Search Results - "Fugate, Karen K."

Sugar beet root susceptibility to storage rots and downregulation of plant defense genes increases with time in storage by Kandel, Shyam L., Eide, John D., Firrincieli, Andrea, Finger, Fernando L., Lafta, Abbas M., Fugate, Karen K.

“…Storage rots are a significant cause of postharvest losses for the sugar beet crop, however, intrinsic physiological and genetic factors that determine the…”
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Mechanism of Sugarbeet Seed Germination Enhanced by Hydrogen Peroxide by Chu, Chenggen, Poore, Rachael Claire, Bolton, Melvin D, Fugate, Karen K

“…Seed germination is a critical first stage of plant development but can be arrested by factors including dormancy and environmental conditions. Strategies to…”
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Natural elicitors enhanced suberin polyphenolic accumulation in wounded potato tuber tissues by Dogramaci, Munevver, Sarkar, Dipayan, Finger, Fernando L, Shetty, Kalidas, Fugate, Karen K

“…Unintended wounding or bruising during harvest or postharvest handling leads to significant tuber loss and imposes economic burden to potato industry…”
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Genetic drift, historic migration, and limited gene flow contributing to the subpopulation divergence in wild sea beet (Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima (L.) Arcang) by Tehseen, Muhammad Massub, Wyatt, Nathan A, Bolton, Melvin D, Fugate, Karen K, Preister, Lisa S, Yang, Shengming, Ramachandran, Vanitharani, Li, Xuehui, Chu, Chenggen

“…Cultivated beet (Beta vulgaris L. ssp. vulgaris) originated from sea beet (B. vulgaris ssp. maritima (L.) Arcang), a wild beet species widely distributed along…”
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Using Nectar-Related Traits to Enhance Crop-Pollinator Interactions by Prasifka, Jarrad R, Mallinger, Rachel E, Portlas, Zoe M, Hulke, Brent S, Fugate, Karen K, Paradis, Travis, Hampton, Marshall E, Carter, Clay J

“…Floral nectar and other reward facilitate crop pollination, and in so doing, increase the amount and breadth of food available for humans. Though abundance and…”
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Severe Preharvest Drought Elevates Respiration and Storage Rot in Postharvest Sugarbeet Roots by Lafta, Abbas M., Eide, John D., Khan, Mohamed F. R., Finger, Fernando L., Fugate, Karen K.

“…ABSTRACT Sugarbeets are largely produced without irrigation, making drought stress inevitable when rainfall is insufficient. Whether drought stress impacts…”
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Transcriptomic and metabolomic changes in postharvest sugarbeet roots reveal widespread metabolic changes in storage and identify genes potentially responsible for respiratory sucrose loss by Fugate, Karen K, Eide, John D, Lafta, Abbas M, Tehseen, Muhammad Massub, Chu, Chenggen, Khan, Mohamed F R, Finger, Fernando L

“…Endogenous metabolism is primarily responsible for losses in sucrose content and processing quality in postharvest sugarbeet roots. The genes responsible for…”
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Wounding rapidly alters transcription factor expression, hormonal signaling, and phenolic compound metabolism in harvested sugarbeet roots by Fugate, Karen K, Finger, Fernando L, Lafta, Abbas M, Dogramaci, Munevver, Khan, Mohamed F R

“…Injuries sustained by sugarbeet ( L.) roots during harvest and postharvest operations seriously reduce the yield of white sugar produced from stored roots…”
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Selenium-Ethylene Interplay in Postharvest Life of Cut Flowers by Costa, Lucas C, Luz, Luana M, Nascimento, Vitor L, Araujo, Fernanda F, Santos, Mirelle N S, França, Christiane de F M, Silva, Tania P, Fugate, Karen K, Finger, Fernando L

“…Selenium (Se) is considered a beneficial element in higher plants when provided at low concentrations. Recently, studies have unveiled the interactions between…”
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Continental-scale insights into the sugarbeet diffusion juice microbiomes by Bill, Malick, Eide, John D, Fugate, Karen K, Bolton, Melvin D, Kandel, Hari P, Kandel, Shyam L

“…Bacterial contamination of raw diffusion juice poses unique challenges during the sugar extraction process. This study profiled bacterial communities by using…”
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Methyl jasmonate effects on sugarbeet root responses to postharvest dehydration by Finger, Fernando L, Eide, John D, Lafta, Abbas M, Khan, Mohamed F R, Dogramaci, Munevver, Fugate, Karen K

“…Sugarbeet ( L.) roots are stored under conditions that cause roots to dehydrate, which increases postharvest losses. Although exogenous jasmonate applications…”
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Glycolysis Is Dynamic and Relates Closely to Respiration Rate in Stored Sugarbeet Roots by Megguer, Clarice A, Fugate, Karen K, Lafta, Abbas M, Ferrareze, Jocleita P, Deckard, Edward L, Campbell, Larry G, Lulai, Edward C, Finger, Fernando L

“…Although respiration is the principal cause of the loss of sucrose in postharvest sugarbeet ( L.), the internal mechanisms that control root respiration rate…”
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Evidence for contemporary plant mitoviruses by Nibert, Max L., Vong, Minh, Fugate, Karen K., Debat, Humberto J.

“…Mitoviruses have small RNA(+) genomes, replicate in mitochondria, and have been shown to infect only fungi to date. For this report, sequences that appear to…”
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Potential of publicly available Beta vulgaris germplasm for sustainable sugarbeet improvement indicated by combining analysis of genetic diversity and historic resistance evaluation by Tehseen, Muhammad Massub, Poore, Rachael Claire, Fugate, Karen K., Bolton, Melvin D., Ramachandran, Vanitharani, Wyatt, Nathan A., Li, Xuehui, Chu, Chenggen

“…Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L. ssp. vulgaris Doell.) was originally selected from white fodder beet in the 1780s and was then specifically bred for sucrose…”
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Sugar Beet Root Storage Properties Are Unaffected by Cercospora Leaf Spot by Fugate, Karen K, Khan, Mohamad F R, Eide, John D, Hakk, Peter C, Lafta, Abbas M, Qi, Aiming

“…Cercospora leaf spot (CLS; causal agent Sacc.) is endemic in many sugar beet production regions due to the widespread distribution of and the inability of…”
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Colocalization of sucrose synthase expression and sucrose storage in the sugarbeet taproot indicates a potential role for sucrose catabolism in sucrose accumulation by Fugate, Karen K., Eide, John D., Martins, Daniel N., Grusak, Michael A., Deckard, Edward L., Finger, Fernando L.

“…Sucrose metabolism is believed to have a central role in promoting sink strength and sucrose storage in the sugarbeet taproot. How sucrose accumulation is…”
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Genotype and environment effects on sunflower nectar and their relationships to crop pollination by Prasifka, Jarrad, Ferguson, Beth, Fugate, Karen K.

“…Whether caused by genotype (G) or environment (E), floral trait variation has consequences for plants and their pollinators. Cultivated sunflower is a model…”
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Methyl jasmonate alleviates drought stress in young sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) plants by Fugate, Karen K., Lafta, Abbas M., Eide, John D., Li, Guolong, Lulai, Edward C., Olson, Linda L., Deckard, Edward L., Khan, Mohamed F. R., Finger, Fernando L.

“…Drought is the major cause of yield and economic loss for the sugar beet crop. Mechanisms to reduce drought stress, however, are lacking as sugar beets are…”
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Genetic diversity is enhanced in Wild × Cultivated hybrids of sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) despite multiple selection cycles for cultivated traits by Fugate, Karen K., Campbell, Larry G., Covarrubias-Pazaran, Giovanny, Rodriguez-Bonilla, Lorraine, Zalapa, Juan

“…Genetic diversity is enhanced by introgressing wild germplasm into breeding lines and populations. Such introgression, however, commonly introduces wild traits…”
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Biological differences that distinguish the 2 major stages of wound healing in potato tubers by Lulai, Edward C., Campbell, Larry G., Fugate, Karen K., McCue, Kent F.

“…The two stages of potato tuber wound healing, closing layer formation (CLF) and wound periderm formation (WPF), have critical biological differences. The first…”
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