Acquisition of Liquid Scintillation Analyzers

该提案要求国家科学院的支持。 基金会生物仪器计划购买一个 液体闪烁分光计 七名教师及其 本建议书指定研究团体为主要使用者。 主要用户的研究项目包括：调查 （a）视觉传导和适应的机制，（B） 高度不饱和脂肪酸在生物膜中作用 结构和功能;（c）藻类/细菌的分子基础 生物膜中的相互作用，（d）昆虫凝集素的结构 及其在免疫防御机制中的作用，（e） 聚集信息素的鉴定和生物合成 果蝇;（f）构建和利用限制性内切酶 基于片段长度多态性的三种大麦连锁图谱 （g）发展和评价基因的分子方法， 苜蓿和小扁豆遗传多样性的评价;（h） 植物中的植酸途径和抑制子-突变子 玉米中的转座因子;和（i）玉米中的转座因子的代谢 植物毒素由植物病原体的杂草植物。

This proposal requests support from the National Science Foundation Biological Instrumentation Program to purchase a liquid scintillation spectrometer. Seven faculty and their research groups are designated in this proposal as major users. The research projects of the major users include: investigation of (a) the mechanism of visual transduction and adaptation, (b) the role of highly unsaturated fatty acids in biological membrane structure and function; (c) molecular basis of algal/bacterial interactions in biofilms, (d) the structure of insect agglutinin and its role in immune-defense mechanisms, (e) the characterization and biosynthesis of aggregation pheromones in Drosophila; (f) construction and utilization of a restriction fragment length polymorphism based linkage map of three barley genes, (g) development and evaluation of molecular methods for the evaluation of genetic diversity in alfalfa and lentils; (h) phytic acid pathways in plants and suppressor-mutator transposable elements in maize; and (i) the metabolism of phytotoxins by plants pathogens of weedy plants.