Developmental processes of achlorophyllous orchid, Epipogium roseum: from seed germination to flowering under symbiotic cultivation with mycorrhizal fungus.

abstract：:Electron transport in photosystem II (PSII) and photosystem I (PSI) was estimated in terms of chlorophyll fluorescence and changes in P700 redox, respectively, in the unicellular green alga Dunaliella salina in the presence or absence of a nitrogen source in the culture medium. In a nitrogen-containing medium, the qua...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Einali A,Shariati M,Sato F,Endo T

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：:Approximately one-fourth of Japan's native plant species are threatened with extinction. To conserve these species, it is critical to evaluate genetic diversity at species-level and population-level. Some factors, including population size and geographic distribution, are known to influence the population genetic dive...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Maki M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium oxalate (CaOx) crystals in higher plants occur in five forms: raphides, styloids, prisms, druses, and crystal sand. CaOx crystals are formed in almost all tissues in intravacuolar crystal chambers. However, the mechanism of crystallization and the role of CaOx crystals have not been clearly explained. The aim ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Gębura J,Winiarczyk K

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：: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：: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：:Reduction of pollen flow can affect plant abundance and population viability and cause selection on plant mating system and floral traits. Little is known on the effect of this phenomenon in species naturally restricted to small and isolated habitats, that may have developed strategies to cope with long-term isolation...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Minuto L,Guerrina M,Roccotiello E,Roccatagliata N,Mariotti MG,Casazza G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lavoisiera campos-portoana Barreto (Melastomataceae) has two kinds of leaves, pubescent and glabrous, and branches may have one or both types of leaves at the same moment. The plant is endemic to high altitude rocky fields in Brazil where rainfall is very seasonal. We predicted that these two l...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： França MG,Prados LM,de Lemos-Filho JP,Ranieri BD,Vale FH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How phenotypic or genetic diversity is maintained in a natural habitat is a fundamental question in evolutionary biology. Flower color polymorphism in plants is a common polymorphism. Hepatica nobilis var. japonica on the Sea of Japan (SJ) side of the Japanese mainland exhibits within population flower color polymorph...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Kameoka S,Sakio H,Abe H,Ikeda H,Setoguchi H

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrary to extensive researches on the roles of metallothioneins (MTs) in metal tolerance of animals, the roles of plant MTs in metal tolerance are largely under investigation. In this study, we evaluated the functional role of type 2 MT from Colocasia esculenta (CeMT2b) in Zn tolerance of tobacco and E. coli cells. ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Kim YO,Lee YG,Patel DH,Kim HM,Ahn SJ,Bae HJ

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:Climate change scenarios predict an increase in air temperature and precipitation in northern temperate regions of Europe by the end of the century. Increasing atmospheric humidity inevitably resulting from more frequent rainfall events reduces water flux through vegetation, influencing plants' structure and functioni...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Sellin A,Taneda H,Alber M

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：: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：:Petal flavonoid compositions of 39 tree peony cultivars from Xibei (northwest China) were investigated in order to study the chemotaxonomic relationship among tree peony species. Six anthocyanins, the 3- O-glucosides and 3,5-di- O-glucosides of three anthocyanidins-pelargonidin (Pg), cyanidin (Cy), and peonidin (Pn)-e...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Wang LS,Hashimoto F,Shiraishi A,Aoki N,Li JJ,Sakata Y

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-pollinator interactions have usually been researched in flowers that have fully opened. However, some pollinators can visit flowers before full opening and contribute to fruit and seed sets. In this paper, we researched the pollination biology of flowers just starting to open in four field experiments. We observ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yamaji F,Ohsawa TA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expansins form a superfamily of plant proteins that assist in cell wall loosening during growth and development. The superfamily is divided into four families: EXPA, EXPB, EXLA, and EXLB (Sampedro and Cosgrove in Genome Biol 6:242, 2005. doi: 10.1186/gb-2005-6-12-242 ). Previous studies on Arabidopsis, rice, and Popul...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Seader VH,Thornsberry JM,Carey RE

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:We previously reported the occurrence of triploid strains in Japanese populations of Cayratia japonica (Thunb.) Gagnep. Interestingly, the triploid and most diploid strains had variably reduced pollen fertility. Two questions emerged from this earlier work: (1) How do triploids arise, and are they allotriploids or aut...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Tsukaya H,Ishikawa N,Okada H

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：: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：:We isolated several mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. that accumulated less anthocyanin in the plant tissues, but had seeds with a brown color similar to the wild-type. These mutants were allelic with the anthocyaninless1 (anl1) mutant that has been mapped at 15.0 cM of chromosome 5. We performed fine mappin...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Kubo H,Nawa N,Lupsea SA

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vegetative phenology of 29 alpine species, including herbaceous and woody summergreens and evergreens, was investigated. Summergreen species initiated and completed leaf growth earlier than evergreen species. The green period of leaves in summergreen plants was determined largely by the time of growth initiation. ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yoshie F

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report on gamma-tubulin and microtubule arrays during microsporogenesis in a gymnosperm. Meiosis in Ginkgo biloba is polyplastidic, as is typical of the spermatophyte clade, and microtubule arrays are organized at various sites during meiosis and cytokinesis. In early prophase, a cluster of gamma-tub...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Brown RC,Lemmon BE

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：:Two types of abnormal sporophytes were observed in a population of diploid Thelypteris decursive-pinnata. Most sporophytes in this population exhibited regular chromosome pairing, resulting in the formation of 30 bivalents in meiosis I; however, they produced abortive spores to various degrees. Some formed large globo...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Nakato N,Ootsuki R,Murakami N,Masuyama S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In phylogenetic trees generated from partial trnL(UAA) intron sequences, the hornworts (represented by nine species from the genera Anthoceros, Dendroceros, Megaceros, Notothylas and Phaeoceros) are resolved as a monophyletic group and are separated from the clades of mosses, liverworts and tracheophytes. A secondary ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Stech M,Quandt D,Frey W

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Root hairs expand the effective root surface to increase the uptake of nutrients and water from the soil. Here the local effects of the two major nitrogen sources, ammonium and nitrate, on root hairs were investigated using split plates. In three contrasting accessions of A. thaliana, namely Col-0, Tsu-0 and Sha, root...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Vatter T,Neuhäuser B,Stetter M,Ludewig U

更新日期：2015-09-01 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