Recent Undergraduate Research Topics

(Ralph L. Obendorf Laboratory)

 

"Purification of galactopinitol substrates"
"Purification of fagopyritol substrates"
"Soybean and buckwheat seed development; soybean seed cultures"
"Substrate specificity (fagopyritols, raffinose, stachyose) and characterization of different alpha-galactosidase enzymes in buckwheat seeds"
"Galactopinitol biosynthesis in desiccating immature soybean seeds"
"Buckwheat seed fagopyritol synthase enzyme assay"
"Health related compounds in seeds"
"Analysis of sugars in barley seedlings before and after desiccation"
"Alpha-galactosidase enzymes and genes in seeds and plants"
"Fagopyritol synthase and related enzymes and genes"
"Fagopyritols and their biosynthesis"
"Preparation of fagopyritols for analytical standards in the nutriceutical industry"
"Purification of fagopyritols for diabetes testing"
"Preparation of substrates for enzyme studies"
"Translocation of cyclitols in soybean explants"

Undergraduate Research Abstracts and Technical Reports

Cornell Undergraduate Research Forum:

Ho, Leah. Buckwheat alpha-galactosidases (abstract). Cornell University Undergraduate Research Forum (April 19, 2000) 15, 26.

Vu, Virginia. Fagopyritol synthase (abstract). Cornell University Undergraduate Research Forum (April 19, 2000) 15, 26-27.

Odorcic, S. Galactosyl cyclitol accumulation enhanced by substrate feeding of soybean embryos (abstract). Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Forum, Spring 2001, April 25, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 16, 17.

Vassallo, E. Desiccation tolerance of the Schismus arabicus seedling (abstract). Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Forum, Spring 2001, April 25, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 16, 21-22.

Gomes, C. Translocation of myo-inositol, D-pinitol, and D-chiro-inositol in soybean explants (abstract). Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Undergraduate Research Forum, Spring 2002, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 17, 30.

Odorcic, S. Substrate feeding of soybean embyros increases accumulation of galactosyl cyclitols (abstract). Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Undergraduate Research Forum, Spring 2002, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 17, 42.