Browsing Texas Tech University by Author "Xiang, Zhixin"

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Identification and characterization of digalacturonic acid uptake mutants in Erwinia chrysanthemi

Xiang, Zhixin (Texas Tech University, 1996-05)

Erwinia chrysanthemi produces several plant cell wall degrading enzymes to cause soft-rot disease in plants. Digalacturonic acid (dGA) is one of the major products released due to the action of pectolytic enzymes on ...
Transformation of cotton plants through an alternate DNA delivery approach

Xiang, Zhixin (Texas Tech University, 2003-12)

The objective of this research was to introduce chitinase and â-l,3-glucanase genes into cotton to improve resistance to fungal pathogens through the pollen tube pathway-mediated transformation (PTP). To confirm the success ...