Mechanical load induces upregulation of transcripts for a set of genes implicated in secondary wall formation in the supporting tissue of Arabidopsis thaliana.

abstract：:Hatena arenicola (Katablepharidophycota) is a single-celled eukaryote that temporarily possesses a chlorophyte alga of the genus Nephroselmis as an intracellular symbiont. In the present study, we investigated the molecular diversity of the endosymbiont Nephroselmis in a natural population of the host H. arenicola. We...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yamaguchi H,Nakayama T,Hongoh Y,Kawachi M,Inouye I

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various photoreceptors in plants are used to monitor important environmental light signals and regulate plant development. Despite their functional importance, recent studies have demonstrated that red/far-red absorbing phytochromes or blue/UV-A absorbing cryptochromes are involved in local adaptation within a species...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Ikeda H,Fujii N,Setoguchi H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apogamous fern species are often difficult to distinguish from related species because of their continuous morphological variations. To clarify the genetic relationships among the members of the Dryopteris varia complex, we analyzed the nucleotide sequences of the plastid gene rbcL and the nuclear gene PgiC. We also a...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Hori K,Tono A,Fujimoto K,Kato J,Ebihara A,Watano Y,Murakami N

更新日期：2014-11-01 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 evolution of selfing from outcrossing ancestors is known to have occurred repeatedly in angiosperms. Theoretical studies have argued that the transition from outcrossing to selfing is accomplished more easily than the reverse case, and phylogenetic analyses involving self-compatible (SC) and self-incompatible (SI)...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Kubota S,Ohara M

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：: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：:There is a growing requirement for ecosystem science to help inform a deeper understanding of the effects of global climate change and land use change on terrestrial ecosystem structure and function, from small area (plot) to landscape, regional and global scales. To meet these requirements, ecologists have investigat...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Muraoka H,Koizumi H

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in our understanding of abscisic acid (ABA) signaling have identified a core pathway consisting of receptors (PYR/PYL/RCAR), protein phosphatases (PP2C), protein kinases (SnRK2), and several downstream factors that will lead to the next stage of ABA research. Systems biology will be an important concep...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Umezawa T

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have achieved the symbiotic cultivation of an apparently achlorophyllous orchid, Epipogium roseum Lindl., with a mycorrhizal fungus isolated from an underground organ of this orchid. Although the seed germination rate was extremely low, subsequent growth from protocorm to flowering was induced in a medium containin...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yagame T,Yamato M,Mii M,Suzuki A,Iwase K

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：: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：: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：:Appropriate management of species of conservation concern requires designing strategies that should include genetic information as small population size and restricted geographic range can reduce genetic variation. We used AFLPs to investigate genetic variation within and among populations of the endangered narrow end...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Lopez L,Barreiro R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light-induced chloroplast movements control efficient light utilization in leaves, and thus, are essential for leaf photosynthesis and biomass production under fluctuating light conditions. Chloroplast movements have been intensively analyzed using wild-type and mutant plants of Arabidopsis thaliana. The molecular mec...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Kihara M,Ushijima T,Yamagata Y,Tsuruda Y,Higa T,Abiko T,Kubo T,Wada M,Suetsugu N,Gotoh E

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：:We discovered that some tree species have leaves whose adaxial sides show bright green-blue fluorescence upon exposure to ultraviolet irradiation. In total, 141 native Japanese species belonging to 47 families were analyzed, and the brightness of the leaf fluorescence, represented by the L* values (Lab color space) of...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Nakayama M,Iwashina T

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new species Camellia nanningensis was described on the basis of well-preserved mummified wood from the upper Oligocene Yongning Formation of Nanning Basin in Guangxi Province, South China. This represents the most ancient fossil wood assigned to Camellia, and the earliest fossil record of the family Theaceae in Chin...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Huang LL,Jin JH,Quan C,Oskolski AA

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:Protocols for DNA extraction from plants generally involve physical and chemical destruction of tissues. Use of these conventional methods precludes preservation of morphological information from herbarium specimens, especially for small plants with few leaves, and reduces the voucher value of specimens. Here, we deve...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Sugita N,Ebihara A,Hosoya T,Jinbo U,Kaneko S,Kurosawa T,Nakae M,Yukawa T

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terrestrial green plants absorb photosynthetically active radiation (PAR; 400-700 nm) but do not absorb photons evenly across the PAR waveband. The spectral absorbance of photosystems and chloroplasts is lowest for green light, which occurs within the highest irradiance waveband of direct solar radiation. We demonstra...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Kume A

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：: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：: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：:Cassava anthracnose disease (CAD), caused by the fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides f. sp. Manihotis, is a serious disease of cassava (Manihot esculenta) worldwide. In this study, we established a cassava oligonucleotide-DNA microarray representing 59,079 probes corresponding to approximately 30,000 genes based on ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Utsumi Y,Tanaka M,Kurotani A,Yoshida T,Mochida K,Matsui A,Ishitani M,Sraphet S,Whankaew S,Asvarak T,Narangajavana J,Triwitayakorn K,Sakurai T,Seki M

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) gene, DcPAL3, was expressed during the synthesis of anthocyanin in suspension-cultured cells of carrot (Daucus carota). There were two putative cis-elements in the DcPAL3 promoter region: the box-L and GCC-box homologs. Both of these are committed to the upregulation of promoter a...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Kimura S,Chikagawa Y,Kato M,Maeda K,Ozeki Y

更新日期：2008-09-01 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 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：: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：: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