Molecular circumscription of the hornworts (Anthocerotophyta) based on the chloroplast DNA trnL-trnF region.

abstract：:A putative carbohydrate binding module (CBM) from strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) expansin 2 (CBM-FaExp2) was cloned and the encoding protein was over-expressed in Escherichia coli and purified in order to evaluate its capacity to bind different cell wall polysaccharides "in vitro". The protein CBM-FaExp2 bound...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Nardi C,Escudero C,Villarreal N,Martínez G,Civello PM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nuclear gene, FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) homolog, was cloned from Phyllostachys meyeri as PmFT. Its putative copy number was estimated as four by Southern blot analysis, and the two copies were completely sequenced. Twenty-seven FT homolog sequences of bambusoid and early diverging grasses comprised 172-bp exons, and 35...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Hisamoto Y,Kashiwagi H,Kobayashi M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant clonality may greatly reduce effective population size and influence management strategies of rare and endangered species. We examined genetic diversity and the extent of clonality in four populations of the monotypic herbaceous perennial Japonolirion osense, which is one of the most rare flowering plants in Jap...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Tomimatsu H,Hoya A,Takahashi H,Ohara M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaf physiological and gas-exchange traits of a summer-green herbaceous perennial, Parasenecio yatabei, growing along a stream were examined in relation to leaf age. In its vegetative phase, the aerial part of this plant consists of only one leaf and provides an ideal system for the study of leaf longevity. Volumetric...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Tomimatsu H,Hori Y

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ecological stoichiometry of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) during the "explosive growth period" (EGP) remains unknown. In a previous study, we showed that the carbon (C) required by shoots during the EGP is derived from attached mature bamboos. In this study, we attempted to answer the following two questions:...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Sun H,Li Q,Lei Z,Zhang J,Song X,Song X

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the levels of radioactive caesium (RACs; ¹³⁴Cs and ¹³⁷Cs) in plants and soil in a grassland, 32 km northwest of the Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant, from June 2011 to October 2012. In 2011, the highest RACs levels (¹³⁴Cs + ¹³⁷Cs) in plants and in the 0-5 cm soil layer were approximately 80 kBq per kg dry w...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Terashima I,Shiyomi M,Fukuda H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PEND protein is a DNA-binding protein in the inner envelope membrane of the developing chloroplast. It consists of a short pre-sequence, an N-terminal DNA-binding domain (cbZIP), a central repeat domain, and a C-terminal transmembrane domain. PEND homologs have been detected in various angiosperms, including Arabi...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Terasawa K,Sato N

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mature megaspores of Selaginella diffusa (C. Presl) Spring the units of the exospore are ordered and become unordered toward the outer and inner surfaces. The exospore surface is coated with silica at maturity. The insertion of the future gap begins in early stages with formation of many minigaps within the inner p...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Morbelli MA,Rowley JR,El-Ghazaly G

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Aminobutyrate transaminase (GABA-T) catalyzes the conversion of GABA to succinic semialdehyde. Using differential display PCR and cDNA library screening, a full-length GABA-T cDNA (OsGABA-T) was isolated from rice (Oryza sativa) leaves infected with an incompatible race of Magnaporthe grisea. The deduced amino a...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Wu C,Zhou S,Zhang Q,Zhao W,Peng Y

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated the TaMYBsm1 genes, encoding R2R3-type MYB proteins in common wheat, aimed to uncover the possible molecular mechanisms related to drought response. The TaMYBsm1 genes, TaMYBsm1-A, TaMYBsm1-B and TaMYBsm1-D, were isolated and analyzed from the common wheat cultivar Shimai 15. Their expression patterns unde...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Li MJ,Qiao Y,Li YQ,Shi ZL,Zhang N,Bi CL,Guo JK

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of sieving techniques to bulk samples from the Ashizawa Formation, Futaba Group (Lower Coniacian) of northeastern Honshu, Japan, has yielded well-preserved mesofossil assemblages comparable with those recently described from eastern North America, Europe, and central Asia. Among the most abundant and d...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Takahashi M,Crane PR,Manchester SR

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological and molecular variation in Mitchella undulata Siebold et Zucc. was examined to evaluate the genetic basis for recognizing the dwarf variety, M. undulata var. minor Masamune. Considerable variation in leaf size in M. undulata, but no obvious morphological discontinuities, were found between the normal and...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yokoyama J,Fukuda T,Tsukaya H

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra- and transcellular water movements in plants are regulated by the water permeability of the plasma membrane (PM) and vacuolar membrane (VM) in plant cells. In the present study, we investigated the osmotic water permeability of both PM (P ( f1)) and VM (P ( f2)), as well as the bulk osmotic water permeability of...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Murai-Hatano M,Kuwagata T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been almost 30 years since RNA interference (RNAi) was shown to silence genes via double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) in Caenorhabditis elegans (Fire et al. 1998). 20-30-nucleotide (nt) small non-coding RNAs are a key element of the RNAi machinery. Recently, phased small interfering RNAs (phasiRNAs), small RNAs that ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Komiya R

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodesmata (PD) are intercellular connections in plants which play roles in various developmental processes. They are also found in brown algae, a group of eukaryotes possessing complex multicellularity, as well as green plants. Recently, we conducted an ultrastructural study of PD in several species of brown algae...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Terauchi M,Nagasato C,Motomura T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixotrophic plants obtain carbon by their own photosynthetic activity and from their root-associated mycorrhizal fungi. Mixotrophy is deemed a pre-adaptation for evolution of mycoheterotrophic nutrition, where plants fully depend on fungi and lose their photosynthetic activity. The aim of this study was to clarify myc...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Matsuda Y,Yamaguchi Y,Matsuo N,Uesugi T,Ito J,Yagame T,Figura T,Selosse MA,Hashimoto Y

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bracts that lacked chlorophyll were compared with rosette leaves on the Chinese glasshouse plant Rheum alexandrae Batalin. The structures were analyzed anatomically and with photospectrometry. Histological features were significantly different between the bracts and the rosette leaves. Epidermal pavement cells and pal...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Tsukaya H

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature affects a cascade of ecological processes and functions of forests. With future higher global temperatures being inevitable it is critical to understand and predict how forest ecosystems and tree species will respond. This paper reviews experimental warming studies in boreal and temperate forests or tree s...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Chung H,Muraoka H,Nakamura M,Han S,Muller O,Son Y

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In young cucumber seedlings, the peg is a polar out-growth of tissue that functions by snagging the seed coat, thereby freeing the cotyledons. Previous studies have indicated that peg formation is gravity dependent. In this study we analyzed peg formation in cucumber seedlings (Cucumis sativus L. cv Burpee Hybrid II) ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Link BM,Cosgrove DJ

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Petrosaviaceae is a monocotyledonous plant family that comprises two genera: the autotrophic Japonolirion and the mycoheterotrophic Petrosavia. Accordingly, this plant family provides an excellent system to examine specificity differences in mycobionts between autotrophic and closely related mycoheterotrophic plant sp...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yamato M,Ogura-Tsujita Y,Takahashi H,Yukawa T

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neotropical woody bamboos range from northern Mexico to southern Argentina and Chile. The most interesting aspect of bamboo biology is their flowering habit. The species that are the most intriguing are those that manifest a cyclic pattern of gregarious flowering after long vegetative periods. The flowering cycle has ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Guerreiro C

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules are highly dynamic structures that control the spatiotemporal pattern of cell growth and division. Microtubule dynamics are regulated by reversible protein phosphorylation involving both protein kinases and phosphatases. Never in mitosis A (NIMA)-related kinases (NEKs) are a family of serine/threonine kin...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Takatani S,Otani K,Kanazawa M,Takahashi T,Motose H

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed features of genomic DNA methylation have been revealed by recent genome-wide analyses on several model organisms. An unexpected feature conserved among plants and some animals is the presence of DNA methylation within transcribed genes. For understanding the controlling mechanisms of the enigmatic genic methy...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Inagaki S,Kakutani T

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sesuvium portulacastrum is a halophytic species well adapted to salinity and drought. In order to evaluate the physiological impact of salt on water deficit-induced stress response, we cultivated seedlings for 12 days, in the presence or absence of 100 mmol l(-1) NaCl, on a nutrient solution containing either 0 mmol l...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Slama I,Ghnaya T,Messedi D,Hessini K,Labidi N,Savoure A,Abdelly C

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In multicellular organisms, cellular components are constantly translocated within cells and are also transported exclusively between limited cells, regardless of their physical distance. Exosomes function as one of the key mediators of intercellular transportation. External vesicles were identified 50 years ago in pl...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Miyado K,Kang W,Yamatoya K,Hanai M,Nakamura A,Mori T,Miyado M,Kawano N

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental conditions for efficient callus initiation from mangrove plants were investigated. As a source explant, leaf ofBruguiera sexangula was used. Mangrove plant is one of the most famous woody plants which can grow at the salty area. The initiated callus can be a suitable material for the investigation of salt...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Mimura T,Mimura M,Washitani-Nemoto S,Sakano K,Shimmen T,Siripatanadilok S

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaf hair points (LHPs) are important morphological structures in many desiccation-tolerant mosses, but study of their functions has been limited. A desert moss, Syntrichia caninervis, was chosen for examination of the ecological effects of LHPs on water retention and dew formation at individual and population (patch)...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Tao Y,Zhang YM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food storage tissue in the seeds of gymnosperms is female gametophyte (megagametophyte) that develops before fertilization, whereas, in seeds of angiosperms, food is stored as endosperm initiated by double fertilization. The megagametophyte is haploid, and endosperm is usually triploid, at least initially. Despite dif...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Brown RC,Lemmon BE

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular plants have a network of vasculature in their leaves, which supplies water and nutrients and exports photoassimilates to other tissues. The vascular network is patterned during the development of leaf primordia through the induction of provascular differentiation by auxin. Arabidopsis thaliana Dof5.8, encodin...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Konishi M,Yanagisawa S

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization between crops and their wild relatives potentially threatens the genetic identity of the wild plants, particularly in the case of genetically modified crops. Only a few studies have examined the use of temporal isolation to prevent hybridization, and the indices used in those studies, (e.g., the days of ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Ohigashi K,Mizuguti A,Yoshimura Y,Matsuo K,Miwa T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00