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A comparative transcriptomic study of an allotetraploid and its diploid progenitors illustrates the unique advantages and challenges of RNA-seq in plant species by Ilut, Daniel C., Coate, Jeremy E., Luciano, Amelia K., Owens, Thomas G., May, Gregory D., Farmer, Andrew, Doyle, Jeff J.

“…Premise of the study: RNA-seq analysis of plant transcriptomes poses unique challenges due to the highly duplicated nature of plant genomes. We address these…”
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Trehalose Accumulation in Rice Plants Confers High Tolerance Levels to Different Abiotic Stresses by Garg, Ajay K., Kim, Ju-Kon, Owens, Thomas G., Ranwala, Anil P., Choi, Yang Do, Kochian, Leon V., Wu, Ray J.

“…Trehalose is a nonreducing disaccharide of glucose that functions as a compatible solute in the stabilization of biological structures under abiotic stress in…”
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Unity and Disunity in Biology by Niklas, Karl J, Owens, Thomas G, Wayne, Randy O

“…Biology is extremely diverse in its methodologies, concepts, theories, and goals. It is also developing rapidly and revealing deeper complexities at almost…”
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Absence of carbonic anhydrase in chloroplasts affects C3 plant development but not photosynthesis by Hines, Kevin M., Chaudhari, Vishalsingh, Edgeworth, Kristen N., Owens, Thomas G., Hanson, Maureen R.

“…The enzyme carbonic anhydrase (CA), which catalyzes the interconversion of bicarbonate with carbon dioxide (CO₂) and water, has been hypothesized to play a…”
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Excited-State Dynamics in Photosystem II: Insights from the X-ray Crystal Structure by Vasil'ev, S, Orth, P, Zouni, A, Owens, T G, Bruce, D

“…The heart of oxygenic photosynthesis is photosystem II (PSII), a multisubunit protein complex that uses solar energy to drive the splitting of water and…”
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Absence of carbonic anhydrase in chloroplasts affects C 3 plant development but not photosynthesis by Hines, Kevin M, Chaudhari, Vishalsingh, Edgeworth, Kristen N, Owens, Thomas G, Hanson, Maureen R

“…The enzyme carbonic anhydrase (CA), which catalyzes the interconversion of bicarbonate with carbon dioxide (CO ) and water, has been hypothesized to play a…”
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Student Performance along Axes of Scenario Novelty and Complexity in Introductory Biology: Lessons from a Unique Factorial Approach to Assessment by Deane-Coe, Kirsten K, Sarvary, Mark A, Owens, Thomas G

“…In an undergraduate introductory biology laboratory course, we used a summative assessment to directly test the learning objective that students will be able…”
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Limitations of the pulse-modulated technique for measuring the fluorescence characteristics of algae by Ting, C.S, Owens, T.G

“…Precise measurements of the minimal fluorescence yield (Fo) and maximal fluorescence yield (Fm) of a dark-adapted sample are prerequisites for the…”
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Spectral and photochemical properties of borohydride-treated D1-D2-cytochrome b-559 complex of photosystem II by Shkuropatov, Anatoli Ya, Khatypov, Ravil A, Volshchukova, Tatyana S, Shkuropatova, Valentina A, Owens, Thomas G, Shuvalov, Vladimir A

“…The D1-D2-cytochrome b-559 reaction center complex of photosystem II with an altered pigment composition was prepared from the original complex by treatment…”
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Expression of complementary RNA from chloroplast transgenes affects editing efficiency of transgene and endogenous chloroplast transcripts by Hegeman, Carla E., Halter, Christine P., Owens, Thomas G., Hanson, Maureen R.

“…The expression of angiosperm chloroplast genes is modified by C-to-U RNA editing. The mechanism for recognition of the ∼30 C targets of editing is not…”
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Manipulation of root hair development and sorgoleone production in sorghum seedlings by XIAOHAN YANG, OWENS, Thomas G, SCHEFFLER, Brian E, WESTON, Leslie A

“…Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) roots exude a potent bioherbicide sorgoleone. Previous work indicates that sorgoleone is produced in living root hairs. We have…”
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Gas Exchange and Co-regulation of Photochemical and Nonphotochemical Quenching in Bean during Chilling at Ambient and Elevated Carbon Dioxide by Melkonian, Jeffrey, Owens, Thomas G, Wolfe, David W

“…The effects of elevated (700 micromol mol(-1)) and ambient (350 micromol mol(-1)) CO(2) on gas exchange parameters and chlorophyll fluorescence were measured…”
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Effects of elevated carbon dioxide on gas exchange and photochemical and nonphotochemical quenching at low temperature in tobacco plants varying in Rubisco activity by Melkonian, J, Wolfe, D.W, Owens, T.G

“…Elevated (700 micromol mol-1) and ambient (350 micromol mol-1) CO2 effects on total ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) activity,…”
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Detailed Balance in Förster−Dexter Excitation Transfer and Its Application to Photosynthesis by Laible, Philip D, Knox, Robert S, Owens, Thomas G

“…Under the conditions assumed both by Förster in his resonance-transfer theory and by Kennard and Stepanov in their theory of a universal relation between…”
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Effects of growth irradiance levels on the ratio of reaction centers in two species of marine phytoplankton [Skeletonema costatum, Dunaliella tertiolecta, Algae] by Falkowski, P.G, Owens, T.G, Ley, A.C, Mauzerall, D.C

“…Cells of two species of single-celled marine algae, the diatom Skeletonema costatum (Greve), Cleve, and the chlorophyte Dunaliella tertiolecta Butcher, were…”
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Photosynthesis at High Temperature in Tuber-Bearing Solanum Species: A Comparison between Accessions of Contrasting Heat Tolerance by Matthew P. Reynolds, Elmer E. Ewing, Owens, Thomas G.

“…Differences in the photosynthetic performance between pairs of heat tolerant (HT) and heat sensitive (HS) accessions of tuber-bearing Solanum species were…”
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Physiological and morphological modifications of Plantago major (Plantaginaceae) in response to light conditions by Niklas, K.J, Owens, T.G

“…Physiological and morphological differences between Plantago major L. (Plantaginaceae) growing in full sunlight and shaded conditions were examined…”
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A technique for estimating phytoplankton division rates by using a DNA‐binding fluorescent dye1 by Falkowski, Paul G., Owens, Thomas G.

“…Phytoplankton division rates were estimated by following time‐course changes in DNA using a DNA‐specific fluorescent dye. The method is simple, inexpensive,…”
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Light-Harvesting Function in the Diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum: II. Distribution of Excitation Energy between the Photosystems by Owens, Thomas G.

“…The distribution of excitation energy between photosystems I and II (PSI and PSII) was investigated in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Bohlin)…”
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Hybrid density functional theory study of vanadium monoxide by Mackrodt, William C., Middlemiss, Derek S., Owens, Thomas G.

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