Acquisition of Liquid Scintillation Analyzers

本提案请求国家科学基金会生物仪器计划支持购买一台液体闪烁光谱仪。七个学院和他们的研究小组在这个提案中被指定为主要用户。主要用户的研究项目包括：(a)视觉转导和适应机制的研究；(b)高不饱和脂肪酸在生物膜结构和功能中的作用；(c)生物膜中藻类/细菌相互作用的分子基础，(d)昆虫凝集素的结构及其在免疫防御机制中的作用，(e)果蝇聚集信息素的表征和生物合成；(f)基于限制性片段长度多态性的大麦基因连锁图谱的构建与利用；(g)紫花苜蓿和扁豆遗传多样性分子评价方法的建立与评价；(h)植物中的植酸途径和玉米中的抑制突变子转座因子；(1)杂草植物病原菌对植物毒素的代谢。

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.