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Metabolic Engineering for Stress Tolerance: Installing Osmoprotectant Synthesis Pathways by Rathinasabapathi, Bala

“…Abiotic environmental stresses such as drought, salinity and low temperature are major limitations for plant growth and crop productivity. Certain plants,…”
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Differential gene expression of rice in response to silicon and rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae by Brunings, A.M, Datnoff, L.E, Ma, J.F, Mitani, N, Nagamura, Y, Rathinasabapathi, B, Kirst, M

“…Silicon increases the resistance of rice (Oryza sativa) to the rice blast pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae. This study described the relationship between silicon…”
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Effects of heavy metals on growth and arsenic accumulation in the arsenic hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata L by Fayiga, Abioye O., Ma, Lena Q., Cao, Xinde, Rathinasabapathi, B.

“…The effects of Cd, Ni, Pb, and Zn on arsenic accumulation by the arsenic hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata were investigated in a greenhouse study. P. vittata…”
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Effects of nutrients on arsenic accumulation by arsenic hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata L by Fayiga, A.O., Ma, L.Q., Rathinasabapathi, B.

“…This research investigated the effects of various nutrients on arsenic (As) removal by arsenic hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata L. in a Hoagland nutrient…”
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Characterization of phytase from three ferns with differing arsenic tolerance by Tu, S., Ma, L., Rathinasabapathi, B.

“…Phytase is involved in many physiological activities in plants including phosphorus metabolism and stress response. The effects of arsenic on phytase…”
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Effects of Arsenic Species and Concentrations on Arsenic Accumulation by Different Fern Species in a Hydroponic System by Fayiga, A. O., Ma, L. Q., Santos, Jorge, Rathinasabapathi, B., Stamps, B., Littell, R. C.

“…Two hydroponic experiments were conducted to evaluate factors affecting plant arsenic (As) hyperaccumulation. In the first experiment, two As hyperaccumulators…”
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Choline monooxygenase, an unusual iron-sulfur enzyme catalyzing the first step of glycine betaine synthesis in plants: prosthetic group characterization and cDNA cloning by Rathinasabapathi, B. (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.), Burnet, M, Russell, B.L, Gage, D.A, Liao, P.C, Nyes, G.J, Scott, P, Golbeck, J.H, Hanson, A.D

“…Plants synthesize the osmoprotectant glycine betaine via the route choline leads to betaine aldehyde leads to glycine hetaine. In spinach, the first step is…”
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Osmoprotective compounds in the Plumbaginaceae: a natural experiment in metabolic engineering of stress tolerance by Hanson, A.D, Rathinasabapathi, B, Rivoal, J, Burnet, M, Dillon, M.O, Gage, D.A

“…In common with other zwitterionic quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs), glycine betaine acts as an osmoprotectant in plants, bacteria, and animals, with its…”
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β-Alanine Betaine Synthesis in the Plumbaginaceae. Purification and Characterization of a Trifunctional, S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine-Dependent N-Methyltransferase from Limonium latifolium Leaves by Rathinasabapathi, Bala, Walid M. Fouad, Celia A. Sigua

“…β-Alanine (β-Ala) betaine is an osmoprotective compound accumulated by most members of the highly stress-tolerant family Plumbaginaceae. Its potential role in…”
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Aggressivity: Cucumber vs. Amaranth by Berry, A.D, Stall, W.M, Rathinasabapathi, B, MacDonald, G.E, Charudattan, R

“…A replacement series study was conducted to describe the aggressivity between cucumber, smooth pigweed, and livid amaranth. Cucumber was three times more…”
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Smooth pigweed (Amaranthus hybridus L.) and livid amaranth (Amaranthus lividus) interference with cucumber (Cucumis sativus) by Berry, A.D, Stall, W.M, Rathinasabapathi, B, Macdonald, G.E, Charudattan, R

“…Field studies were conducted to determine the effect of season-long interference of smooth pigweed or livid amaranth on the shoot dry weight and fruit yield of…”
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Metabolic engineering of glycine betaine synthesis: plant betaine aldehyde dehydrogenases lacking typical transit peptides are targeted to tobacco chloroplasts where they confer betaine aldehyde resistance by Rathinasabapathi, B. (Montreal Univ., Quebec (Canada). Inst. de Recherche en Biologie Vegetale), McCue, K.F, Gage, D.A, Hanson, A.D

“…Certain higher plants synthesize and accumulate glycine betaine, a compound with osmoprotectant properties. Biosynthesis of glycine betaine proceeds via the…”
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Metabolic adaptations to arsenic-induced oxidative stress in Pteris vittata L and Pteris ensiformis L by Singh, Nandita, Ma, Lena Q., Srivastava, Mrittunjai, Rathinasabapathi, Bala

“…This study examined the metabolic adaptations of Pteris vittata L, an arsenic hyperaccumulator, under arsenic stress as compared to Pteris ensiformis, a…”
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Survival of Salmonella Montevideo on tomato leaves and mature green tomatoes by Rathinasabapathi, Bala

“…Survival of Salmonella Montevideo on tomato leaf and mature green tomatoes was examined. When spiked on the surfaces of excised leaves from greenhouse tomato…”
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Transgenically Expressed Betaine Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Efficiently Catalyzes Oxidation of Dimethylsulfoniopropionaldehyde and [omega]-Aminoaldehydes by Trossat, C., Rathinasabapathi, B., Hanson, A. D.

“…Tobacco (Nicotianum tabacum L.) plants engineered to express a sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase (BADH) cDNA acquired not only BADH…”
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Herbicide resistance in Datura innoxia. Kinetic characterization of acetolactate synthase from wild-type and sulfonylurea-resistant cell variants by Rathinasabapathi, B. (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada), King, J

“…Acetolactate synthase (ALS, EC 4.1.3.18), the first enzyme in the biosynthesis of branched-chain amino acids, was isolated from wild-type and…”
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Low sugar and osmotic requirements for shoot regeneration from leaf pieces of Solanum melongena L by Mukherjee, S.K. (Indian Agricultural Research Inst., New Delhi (India). Div. of Genetics), Rathinasabapathi, B, Gupta, N

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An ultrastructural investigation on the polyethylene glycol-induced adhesion of tobacco nuclei and uptake of micronuclei by soybean protoplasts by RATHINASABAPATHI, B, KING, J

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Expression of Bacterial L-aspartate-α-decarboxylase in Tobacco Increases β-Alanine and Pantothenate Levels and Improves Thermotolerance by Fouad, W.M, Rathinasabapathi, B

“…L- Aspartate-alpha-decarboxylase catalyzes the decarboxylation of L -aspartate to generate Beta-alanine and carbon dioxide. This is an unusual…”
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Propionate, a source of β-alanine, is an inhibitor of β-alanine methylation in Limonium latifolium, Plumbaginaceae by Rathinasabapathi, Bala

“…The origin of β-alanine was investigated in Limonium latifolium (Plumbaginaceae), an angiosperm species that methylates β-alanine to β-alanine betaine, an…”
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