Biological Sciences, School of: Recent submissions
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Buffering and trophic mismatch in spring-feeding forest caterpillars
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-03-17)Across temperate environments, climate warming is leading to a general advancement of spring phenology in a wide range of ecologically and taxonomically diverse species. For taxa that depend on interactions with other ... -
Cellulose as a component of plant cell walls and as a food additive in confectioner
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-02-15)A healthy diet is rich in dietary fibre (largely indigestible polysaccharides, most of which derive from plant cell walls). Cellulose is one of the main components of plant cell walls and a major contributor to human dietary ... -
Use of AI for the development of two new early drug discovery techniques: deep and transfer learning for LogP prediction and dimensionality reduction for sequence-based virtual screening
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-02-10)Prediction of small molecule physiochemical properties and their biological targets is extremely valuable in the effort to reduce costs and attrition rates within drug discovery. In-silico techniques are now routinely ... -
Some aspects of infection of potato tubers by Fusarium caeruleum (Lib.) Sacc.
(University of Edinburgh, 1967)The susceptibility of potato tubers to infection, by P, caeruleum was assessed using a spore suspension and a standard wound inoculation method. Susceptibility of the Subsequent crop was decreased by delaying planting and ... -
Influences of metallic ions on soil bacteria
(University of Edinburgh, 1967)The work that has been done on the trace element requirements of micro-organisms and influences of metallic ions on the occurrence of soil micro-organisms is limited» Most workers in the field of mineral nutrition of soil ... -
Studies on the effects of temperature on the growth of plant tissue culture
(University of Edinburgh, 1966)#1. Tissue explants from Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L.) have been used in this study. It has been shown that these explants can be grown successfully on a nutrient agar medium containing inorganic salts, ... -
Some aspects of skin spot (Oospora pustulans) infection of the potato crop
(University of Edinburgh, 1964)The potato industry in Scotland is based on the annual production of healthy seed, the bulk of which is sent to English markets. Within the last few years higher costs of production, marketing and transport have increased ... -
Conditions affecting the growth of bacteria on vegetable foods
(University of Edinburgh, 1962)The present study was concerned with the effect of water activity (equilibrium relative humidity) of grass juice and the release of juice from harvested leaves on the growth of bacteria. Cultures of Aerobacter and. ... -
Fertilizer placement in the production of farm crops
(University of Edinburgh, 1962)Placement is by no means a new idea. Some writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries stated that manures should be applied near to the seed or close beside established plants if they were fully to be effective. ... -
Effect of salt (sodium chloride) on the growth, yield and composition of sugar beet
(University of Edinburgh, 1962)Previous literature stated that sodium chloride applications increased the yield of sugar per acre when applied to the sugar beet crop, particularly where the soil potassium level was low and where potassium was not ... -
Use of the potato and its by-products and other waste materials in feeding farm animals in Central Europe
(University of Edinburgh, 1961)Central Europe was for centuries considered to be mainly an agricultural area and traditionally exported various foodstuffs to the most industrious western countries. As the result of the second World War, considerable ... -
Developing novel optogenetic tools in Caenorhabditis elegans
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-02-14)Proteins are biopolymers constructed from 20 canonical amino acids which, while limited in number, work together to carry out an extensive variety of functions essential to life. Genetic code expansion allows for the ... -
Transcriptomic profiling of glia in Huntington's disease
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-02-10)Huntington’s disease (HD) is a severely debilitating, autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease with a fatal outcome. There is accumulating evidence of a prominent role of glia in the pathology of HD, and we investigated ... -
Evolutionary ecology of parasite strategies for within-host survival
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-02-08)Plasmodium parasites, the causal agents of malaria, engage in complex interactions with their hosts, however despite decades of research much of their life cycle remains unexplored. A deeper understanding of the strategies ... -
Computational comparative genomics in cyanobacteria
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-02-07)Cyanobacteria are an ancient clade of photosynthetic prokaryotes, varying in morphology, physiology, biochemistry and habitat. They evolve by typical prokaryotic mechanisms including horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Some ... -
Molecular dissection of the spindle assembly checkpoint signalling in Cryptococcus neoformans
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-02-02)Cryptococcosis is a severe fungal infection caused by an opportunistic fungal pathogen, Cryptococcus neoformans which has been medically significant for more than half of the last century. This yeast displays noticeable ... -
Chemical biotechnology strategies for adipic acid synthesis
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-25)Adipic acid is one of the most widely-used and valuable platform chemicals. However, industrial adipic acid synthesis is environmentally damaging, as it produces greenhouse gas and relies on non-renewable petrochemical ... -
Understanding the physiological basis of post-flowering nitrogen (N) dynamics in spring barley to improve nitrogen use efficiency (NUE)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-24)Identifying ways to improve nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in cereal production is a major international research priority. It has been estimated that globally only around 40% of N from fertilizer is recovered in the grain ... -
Thioredoxins enable selective and reversible redox signalling in plants
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-20)Accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in eukaryotic cells is associated with several biological processes, including environmental stress responses. ROS levels are usually maintained at low levels by an extensive ... -
Investigating the role SUMO plays in heterochromatin formation in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe
(The University of Edinburgh, 2023-01-17)In eukaryotic cells, DNA is organized by histones and associated proteins into a complex that is called chromatin. The fundamental subunit of chromatin is the nucleosome that is composed of eight histone proteins and a ...
