• Wild rice harbors more root endophytic fungi than cultivated rice in the F1 offspring after crossbreeding 

  Tian, Lei; Wang, Enze; Lin, Xiaolong; Ji, Li; Chang, Jingjing; Chen, Hongping; Wang, Jilin; Chen, Dazhou; Tran, Lam-Son Phan (TTU); Tian, Chunjie (2021)

  Background: Rice, which serves as a staple food for more than half of the world’s population, is grown worldwide. The hybridization of wild and cultivated rice has enabled the incorporation of resistance to varying ...

• Low nitrogen availability inhibits the phosphorus starvation response in maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) 

  Torres-Rodríguez, J. Vladimir; Salazar-Vidal, M. Nancy; Chávez Montes, Ricardo A. (TTU); Massange-Sánchez, Julio A.; Gillmor, C. Stewart; Sawers, Ruairidh J. H. (2021)

  Background: Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are macronutrients essential for crop growth and productivity. In cultivated fields, N and P levels are rarely sufficient, contributing to the gap between realized and potential ...

• Altered patterns of fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation and regional homogeneity in abstinent methamphetamine-dependent users 

  Xie, An; Wu, Qiuxia (TTU); Yang, Winson Fu Zun (TTU); Qi, Chang; Liao, Yanhui; Wang, Xuyi; Hao, Wei; Tang, Yi-Yuan (TTU); Liu, Jianbin; Liu, Tieqiao; Tang, Jinsong (2021)

  Methamphetamine (MA) could induce functional and structural brain alterations in dependent subjects. However, few studies have investigated resting-state activity in methamphetamine-dependent subjects (MADs). We aimed to ...

• A Blind Test of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis 

  Holliday, Vance; Surovell, Todd; Johnson, Eileen (TTU) (2016)

  The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (YDIH) states that North America was devastated by some sort of extraterrestrial event ~12,800 calendar years before present. Two fundamental questions persist in the debate over the ...

• Topographic Thresholds and Soil Preservation along the Southern High Plains Eastern Escarpment, Northwest Texas, USA 

  Conley, Travis (TTU); Hurst, Stance (TTU); Johnson, Eileen (TTU) (2020)

  The eastern escarpment of the Southern High Plains (USA) is today a semi-arid erosional landscape delineated by canyon breaks and topographic relief. A series of buried soils were identified, described, and sampled at 19 ...

• Late Quaternary Stratigraphy and Geochronology of the Spring Creek Drainage along the Southern High Plains Eastern Escarpment, Northwest Texas 

  Johnson, Eileen (TTU); Hurst, Stance (TTU); Moretti, John A. (TTU) (2021)

  The eastern escarpment breaks of the Southern High Plains of Texas are both a geomorphic and ecotonal transition zone from the high plains surface to the Rolling Plains below. The geoarchaeological record on the Southern ...

• Aerial Photogrammetry in the American West: Documenting the Construction of Cattle Water Tanks by Texas Cowboys 

  Hurst, Stance (TTU); Johnson, Eileen (TTU); Cunningham, Doug (TTU); Fernandez-Cespedes, Glenn (TTU) (2021)

  Aerial photogrammetry is increasingly being used to discover, document, and interpret the cultural heritage of landscapes. Information on the constructed cultural heritage left behind by the first cattle ranchers in the ...

• Bioinspired and biomimetic membranes for water purification and chemical separation: A review 

  Abaie, Elham (TTU); Xu, Limeimei (TTU); Shen, Yue-xiao (TTU) (2021)

  Bioinspired and biomimetic membranes that contain biological transport channels or attain their structural designs from biological systems have been through a remarkable development over the last two decades. They take ...

• Seed-to-seed early-season cold resiliency in sorghum 

  Emendack, Yves; Sanchez, Jacobo; Hayes, Chad; Nesbitt, Matthew; Laza, Haydee (TTU); Burke, John (2021)

  Early planted sorghum usually experiences cooler day/night temperatures, which may result in delayed growth, floral initiation, and infertile pollen, limiting productivity in high altitudes and temperate regions. Genetic ...

• Genetic variation among 481 diverse soybean accessions, inferred from genomic re-sequencing 

  Valliyodan, Babu; Brown, Anne V.; Wang, Juexin; Patil, Gunvant (TTU); Liu, Yang; Otyama, Paul I.; Nelson, Rex T.; Vuong, Tri; Song, Qijian; Musket, Theresa A.; Wagner, Ruth; Marri, Pradeep; Reddy, Sam; Sessions, Allen; Wu, Xiaolei; Grant, David; Bayer, Philipp; Roorkiwal, Manish; Varshney, Rajeev K.; Liu, Xin; Edwards, David; Xu, Dong; Joshi, Trupti; Cannon, Steven B.; Nguyen, Henry T. (2021)

  We report characteristics of soybean genetic diversity and structure from the resequencing of 481 diverse soybean accessions, comprising 52 wild (Glycine soja) selections and 429 cultivated (Glycine max) varieties (landraces ...

• Mechanical zonation of rock properties and the development of fluid migration pathways: implications for enhanced geothermal systems in sedimentary-hosted geothermal reservoirs 

  Kolawole, Oladoyin (TTU); Ispas, Ion (TTU); Kolawole, Folarin; Germay, Christophe; McLennan, John D. (2021)

  Oil and gas operations in sedimentary basins have revealed the occurrence of significant temperature anomalies at depth, raising the possibility of major geothermal resource potential in the sedimentary sequences. The ...

• Students’ implicit epistemologies when working at the intersection of engineering and the arts 

  Cruz, Joshua (TTU); Bruhis, Noa; Kellam, Nadia; Jayasuriya, Suren (2021)

  Background: This paper explores the epistemologies and discourse of undergraduate students at the transdisciplinary intersection of engineering and the arts. Our research questions focus on the kinds of knowledge that ...

• Supercritical carbon dioxide decellularization of plant material to generate 3D biocompatible scaffolds 

  Harris, Ashlee F.; Lacombe, Jerome; Liyanage, Sumedha (TTU); Han, Margaret Y.; Wallace, Emily; Karsunky, Sophia; Abidi, Noureddine (TTU) (2021)

  The use of plant-based biomaterials for tissue engineering has recently generated interest as plant decellularization produces biocompatible scaffolds which can be repopulated with human cells. The predominant approach for ...

• Direct Dynamics Simulations of the Thermal Fragmentation of a Protonated Peptide Containing Arginine 

  Gu, Meng; Zhang, Jiaxu; Hase, William L.; Yang, Li (2020)

  Arginine has significant effects on fragmentation patterns of the protonated peptide due to its high basicity guanidine tail. In this article, thermal dissociation of the singly protonated glycine-arginine dipeptide (GR-H+) ...

• Size-Controlled Capacity and Isocapacity Concentration in Freundlich Adsorption 

  Na, Chongzheng (2020)

  The Freundlich isotherm is a classic model widely used to analyze the equilibrium of solution-phase adsorption. Further analysis of the adsorption mechanism has, however, been hindered by the empirical nature of the ...

• De novo transcriptome analysis of white teak (Gmelina arborea Roxb) wood reveals critical genes involved in xylem development and secondary metabolism 

  Yaya Lancheros, Mary Luz; Rai, Krishan Mohan (TTU); Balasubramanian, Vimal Kumar (TTU); Dampanaboina, Lavanya (TTU); Mendu, Vengopal (TTU); Terán, Wilson (2021)

  Background: Gmelina arborea Roxb is a fast-growing tree species of commercial importance for tropical countries due to multiple industrial uses of its wood. Wood is primarily composed of thick secondary cell walls of ...

• Biochemical and structural characterization of analogs of MRE11 breast cancer-associated mutant F237C 

  Rahman, Samiur (TTU); Beikzadeh, Mahtab (TTU); Latham, Michael P. (TTU) (2021)

  The MRE11–RAD50–NBS1 (MRN) protein complex plays a vital role in DNA double strand break sensing, signaling, and repair. Mutation in any component of this complex may lead to disease as disrupting DNA double strand break ...

• Data-driven identification of subtypes of intimate partner violence 

  Hacıaliefendioğlu, Ahmet M.; Yılmaz, Serhan; Smith, Douglas (TTU); Whiting, Jason; Koyutürk, Mehmet; Karakurt, Günnur (TTU) (2021)

  Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a complex problem with multiple layers of heterogeneity. We took a data-driven approach to characterize this heterogeneity. We integrated data from different studies, representing 640 ...

• Integrated population modelling reveals potential drivers of demography from partially aligned data: a case study of snowy plover declines under human stressors 

  Zhao, Qing; Heath-Acre, Kristen (TTU); Collins, Daniel; Conway, Warren C. (TTU) (2021)

  Knowledge of demography is essential for understanding wildlife population dynamics and developing appropriate conservation plans. However, population survey and demographic data (e.g., capture-recapture) are not always ...

• Optimizing the SSD Burst Buffer by Traffic Detection 

  Shi, Xuanhua; Liu, Wei; He, Ligang; Jin, Hai; Li, Ming; Chen, Yong (2020)

  Currently, HPC storage systems still use hard disk drive (HDD) as their dominant storage device. Solid state drive (SSD) is widely deployed as the buffer to HDDs. Burst buffer has also been proposed to manage the SSD ...

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