Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans was created for educators and other practitioners who want to use interactive activities, assignments, and strategies in their classrooms or workshops. Experts in the field of Asian American Studies will find powerful, innovative teaching activities that clearly convey established and new ideas. The activities in this book have been used effectively in workshops for staff and practitioners in student services programs, community-based organizations, teacher training programs, social service agencies, and diversity training.
This ambitious work provides a unique statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. Arguing that specific places around the world are sites for the defense and enhancement of daily life in the context of rapidly expanding global technologies and investment options, the contributors reach for a vision of social development that supports sustainable, humane cultures. Bringing together the local and the global, this work provides the first sustained linkage of ethnic groups in diaspora to macrocosmic processes of world capital that inevitably reach down to mediate even the most local experiences. The essays, ranging in their discussion of place from Los Angeles and New York to New Zealand and Indonesia, offer both reasoned argument and authoritiative information on how local experience interacts with larger processes of global capital and the diasporic phenomenon. The book will be an invaluable resource and launching point for scholars and students in ethnic and identity studies and will interest all readers exploring the production of place and identification.
Plant specialized metabolites are compounds produced in specific lineages whose synthesis most likely arose as adaptations to specific ecological conditions. One group of these compounds are acylsugars, which are produced in the glandular trichomes of many species in the Solanaceae family. Research indicates that differences in acylsugar core and acyl chains alter the effects of these compounds on insect deterrence or mortality. We can use natural chemical diversity to study what effects different acylsugars have on insects using in vitro techniques, but in planta methods are preferred. Identification of biosynthetic genes allows us to genetic engineer these pathways into plants to more precisely study the impact of these compounds in planta. This study is comprised of two projects characterizing biosynthetic pathways present in Solanum pennellii and Solanum quitoense. We are interested in how acylglucoses are made in S. pennellii-the first project focused on identification of an acylsucrose fructofuranosidase in S. pennellii, a wild relative of cultivated tomato. This S. pennellii glycosyl hydrolase converts acylsucroses to acylglucoses, the predominant acylsugar in several accessions of this species. In vitro and in planta data show this enzyme accepts S. pennellii P-type acylsucroses as substrates, but not F-type acylsucroses from cultivated tomato. Whether the plant produces P- or F-type acylsucroses is determined by different enzymatic activities of acyltransferases that alter acylation pattern in cultivated tomato and S. pennellii-representing a three gene epistatic interaction between those genes and the acylsucrose fructofuranosidase. Acylinositols represent a novel type of acylsugar produced in the Solanum genus, however, the biosynthetic pathway has not been studied. My second project involved characterization of the biosynthesis of these myo-inositol containing acylsugars in Solanum quitoense. VIGS analysis suggested this BAHD acyltransferase acetylates triacylinositols and in vitro analysis confirmed that hypothesis. Further VIGS analysis and in vitro assays identified an inositol acyltransferase that possessed characteristics matching other acylsugar biosynthetic enzymes, but this BAHD acyltransferase acylated myo-inositol at an aberrant acylation position. Alternative hypotheses were offered to reconcile the in vitro and in vivo results. Together, these two projects represent first steps towards understanding how the array of acylsugars in Solanaceae species are produced.
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