Journal of Plant Biochemistry & Physiology
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Department of Plant Science, South Dakota State University (SDSU), USA

Biography

Dr. Fedora Sutton is a Professor and completed her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Science Visions Research Institute, USA. Her study majors on Protein Purification Techniques, Signal Transduction, Transcription Factors, Epigenetics, Algae, wheat, etc. She had published 25 articles in different journals which got good responses and citations of 284. She had worked on a project “Stem Tuberization in Manihot esculenta” which looks good and the readers have given a great response to this project.

Publications

• Research Article   
  Inverse Oriented Stem Cuttings Generate Tuberous Stems in Cassava Manihot esculenta Crantz; An Alternative Sink Site
  Author(s): Judy Rouse-Miller*, Valerie Bowrin, Grace Sirju-Charran and Fedora Sutton
  
  Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is normally propagated by stem cuttings planted in a slanted, vertical or horizontal orientation. Axillary buds produce aerial shoot and adventitious roots are produced at the base (proximal end) of the cutting, some of which develop into tuberous roots. However, when cuttings are planted in an inverse, slanted or inverse straight orientation, the buried bases of the shoots which arise from underground buds swell. In this study, we determined that the stem swelling accumulates and store starch as do the tuberous root tubers. This phenomenon designated as inversion-induced stem tuberization, first detailed here, provides a system which could be used to study the roles of phytohormones and light... View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2090-7214.13.1.117

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