A Highly Contiguous and Annotated Genome Assembly of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) (open access)

A Highly Contiguous and Annotated Genome Assembly of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus)

Article asserts that the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus; LEPC) is an iconic North American prairie grouse, renowned for ornate and spectacular breeding season displays, a species that has been declining in population across much of its historical range, with corresponding precipitous declines in contemporary population abundance, largely due to climatic and anthropogenic factors. The authors describe an annotated reference genome that was generated from a LEPC sample collected from the southern DPS.
Date: March 17, 2023
Creator: Black, Andrew N.; Bondo, Kristin J.; Mularo, Andrew; Hernandez, Alvaro; Yu, Yachi; Stein, Carleigh M. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seeing plants as never before (open access)

Seeing plants as never before

Authors of the article assert that imaging has long supported our ability to understand the inner life of plants, their development, and response to a dynamic environment. The purpose of this review was to provide the scientific community with an overview of current imaging methods, which rely variously on either nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), mass spectrometry (MS) or infrared (IR) spectroscopy, and to present some examples of their application in order to illustrate their utility.
Date: March 9, 2023
Creator: Borisjuk, Ljudmilla; Horn, Patrick J.; Chapman, Kent Dean; Jakob, Peter M.; Gündel, Andre & Rolletschek, Hardy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correction: Vu et al. Specific Changes in Arabidopsis thaliana Rosette Lipids during Freezing Can Be Associated with Freezing Tolerance. Metabolites 2022, 12, 385 (open access)

Correction: Vu et al. Specific Changes in Arabidopsis thaliana Rosette Lipids during Freezing Can Be Associated with Freezing Tolerance. Metabolites 2022, 12, 385

Article is a correction to an error in the original publication. The enzymatic step catalyzed by oxophytodienoic acid reductase 3 was misstated. A correction has been made to Section 2. Results and Discussion, Subsection 2.13. Lipids of Plants with Mutations in Lipid-Related Genes, Paragraph 1.
Date: March 30, 2023
Creator: Vu, Hieu Sy; Shiva, Sunitha; Samarakoon, Thilani; Li, Maoyin; Sarowar, Sujon; Roth, Mary R. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correction: A modified aeroponic system for growing small-seeded legumes and other plants to study root systems (open access)

Correction: A modified aeroponic system for growing small-seeded legumes and other plants to study root systems

This is a correction to an article. The affiliation of the first author was published incorrectly.
Date: March 25, 2023
Creator: Cai, Jingya; Veerappan, Vijaykumar; Arildsen, Kate; Sullivan, Catrina; Piehowicz, Megan; Frugoli, Julia et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measurement of the Intramolecular Hydrogen-Shift Rate Coefficient for the CH3SCH2OO Radical Between 314 and 433 K (open access)

Measurement of the Intramolecular Hydrogen-Shift Rate Coefficient for the CH3SCH2OO Radical Between 314 and 433 K

Article describes how the intramolecular hydrogen-shift rate coefficient of the CH3SCH2O2 (methylthiomethylperoxy, MSP) radical, a product formed in the oxidation of dimethyl sulfide (DMS), was measured using a pulsed laser photolysis flow tube reactor coupled to a high-resolution time-of-flight chemical ionization mass spectrometer that measured the formation of the DMS degradation end product HOOCH2SCHO. Measurements performed over the temperature range of 314–433 K yielded a hydrogen-shift rate coefficient of k1(T) = (2.39 ± 0.7) × 109 exp(−(7278 ± 99)/T) s–1 Arrhenius expression and a value extrapolated to 298 K of 0.06 s–1.
Date: March 2, 2023
Creator: Assaf, Emmanuel; Finewax, Zachary; Marshall, Paul; Veres, Patrick R.; Neuman, Andrew & Burkholder, James B. (James Bart), 1954-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Probing High-Temperature Amine Chemistry: Is the Reaction NH3 + NH2 ⇄ N2H3 + H2 Important? (open access)

Probing High-Temperature Amine Chemistry: Is the Reaction NH3 + NH2 ⇄ N2H3 + H2 Important?

Article describes how the reaction NH3 + NH2 ⇄ N2H3 + H2 (R1) has been identified as a key step to explain experimental results for pyrolysis and oxidation of ammonia. In the present work, the reaction was studied by ab initio theory and by reinterpretation of experimental data.
Date: March 14, 2023
Creator: Marshall, Paul & Glarborg, Peter
System: The UNT Digital Library