Pollen of Ceratostema (Ericaceae, Vaccinieae): tetrads without septa.

abstract：:The sexual reproductive processes of some representative freshwater green algae are reviewed. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular volvocine alga having two mating types: mating type plus (mt+) and mating type minus (mt-), which are controlled by a single, complex mating-type locus. Sexual adhesion between the g...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Sekimoto H

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Chenopodiaceae is one of the families including C4 species among eudicots. In this family, the genus Chenopodium is considered to include only C3 species. However, we report here a transition from C3 photosynthesis to proto-Kranz to C3-C4 intermediate type in Chenopodium. We investigated leaf anatomical and photos...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yorimitsu Y,Kadosono A,Hatakeyama Y,Yabiku T,Ueno O

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH, EC 1.1.1.204) to fruit size was investigated using the normal and small-fruit variants of Persea americana Mill. cv. 'Hass'. Inhibition of XDH by treatment of normal fruit, in the linear phase of growth (phase II), with allopurinol (Allo) arrested fruit growth. Adenine ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Taylor NJ,Cowan AK

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drought is believed to cause many metabolic changes which affect plant growth and development. However, it might be mitigated by various inorganic substances, such as nitrogen. Thus, the study was carried out to investigate the effect of foliar-applied urea with or without urease inhibitor N-(n-butyl) thiophosphoric t...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Gou W,Zheng P,Tian L,Gao M,Zhang L,Akram NA,Ashraf M

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant organ growth changes under genetic and environmental influences can be observed as altered cell proliferation and volume growth. The two aspects are mutually dependent and intricately related. For comprehensive growth analysis, it is necessary to specify the relationship quantitatively. Here, we develop a simple...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Iwamoto A,Satoh D,Furutani M,Maruyama S,Ohba H,Sugiyama M

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drought is an important environmental factor that can severely affect plant growth and reproduction. Although many genes related to drought tolerance have been studied in economically important crops, very few genes have been functionally identified in Malus sieversii. In this study, we isolated a new gene based on th...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yang M,Che S,Zhang Y,Wang H,Wei T,Yan G,Song W,Yu W

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:Cyrtomium is an Asiatic genus characterized by anastomosing veins with included veinlets, and comprises about 40 species. We sequenced rbcL and trnL-F sequences of 19 species of Cyrtomium and eight species from related genera in order to elucidate a molecular phylogeny of the genus using maximum-parsimony methods. The...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Lu JM,Li DZ,Gao LM,Cheng X,Wu D

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant triterpenoids are a diverse group of secondary metabolites with wide distribution, high chemical diversity and interesting pharmacological and antimicrobial properties. The first step in the biosynthesis of all triterpenoids is the cyclization of the 2,3-oxidosqualene precursor, catalyzed by oxidosqualene cyclas...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Pensec F,Szakiel A,Pączkowski C,Woźniak A,Grabarczyk M,Bertsch C,Fischer MJ,Chong J

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of sugars on root growth and on development of adventitious roots were analyzed in Arabidopsis thaliana. Seeds were sown on agar plates containing 0.0-5.0% sugars and placed vertically in darkness (DD) or under long day (LD, 16 h:8 h) conditions, so that the seedlings were constantly attached to the agar m...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Takahashi F,Sato-Nara K,Kobayashi K,Suzuki M,Suzuki H

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to evaluate the behavior of zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.) and cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) under boron (B) excess. Plants were grown under greenhouse conditions in a sandy soil-peat mixture using a nutrient solution containing 0.2 (control), 10 and 20 mg L(-1) B. Visible symptoms were quantified and l...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Landi M,Remorini D,Pardossi A,Guidi L

更新日期：2013-11-01 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：: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：:Despite decades of research, ecologists continue to debate how spatial patterns of species richness arise across elevational gradients on the Earth. The equivocal results of these studies could emanate from variations in study design, sampling effort and data analysis. In this study, we demonstrate that the richness p...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Manish K,Pandit MK,Telwala Y,Nautiyal DC,Koh LP,Tiwari S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low doses of microtubule-interacting drugs cause wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana seedling roots to twist in a left-handed helical direction. We here report molecular characterization of an A. thaliana tubulin mutant whose roots twist in a right-handed direction and have shallow left-handed cortical microtubule arrays w...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Ishida T,Hashimoto T

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthocyanin synthesis and chlorophyll degradation in regenerated torenia (Torenia fournieri Linden ex Fourn.) shoots induced by osmotic stress with 7% sucrose were examined to identify the genes regulating the underlying molecular mechanism. To achieve this, suppression subtractive hybridization was performed to enric...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Nagira Y,Shimamura K,Hirai S,Shimanuki M,Kodama H,Ozeki Y

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minghuai 1 (MH1) is a yam (Dioscorea alata) cultivar with high tolerance to flooding but sensitivity to chilling. MH1 responded differently to chilling and flooding according to various physiological parameters and antioxidant enzymes. Flooding led to an increase in ascorbate peroxidase (APX) activity in both roots an...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Chen Z,Lu HH,Hua S,Lin KH,Chen N,Zhang Y,You Z,Kuo YW,Chen SP

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light- and nitrogen-use change was examined along productivity gradients in natural grasslands at Laelatu, western Estonia, both at community level and in most abundant species. Aboveground biomass (M) ranged from 341 to 503 g m(-2) in wet (W) and from 248 to 682 g m(-2) in dry (D) community. Aboveground leaf area rat...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Aan A,Lõhmus K,Sellin A,Kull O

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:A new fossil leaf species, Liquidambar bella (Altingiaceae), is described from the lower part of the Eocene Huangniuling Formation, Maoming Basin, South China. Suprabasal venation in the fossil lobed Liquidambar leaves is reported for the first time. The new species provides additional palaeobotanical evidence on the ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Maslova NP,Kodrul TM,Herman AB,Tu M,Liu X,Jin J

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Garden asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) is a dioecious species whose male and female flowers are found in separate unisexual individuals. A region called the M-locus, located on a pair of homomorphic sex chromosomes, controls sexual dimorphism in asparagus. To date, no sex determining gene has been isolated from a...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Deng CL,Wang NN,Li SF,Dong TY,Zhao XP,Wang SJ,Gao WJ,Lu LD

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:Lipids are the major constituents of all membranous structures in plants. Plants possess two pathways for lipid biosynthesis: the prokaryotic pathway (i.e., plastidic pathway) and the eukaryotic pathway (i.e., endoplasmic-reticulum (ER) pathway). Whereas some plants synthesize galactolipids from diacylglycerol assembl...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Singh V,Singh PK,Siddiqui A,Singh S,Banday ZZ,Nandi AK

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:For plant cells in the early phases of water stress exposure, the genes induced under such conditions play a key role in detecting and responding to water deficit. In this study, potato cell suspensions were used as a simplified model system to dissect early molecular changes upon low water potential. In particular, t...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Ambrosone A,Di Giacomo M,Leone A,Grillo MS,Costa A

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:MOTHER OF FT AND TFL1 (MFT)-like genes belong to the phosphatidylethanoamine-binding protein (PEBP) gene family in plants. In contrast to their homologs FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT)-like and TERMINAL FLOWER 1 (TFL1)-like genes, which are involved in the regulation of the flowering time pathway, MFT-like genes function mainl...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Tao YB,Luo L,He LL,Ni J,Xu ZF

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metazoan cell nucleus is physically supported by nuclear lamina structures, which are mainly composed of filamentous protein lamins. CROWDED NUCLEI (CRWNs)/nuclear matrix constituent proteins are considered potential candidates of lamin analogs in plants. CRWNs specifically localize to the nuclear periphery, maint...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Sakamoto Y

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex allocation of a cosexual wind-pollinated species, Quercus dentata (Fagaceae), was analyzed using biomass, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus as currencies based on data accumulated for 61 individuals from 1997-2004. Strongly female-biased sex allocation was indicated when measured in terms of biomass and carbon, but ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Ishida TA,Hattori K,Shibata S,Suzuki M,Kimura MT

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During different environmental stress conditions, plant growth is regulated by the hormone abscisic acid (an apocarotenoid). In the biosynthesis of abscisic acid, the oxidative cleavage of cis-epoxycarotenoid catalyzed by 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (NCED) is the crucial step. The NCED genes were isolated in num...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Priya R,Siva R

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00