Plants

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A 13-kilodalton maize mitochondrial protein in E. coli confers sensitivity to Bipolaris maydis toxin. 
  • A broad framework to organize and compare ecological invasion impacts. 
  • A common switch used by plants and animals. 
  • A continuously monitored spectrophotometric assay of glycosidases with nitrophenyl glycosides. 
  • A highway for war and peace: the secretory pathway in plant-microbe interactions. 
  • A perspective for understanding the modes of juvenile hormone action as a lipid signaling system. 
  • A phylogenetic estimation of trophic transition networks for ascomycetous fungi: are lichens cradles of symbiotrophic fungal diversification? 
  • A simple method for computing exact probabilities of mutation numbers. 
  • A structural model of the alternative oxidase of plant mitochondria. 
  • Achieving the convention on biological diversity's goals for plant conservation. 
  • Adaptation to metals in widespread and endemic plants. 
  • Adhesion of fungi. 
  • Advanced imaging techniques for the study of plant growth and development. 
  • Allelic diversity and gene genealogy at the self-incompatibility locus in the Solanaceae. 
  • Amino acid sequence of the nucleotide binding region of chloroplast coupling factor 1. 
  • Amino acid sequence of the signal peptide of apoVLDL-II, a major apoprotein in avian very low density lipoproteins. 
  • Anthropogenic modification of New England salt marsh landscapes. 
  • Antitumor agents. 190. Absolute stereochemistry of the cytotoxic germacranolides, tomenphantins A and B, from Elephantopus tomentosus. 
  • Apical-basal polarity: why plant cells don't stand on their heads. 
  • Are plant populations seed limited? A critique and meta-analysis of seed addition experiments. 
  • Axis formation and polarity in plants. 
  • Barriers, pathways and processes for uptake, translocation and accumulation of nanomaterials in plants--Critical review. 
  • Battle for survival: plants and their allies and enemies. 
  • Binding stoichiometry and structural mapping of the epsilon polypeptide of chloroplast coupling factor 1. 
  • Biodiversity hotspots house most undiscovered plant species. 
  • Biodiversity. Extinction by numbers. 
  • Biogeographic consequences of nutrient enrichment for plant-herbivore interactions in coastal wetlands. 
  • Biological diversity. Species: would any of them be missed? 
  • Biotic interactions and plant invasions. 
  • Bottom-up and top-down human impacts interact to affect a protected coastal Chilean marsh. 
  • Carbon monoxide binding by simple heme proteins under photodissociating conditions. 
  • Cell type-specific expression profiling in plants via cell sorting of protoplasts from fluorescent reporter lines. 
  • Cell type-specific transcriptional profiling: implications for metabolite profiling. 
  • Cell-Cycle Regulators and Cell Death in Immunity. 
  • Characterization of sulfhydryl groups on chloroplast coupling factor 1 exposed by heat activation. 
  • Characterization of the cysJIH regions of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli B. DNA sequences of cysI and cysH and a model for the siroheme-Fe4S4 active center of sulfite reductase hemoprotein based on amino acid homology with spinach nitrite reductase. 
  • Characterization of three-subunit chloroplast coupling factor. 
  • Chemical cross-linking studies of chloroplast coupling factor 1. 
  • Chemical modification and fluorescence studies of chloroplast coupling factor. 
  • Chloroplast coupling factor 1: dependence of rotational correlation time on polypeptide composition. 
  • Chromosomal sex-determining regions in animals, plants and fungi. 
  • Co-evolution and plant resistance to natural enemies. 
  • Coevolution of self-fertilization and inbreeding depression. I. Mutation-selection balance at one and two loci. 
  • Coevolution of self-fertilization and inbreeding depression. II. Symmetric overdominance in viability. 
  • Combinatorial and synergistic properties of CaMV 35S enhancer subdomains. 
  • Completing the cycle: maternal effects as the missing link in plant life histories. 
  • Complex-trait analysis in plants. 
  • Connecting differential responses of native and invasive riparian plants to climate change and environmental alteration. 
  • Consumer control of salt marshes driven by human disturbance. 
  • Contributions of North American endophytes to the phylogeny, ecology, and taxonomy of Xylariaceae (Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota). 
  • Copper-chelatin: isolation from various eucaryotic sources. 
  • Copper: an essential metal in biology. 
  • Correlations between physical and chemical defences in plants: tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat? 
  • Degradation and resilience in Louisiana salt marshes after the BP-Deepwater Horizon oil spill. 
  • Detection of hydrogen atom adduct of spin-trap DEPMPO. The relevance for studies of biological systems. 
  • Determination of molecular mass of the aroid alternative oxidase by radiation-inactivation analysis. 
  • Dicentric chromosomes: unique models to study centromere function and inactivation. 
  • Dicranin, an antimicrobial and 15-lipoxygenase inhibitor from the moss Dicranum scoparium. 
  • Differential induction of 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase genes in Arabidopsis thaliana by wounding and pathogenic attack. 
  • Digging the New York City Skyline: soil fungal communities in green roofs and city parks. 
  • Direct and interactive effects of enemies and mutualists on plant performance: a meta-analysis. 
  • Discovery of a novel superfamily of type III polyketide synthases in Aspergillus oryzae. 
  • Divergence in How Genetic Pathways Respond to Environments. 
  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome. 
  • Diversity of ageing across the tree of life. 
  • Do thick leaves avoid thermal damage in critically low wind speeds? 
  • Effects of a locus affecting floral pigmentation in Ipomoea purpurea on female fitness components. 
  • Effects of an insecticidal dip containing d-limonene in the cat. 
  • Effects of dibromothymoquinone on mung bean mitochondrial electron transfer and membrane fluidity. 
  • Effects of silver nanoparticle exposure on germination and early growth of eleven wetland plants. 
  • Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity. 
  • Emerging contaminant or an old toxin in disguise? Silver nanoparticle impacts on ecosystems. 
  • Emissions of nitric oxide from 79 plant species in response to simulated nitrogen deposition. 
  • Endoreplication and polyploidy: insights into development and disease. 
  • Environmental conditions influence the plant functional diversity effect on potential denitrification. 
  • Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction. 
  • Estrogen induction of ovalbumin mRNA: evidence for transcription control. 
  • Evidence for siroheme-Fe4S4 interaction in spinach ferredoxin-sulfite reductase. 
  • Evidence from individual inference for high-dimensional coexistence: long-term experiments on recruitment response. 
  • Evolution of plant resistance at the molecular level: ecological context of species interactions. 
  • Evolution under tight linkage to mating type. 
  • Expression of genes involved in symbiotic carbon and nitrogen transport in Pinus taeda mycorrhizal roots exposed to CO2 enrichment and nitrogen fertilization. 
  • Expression of spinach glycolate oxidase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: purification and characterization. 
  • Extinction rates. Modern extinctions in the kilo-death range. 
  • Fibrillar systems in cell motility. 
  • Fingerprinting polysaccharides with single-molecule atomic force microscopy. 
  • Fluorescence studies on modes of cytochalasin B and phallotoxin action on cytoplasmic streaming in Chara. 
  • Fluorescence-activated cell sorting in plant developmental biology. 
  • From genotype to phenotype: systems biology meets natural variation. 
  • From lab to field, new approaches to phenotyping root system architecture. 
  • Function of tightly bound nucleotides on membrane-bound chloroplast coupling factor. 
  • Functional traits of the understory plant community of a pyrogenic longleaf pine forest across environmental gradients. 
  • Further characterization of nucleotide binding sites on chloroplast coupling factor one. 
  • Genealogical structure among alleles regulating self-incompatibility in natural populations of flowering plants. 
  • Genealogy-dependent variation in viability among self-incompatibility genotypes. 
  • Genes and networks regulating root anatomy and architecture. 
  • Genetic analysis of coevolution between plants and their natural enemies. 
  • Genome wide analyses reveal little evidence for adaptive evolution in many plant species. 
  • Genomics and Transcriptomics Analyses of the Oil-Accumulating Basidiomycete Yeast Trichosporon oleaginosus: Insights into Substrate Utilization and Alternative Evolutionary Trajectories of Fungal Mating Systems. 
  • Gibberellin signaling: biosynthesis, catabolism, and response pathways. 
  • Green fluorescent protein as a tag for molecular motor proteins. 
  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy in higher eukaryotes. 
  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. 
  • High-throughput RNA isolation technologies. New tools for high-resolution gene expression profiling in plant systems. 
  • High-throughput phenotyping of multicellular organisms: finding the link between genotype and phenotype. 
  • Horsetails and ferns are a monophyletic group and the closest living relatives to seed plants. 
  • Host and geographic structure of endophytic and endolichenic fungi at a continental scale. 
  • Host-microbe interactions: bacteria. 
  • How do plants achieve immunity? Defence without specialized immune cells. 
  • How wide is a stream? Spatial extent of the potential "stream signature" in terrestrial food webs using meta-analysis. 
  • Identification of the iron-sulfur center of spinach ferredoxin-nitrite reductase as a tetranuclear center, and preliminary EPR studies of mechanism. 
  • Immunological studies of RNA polymerase II using antibodies to subunits of Drosophila and wheat germ enzyme. 
  • Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity. 
  • Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis. 
  • Inbreeding load, average dominance and the mutation rate for mildly deleterious alleles in Mimulus guttatus. 
  • Individual variation in inbreeding depression: the roles of inbreeding history and mutation. 
  • Induction of Arabidopsis defense genes by virulent and avirulent Pseudomonas syringae strains and by a cloned avirulence gene. 
  • Inferential ecosystem models, from network data to prediction. 
  • Information processing without brains--the power of intercellular regulators in plants. 
  • Interaction of nucleotides with chloroplast coupling factor 1. 
  • Interaction type influences ecological network structure more than local abiotic conditions: evidence from endophytic and endolichenic fungi at a continental scale. 
  • Interactions of NO with hemoglobin: from microbes to man. 
  • Investigation of quercetin binding sites on chloroplast coupling factor 1. 
  • Iodination of irrigation water as a method of supplying iodine to a severely iodine-deficient population in Xinjiang, China. 
  • Is RNA interference involved in intrinsic antiviral immunity in mammals? 
  • Is the shoot a root with a view? 
  • It's Not Easy Being Blue: Are There Olfactory and Visual Trade-Offs in Plant Signalling? 
  • Joint effects of nutrient addition and enemy exclusion on exotic plant success. 
  • Lessons from flower colour evolution on targets of selection. 
  • Lipid specificity of beta-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase activation. 
  • Lipoxygenase isozymes in higher plants: biochemical properties and physiological role. 
  • Local frequency dependence and global coexistence. 
  • Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality. 
  • Long-term transformation and fate of manufactured ag nanoparticles in a simulated large scale freshwater emergent wetland. 
  • Low concentrations of silver nanoparticles in biosolids cause adverse ecosystem responses under realistic field scenario. 
  • Lymphocyte responses to ragweed antigens from different sources. 
  • Magnetic resonance microscopy of changes in water content in stems of transpiring plants. 
  • Magnetization of the sulfite and nitrite complexes of oxidized sulfite and nitrite reductases: EPR silent spin S = 1/2 states. 
  • Modelling photosynthesis in highly dynamic environments: the case of sunflecks. 
  • Molecular and biochemical characterization of two plant inositol polyphosphate 6-/3-/5-kinases. 
  • Molecular cloning of ovomucoid gene sequences from partially purified ovomucoid messenger RNA. 
  • Molecular cloning of the gene sequences of a major apoprotein in avian very low density lipoproteins. 
  • Molecular mechanism of gibberellin signaling in plants. 
  • Molecular modeling of phytochrome using constitutive C-phycocyanin from Fremyella diplosiphon as a putative structural template. 
  • Mutations in the maize mitochondrial T-urf13 gene eliminate sensitivity to a fungal pathotoxin. 
  • New Phytologist on plant evolution. 
  • Niche construction through phenological plasticity: life history dynamics and ecological consequences. 
  • Nitric oxide in plant immunity. 
  • Non-linear interactions between consumers and flow determine the probability of plant community dominance on Maine rocky shores. 
  • Non-neutral vegetation dynamics. 
  • Nonhomogeneous model of sequence evolution indicates independent origins of primary endosymbionts within the enterobacteriales (gamma-Proteobacteria). 
  • Not just another hole in the wall: understanding intercellular protein trafficking. 
  • Nucleotide interactions with the dicyclohexylcarbodiimide-sensitive adenosinetriphosphatase from spinach chloroplasts. 
  • Nucleotide sequence preference at rat liver and wheat germ type 1 DNA topoisomerase breakage sites in duplex SV40 DNA. 
  • Omics meet networks - using systems approaches to infer regulatory networks in plants. 
  • On the evolution of genetic incompatibility systems. V. Origin of sporophytic self-incompatibility in response to overdominance in viability. 
  • On the evolution of genetic incompatibility systems. VI. A three-locus modifier model for the origin of gametophytic self-incompatibility. 
  • Optimal semelparity. 
  • Optimizing the statistical estimation of the parameters of the Farquhar-von Caemmerer-Berry model of photosynthesis. 
  • Partial purification of the cyanide-resistant alternative oxidase of skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) mitochondria. 
  • Partitioning interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange between climatic variability and functional change. 
  • Perception of the plant immune signal salicylic acid. 
  • Philip Benfey. 
  • Photochemical reactions of dibromothymoquinone. 
  • Phylogenetic analyses of eurotiomycetous endophytes reveal their close affinities to Chaetothyriales, Eurotiales, and a new order - Phaeomoniellales. 
  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. 
  • Phylogenetic relationships of the liverworts (Hepaticae), a basal embryophyte lineage, inferred from nucleotide sequence data of the chloroplast gene rbcL. 
  • Phylogenetic relationships, host affinity, and geographic structure of boreal and arctic endophytes from three major plant lineages. 
  • Physical and chemical characterization of purified ovalbumin messenger RNA. 
  • Phytochrome control of maize leaf inorganic pyrophosphatase and adenylate kinase. 
  • Plant antitumor agents. VI. The isolation and structure of taxol, a novel antileukemic and antitumor agent from Taxus brevifolia. 
  • Plant evolutionary developmental biology. Introduction to a special issue. 
  • Plant evolutionary ecology. 
  • Plant evolutionary genomics. 
  • Plant hormone jasmonate prioritizes defense over growth by interfering with gibberellin signaling cascade. 
  • Plant metabolism: where are all those pathways leading us? 
  • Plant nitrogen concentration and isotopic composition in residential lawns across seven US cities. 
  • Plant population dynamics, pollinator foraging, and the selection of self-fertilization. 
  • Plant speciation. 
  • Plant species' origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands. 
  • Plant stem cell niches: standing the test of time. 
  • Plant trait diversity buffers variability in denitrification potential over changes in season and soil conditions. 
  • Plant-centered biosystems in space environments: technological concepts for developing a plant genetic assessment and control system. 
  • Plant-insect interactions. 
  • Plant-soil feedbacks: a comparative study on the relative importance of soil feedbacks in the greenhouse versus the field. 
  • Plants as reef fish: fitting the functional form of seedling recruitment. 
  • Population genetics, pleiotropy, and the preferential fixation of mutations during adaptive evolution. 
  • Post-translational regulation of plant immunity. 
  • Posttranslational Modifications of NPR1: A Single Protein Playing Multiple Roles in Plant Immunity and Physiology. 
  • Predicting biodiversity change: outside the climate envelope, beyond the species-area curve. 
  • Preface to the special issue: ecological and evolutionary genomics of populations in nature. 
  • Preparation, biological activity and endogenous occurrence of N6-benzyladenosines. 
  • Primate species richness is determined by plant productivity: implications for conservation. 
  • Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. 
  • Programmable ligand detection system in plants through a synthetic signal transduction pathway. 
  • Purification and properties of sulfite oxidase from chicken liver. Presence of molybdenum in sulfite oxidase from diverse sources. 
  • Purification of an almond emulsin fucosidase on Cibacron blue-sepharose and demonstration of its activity toward fucose-containing glycoproteins. 
  • Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes. 
  • RNAi function, diversity, and loss in the fungal kingdom. 
  • Response of two pea hybrids to CO2 enrichment: a test of the energy overflow hypothesis for alternative respiration. 
  • Role of aquaporins in determining transpiration and photosynthesis in water-stressed plants: crop water-use efficiency, growth and yield. 
  • Role of fructose in the adaptation of plants to cold-induced oxidative stress. 
  • Rotation of nucleotide sites is not required for the enzymatic activity of chloroplast coupling factor 1. 
  • Rotational dynamics of chloroplast ATP synthase in phospholipid vesicles. 
  • S-allele diversity in a natural population of Physalis crassifolia (Solanaceae) (ground cherry) assessed by RT-PCR. 
  • S-allele sequence diversity in natural populations of Solanum carolinense (Horsenettle). 
  • SA, JA, ethylene, and disease resistance in plants. 
  • Secondary foundation species enhance biodiversity. 
  • Selective trade-offs maintain alleles underpinning complex trait variation in plants. 
  • Self-fertilization and the escape from pollen limitation in variable pollination environments. 
  • Selfing, Local Mate Competition, and Reinforcement. 
  • Sensing the environment: lessons from fungi. 
  • Sensitivity of the population growth rate to demographic variability within and between phases of the disturbance cycle. 
  • Shootward and rootward: peak terminology for plant polarity. 
  • Signals that regulate stem cell activity during plant development. 
  • Similarities in the evolution of plants and cars. 
  • Siroheme: a new prosthetic group participating in six-electron reduction reactions catalyzed by both sulfite and nitrite reductases. 
  • Site-specific mutations alter in vitro factor binding and change promoter expression pattern in transgenic plants. 
  • Soil water balance and ecosystem response to climate change. 
  • Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilisation. 
  • Spatial relationships between specific sites on reconstituted chloroplast proton adenosinetriphosphatase and the phospholipid vesicle surface. 
  • Spatiotemporal signalling in plant development. 
  • Spinach siroheme enzymes: Isolation and characterization of ferredoxin-sulfite reductase and comparison of properties with ferredoxin-nitrite reductase. 
  • Stability of plant immune-receptor resistance proteins is controlled by SKP1-CULLIN1-F-box (SCF)-mediated protein degradation. 
  • Statistical genetics of an annual plant, Impatiens capensis. I. Genetic basis of quantitative variation. 
  • Statistical genetics of an annual plant, Impatiens capensis. II. Natural selection. 
  • Stimulation of synthesis of ribonucleic acid in sub-apical sections of Avena coleoptile by indolyl-3-acetic acid. 
  • Strategies of a Bornean tropical rainforest water use as a function of rainfall regime: isohydric or anisohydric? 
  • Structural features required for inhibition of cyanide-insensitive electron transfer by propyl gallate. 
  • Structural investigation of reconstituted chloroplast ATPase with fluorescence measurements. 
  • Structural map of the dicyclohexylcarbodiimide site of chloroplast coupling factor determined by resonance energy transfer. 
  • Structural mapping of chloroplast coupling factor. 
  • Structure of oxidative- and photo-phosphorylation coupling factor complexes. 
  • Structure-function relationships of the alternative oxidase of plant mitochondria: a model of the active site. 
  • Studies on photosystem I. Characteristics of "310 material" isolated from spinach chloroplasts. 
  • Studies on photosystem I. I. Relationship of plastocyanin, cytochrome f and P700. 
  • Studies on photosystem I. II. Involvement of ferredoxin in cyclic electron flow. 
  • Suppression of a P450 hydroxylase gene in plant trichome glands enhances natural-product-based aphid resistance. 
  • Systemic acquired resistance: turning local infection into global defense. 
  • Systems approaches to identifying gene regulatory networks in plants. 
  • The Chado Natural Diversity module: a new generic database schema for large-scale phenotyping and genotyping data. 
  • The Fate of the World's Plants. 
  • The actin gene from Cryptococcus neoformans: structure and phylogenetic analysis. 
  • The active site of the cyanide-resistant oxidase from plant mitochondria contains a binuclear iron center. 
  • The carbon bonus of organic nitrogen enhances nitrogen use efficiency of plants. 
  • The constructal law of organization in nature: tree-shaped flows and body size. 
  • The contribution of male-sterility mutations to inbreeding depression in Mimulus guttatus. 
  • The development of plant roots: new approaches to underground problems. 
  • The evolution of seed dormancy: environmental cues, evolutionary hubs, and diversification of the seed plants. 
  • The evolution of tolerance to deer herbivory: modifications caused by the abundance of insect herbivores. 
  • The evolutionary dynamics of self-incompatibility systems. 
  • The family of glycogen phosphorylases: structure and function. 
  • The global stoichiometry of litter nitrogen mineralization. 
  • The glucosinolate-myrosinase system in an ecological and evolutionary context. 
  • The human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus can complete its sexual cycle during a pathogenic association with plants. 
  • The molecular mechanism and evolution of the GA-GID1-DELLA signaling module in plants. 
  • The nature and regulation of the alternative oxidase of plant mitochondria. 
  • The nature of the axial ligands of spinach cytochrome. 
  • The plant amino acid mimosine may inhibit initiation at origins of replication in Chinese hamster cells. 
  • The potential physiological implications of polygalacturonic acid-mediated production of superoxide. 
  • The product of the alternative oxidase is still H2O. 
  • The regulation and nature of the cyanide-resistant alternative oxidase of plant mitochondria. 
  • The role of RNAi and microRNAs in animal virus replication and antiviral immunity. 
  • The use of diaminobenzidine for spectrophotometric and acrylamide gel detection of sulfite oxidase and its applicability to hydrogen peroxide-generating enzymes. 
  • Tissue storage and primer selection influence pyrosequencing-based inferences of diversity and community composition of endolichenic and endophytic fungi. 
  • Tissue-specific expression from CaMV 35S enhancer subdomains in early stages of plant development. 
  • To boldly go where no plant has yet been found. 
  • Trait space of rare plants in a fire-dependent ecosystem. 
  • Transcriptional networks controlling plant development. 
  • Transcriptional switches direct plant organ formation and patterning. 
  • Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. 
  • Tropical rainforests: diversity begets diversity. 
  • Unraveling the dynamic transcriptome. 
  • Variation in Plant Response to Herbivory Underscored by Functional Traits. 
  • Vegetation pattern shift as a result of rising atmospheric CO2 in arid ecosystems. 
  • Why species tell more about traits than traits about species: predictive analysis. 
  • [Extracellular Ca2+ signaling: first messenger in animals and plants]. 
  • pH stability of individual folates during critical sample preparation steps in prevision of the analysis of plant folates. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Doyle, Martin, Professor in the Environmental Sciences and Policy Division, Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Hunt, Dana E., Associate Professor of Microbial Ecology, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Swaminathan, Madhav, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic