Overexpression of glutathione reductase but not glutathione synthetase leads to increases in antioxidant capacity and resistance to photoinhibition in poplar trees.

abstract：:Peroxygenase-catalyzed epoxidation of oleic acid in preparations of cereal seeds was investigated. The 105,000g particle fraction of oat (Avena sativa) seed homogenate showed high peroxygenase activity, i.e. 3034 [plus or minus] 288 and 2441 [plus or minus] 168 nmol (10 min)-1 mg-1 protein in two cultivars, whereas th...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Hamberg M,Hamberg G

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oleuropein, a terpene-derived glycosylated secoiridoid biosynthesized exclusively by members of the Oleaceae family, is involved in a two-component defense system comprising a β-glucosidase that activates oleuropein into a toxic glutaraldehyde-like structure. Oleuropein and its deglycosylated derivatives have high pha...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Koudounas K,Thomopoulou M,Michaelidis C,Zevgiti E,Papakostas G,Tserou P,Daras G,Hatzopoulos P

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of sugars and metabolic inhibitors on the elongation of Zea mays root segments was analyzed by a rhizometer which records the elongation of each of 32 root segments at the same time. Galactose suppressed the acid-enhanced rapid elongation after a lag period of 1.5 hours, but it did not inhibit the slow elon...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Tanimoto E,Scott TK,Masuda Y

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane fractions from mature silver beet (Beta vulgaris) deveined leaf and leaf stem homogenates have associated Ca(2+) -dependent protein kinase. The Ca(2+) -dependent protein kinase activity is associated with plasma membranes (density 1.14-1.18 grams per cubic centimeter) as determined from copurification on isop...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Klucis E,Polya GM

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most abundant proteins in maize (Zea mays L.) embryos is the molecular weight 63,000 globulin encoded by the Glb1 gene. To obtain DNA clones corresponding to Glb1, a cDNA library corresponding to RNA from developing maize embryos was constructed in a lambda expression vector and screened with antibodies spe...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Belanger FC,Kriz AL

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(3,5)P2] is an important lipid in membrane trafficking in animal and yeast systems; however, its role is still largely obscure in plants. Here, we demonstrate that the phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate 5-kinase, formation of aploid and binucleate cells1 (FAB1)/FYVE finger-co...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Hirano T,Munnik T,Sato MH

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological and molecular bases for contrasting [alpha]-amylase phenotypes were examined in germinating seeds of two barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) cultivars, Morex and Steptoe. Morex is a high-quality malting barley that develops high [alpha]-amylase activity soon after germination. Steptoe is a feed barley that d...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Skadsen RW

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of temperature on respiration and kinetics of H(2)PO(4) (-) and K(+) uptake in corn roots was determined in the range of 2 to 42 C. The response of uptake to temperature, determined from Q(10) and activation energy (Ea) data, for the anion and the cation differ significantly, especially in the range of upta...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Bravo-F P,Uribe EG

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact amyloplasts from potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) were used to study starch biosynthesis and phosphorylation. Assessed by the degree of intactness and by the level of cytosolic and vacuolar contamination, the best preparations were selected by searching for amyloplasts containing small starch grains. The isolated,...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Wischmann B,Hamborg Nielsen T,Lindberg Moller B

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phototropic response of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) is induced by the phototropin photoreceptors and modulated by the cryptochrome and phytochrome photoreceptors. Downstream of these photoreceptors, asymmetric lateral redistribution of auxin underlies the differential growth, which results in phototropism. ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Whippo CW,Hangarter RP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the relation between cell division and expansion in the regulation of organ growth rate, we used Arabidopsis thaliana primary roots grown vertically at 20 degreesC with an elongation rate that increased steadily during the first 14 d after germination. We measured spatial profiles of longitudinal veloci...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Beemster GT,Baskin TI

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane trafficking and cytoskeletal dynamics are important cellular processes that drive tip growth in root hairs. These processes interact with a multitude of signaling pathways that allow for the efficient transfer of information to specify the direction in which tip growth occurs. Here, we show that AGD1, a class...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Yoo CM,Wen J,Motes CM,Sparks JA,Blancaflor EB

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A closed system was designed for concomitant determination of net CO(2) uptake, transpiration, and foliar nitrogen (N) loss in soybeans (Glycine max [L.] Merr.). The CO(2) uptake was monitored by infrared analysis of system air removed periodically in aliquots. Leaf vapors were trapped in calibrated tubes at Dry Ice t...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Weiland RT,Stutte CA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptome resources for the medicinal plant Glaucium flavum were searched for orthologs showing identity with characterized O-methyltransferases (OMTs) involved in benzylisoquinoline alkaloid biosynthesis. Seven recombinant proteins were functionally tested using the signature alkaloid substrates for six OMTs: nor...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Chang L,Hagel JM,Facchini PJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of red pepper (Capsicum annuum L., cv Yaglik) responds to Fe deficiency stress with simultaneously enhanced H(+) extrusion, reduction of ferric ions and synthesis of malic and citric acid in a swollen subapical root zone densely covered with root hairs. It is demonstrated that these stress responses temporal...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Landsberg EC

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft x-ray microscopy (SXM) is a minimally invasive technique for single-cell high-resolution imaging as well as the visualization of intracellular distributions of light elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. We used SXM to observe photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation in the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaen...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Teramoto T,Azai C,Terauchi K,Yoshimura M,Ohta T

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using isopycnic sucrose gradients, we have ascertained the subcellular location of several enzymes involved in the processing of the N-linked oligosaccharides of glycoproteins in developing cotyledons of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris. All are localized in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) or Golgi complex as determ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Sturm A,Johnson KD,Szumilo T,Elbein AD,Chrispeels MJ

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrate reductase from wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv Bindawarra) leaves is inactivated by pretreatment with NADH, in the absence of nitrate, a 50% loss of activity occurring in 30 minutes at 25 degrees C with 10 micromolar NADH. Nitrate (50 micromolar) prevented inactivation by 10 micromolar NADH while cyanide (1 mic...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Aryan AP,Batt RG,Wallace W

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isoenzymes of lipoxygenase, a and b, have been obtained from bush beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) as electrophoretically homogeneous proteins. Both proteins have a molecular weight of 100,000, contain 1 atom of iron, and appear to be composed of a single peptide chain. However, these enzymes appear to differ in some ot...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Hurt GB,Axelrod B

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extraction of maize (Zea mays) leaves by progressive grinding under suitably protective conditions yields total carbonic anhydrase activities (4800 units per milligram chlorophyll) comparable to the activity in spinach (Spinacia oleracea) leaves. The total ribulose diphosphate carboxylase activity was also equal to or...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Poincelot RP

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gibberellins (GAs) are involved in regulation of many aspects during plant development. To investigate the impact of altered GA levels on plant growth and metabolism, transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants have been engineered to express either a GA20-oxidase (AtGA20-ox) or a GA2-oxidase (AtGA2-ox) gene from Ar...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Biemelt S,Tschiersch H,Sonnewald U

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized the gravitropic response of inflorescence stems in Arabidopsis thaliana. When the inflorescence stems were placed horizontally, they curved upward about 90 degrees within 90 min in darkness at 23 degrees C, exhibiting strong negative gravitropism. Decapitated stem segments (without all flowers, f...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Fukaki H,Fujisawa H,Tasaka M

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants respond in complex ways to their environment, to their internal physiological status, and to the activity of other plants, pathogens, herbivores, and organisms. Plant Signaling 2000, a symposium sponsored by the Penn State Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Physiology (May 18-20, 2000), explored the machine...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Cosgrove DJ,Gilroy S,Kao TH,Ma H,Schultz JC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone H2B monoubiquitination (H2Bub) is being recognized as a regulatory mechanism that controls a range of cellular processes in plants, but the molecular mechanisms of H2Bub that are involved in responses to biotic stress are largely unknown. In this study, we used wild-type and H2Bub loss-of-function mutations of...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Hu M,Pei BL,Zhang LF,Li YZ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patterns of nitrate reductase activity (NRA) in the leaves (in vivo assay) and root nodule nitrogenase activity (C(2)H(2) reduction) were investigated throughout the season in field-grown Phaseolus vulgaris plants.Maximal NRA (per g fresh weight) occurred at early stages of leaf development but total activity (per...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Franco AA,Pereira JC,Neyra CA

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of plants have been surveyed with respect to isolation by mild grinding in large quantities of leaf cells. The extent of recovery of mesophyll cells per unit leaf area was found to vary with plant species and the method of grinding. Greater than 70% recovery was obtained from the leaves of Canna indica L., Cr...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Kulandaivelu G,Gnanam A

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase was partially purified from Chlorella vulgaris 11h. 3-Phosphoglycerate activated the enzyme by lowering the Michaelis constant for glucose-1-phosphate (from 0.97 to 0.36 millimolar in the presence of 2 millimolar phosphoglycerate) and ATP (from 0.23 to 0.10 millimolar), as well as increas...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Nakamura Y,Imamura M

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "bound auxin" is herein used to describe auxin conjugates insoluble in organic solvents which dissolve indoleacetic acid (IAA) and its derivatives, but hydrolyzable by NaOH to release IAA. Bound auxin from pea stems was fractionated into water-soluble, water-insoluble/NaOH-hydrolyzable, and insoluble componen...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Davies PJ

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitive differential scanning calorimetry was employed to investigate thylakoid membrane structure. Calorimetric scans of chloroplast membranes suspended in a low ionic strength Hepesbuffered medium revealed endothermic transitions centered at the following temperatures ( degrees C): A (42.5), B (60.6), C(1) (64.9),...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Smith KA,Low PS

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water storage is thought to play an integral role in the maintenance of whole-plant water balance. The contribution of both living and dead cells to water storage can be derived from rehydration and water-release curves on excised plant material, but the underlying tissue-specific emptying/refilling dynamics remain un...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Knipfer T,Cuneo IF,Earles JM,Reyes C,Brodersen CR,McElrone AJ

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00