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Field study to investigate consequences of the genetic modification resulting in the fire blight resistant cisgenic apple line C44.4.146
(2021)Apple is the third main produced fruit crop globally, with a production of around 87 million tons in 2019. Apple production relies on a few, mainly disease-susceptible, cultivars, which require the recurrent use of plant protection products during the growing season. One of the most devastating diseases in apple is fire blight, a bacterial disease caused by Erwinia amylovora. The management of fire blight produced estimated annual costs ...Doctoral Thesis -
Strategies and mechanisms of Acanthamoeba predation
(2021)Acanthamoeba is a genus of amoebae that commonly exists in the nature or human-related environments. To adapt to changing conditions in living environments, Acanthamoeba employs two typical life stages: a vegetative trophozoite stage for taking up nutrients and multiply, and a dormant cyst stage to overcome unfavourable conditions. Due to the outstanding predatory capability of Acanthamoeba trophozoites on bacteria, fungi, or smaller ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Psychological contracts, career orientations, and age-diverse knowledge exchange: The influence of the broader individual and social context of human resource management on employee motivation, human capital, and well-being
(2021)Human resource management (HRM) research generally focuses on the effects of HRM practices or systems on individual and organizational outcomes with employee motivation, human capital, opportunity to participate, and well-being as essential intermediary components. However, these components can also be affected by the broader individual and social context in which HRM operates—represented by the psychological contract, career orientations, ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Localized two-level systems in rare-earth fluorides
(2021)Two-level systems (TLSs) are paradigmatic for quantum mechanics. The TLS description is simple, exactly solvable, and yet tremendously powerful in representing a wealth of phenomena with high precision. Being also the archetype of a quantum bit, the TLS faces a dichotomy between controlled interaction, enabling quantum operations, and uncontrolled interaction which leads to decoherence, i.e. the loss of quantum information. Hence, protection ...Doctoral Thesis -
Structural characterisation of protein-RNA complexes using UV cross-linking and mass spectrometry
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