance fluorescence technique.
Date: June 20, 2017
Creator: Thompson, Kristopher; Gao, Yide; Marshall, Paul; Wang, Han; Zhou, Linsen; Li, Yongle et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inadequate thermal refuge constrains landscape habitability for a grassland bird species (open access)

Inadequate thermal refuge constrains landscape habitability for a grassland bird species

This article uses the northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) as a model species for studying how microclimates serve as refuge against severe weather conditions.
Date: April 11, 2017
Creator: Tomecek, John M.; Pierce, Brian L.; Reyna, Kelly S. & Peterson, Markus J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computational investigation of O₂ diffusion through an intra-molecular tunnel in AlkB; influence of polarization on O₂ transport (open access)

Computational investigation of O₂ diffusion through an intra-molecular tunnel in AlkB; influence of polarization on O₂ transport

This article discusses the use of computational simulations to investigate possible migration pathways inside AlkB for O₂ molecules.
Date: June 3, 2017
Creator: Torabifard, Hedieh & Cisneros, Gerardo Andrés
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library