Analysis of the complete plastid genome of the unicellular red alga Porphyridium purpureum.

abstract：:Plants generate various tissues and organs via a strictly regulated developmental program. The plant vasculature is a complex tissue system consisting of xylem and phloem tissues with a layer of cambial cells in between. Multiple regulatory steps are involved in vascular development. Although molecular and genetic stu...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Kondo Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HKT transporters are Na(+)-permeable membrane proteins, which mediate Na(+) and K(+) homeostasis in K(+)-depleted and saline environments in plants. Class II HKT transporters, a distinct subgroup found predominantly in monocots, are known to mediate Na(+)-K(+) co-transport in principle. Here we report features of ion ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Suzuki K,Costa A,Nakayama H,Katsuhara M,Shinmyo A,Horie T

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Helwingia, a shrub or small tree of four species distributed in East Asia, has been assigned to various families, mainly Cornaceae. However, molecular analyses show that the genus belongs to its own family Helwingiaceae which is sister to Phyllonomaceae (Phyllonoma only) in the order Aquifoliales. On the basis of H. j...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Ao C,Tobe H

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:The pollen morphology of 11 genera and 11 species of the Hydrocharitaceae and one species of the Najadaceae was studied using scanning and transmission electron microscopies, and the exine structures and sculptures are discussed in relation to pollination mechanisms and the molecular phylogeny. The pollen grains of th...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Tanaka N,Uehara K,Murata J

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplasts change their intracellular positions in response to their light environment. Under darkness, chloroplasts assume special positions that are different from those under light conditions. Here, we analyzed chloroplast dark positioning using Adiantum capillus-veneris gametophyte cells. When chloroplasts were ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Tsuboi H,Wada M

更新日期：2012-03-01 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：:Regulation of defense in plants is a complex process mediated by various signaling pathways. Promoter analysis of defense-related genes is useful to understand these signaling pathways involved in regulation. To this end, the regulation of the polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein encoding gene from Vitis vinifera L. (...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Joubert DA,de Lorenzo G,Vivier MA

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：: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：: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：:Plants have evolved intricate mechanisms to respond and adapt to a wide variety of biotic and abiotic stresses in their environment. The Arabidopsis DEAR1 (DREB and EAR motif protein 1; At3g50260) gene encodes a protein containing significant homology to the DREB1/CBF (dehydration-responsive element binding protein 1/...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Tsutsui T,Kato W,Asada Y,Sako K,Sato T,Sonoda Y,Kidokoro S,Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K,Tamaoki M,Arakawa K,Ichikawa T,Nakazawa M,Seki M,Shinozaki K,Matsui M,Ikeda A,Yamaguchi J

更新日期：2009-11-01 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：:Salt tolerance mechanisms were studied in three Irano-Turanian halophytic species from the Brassicaceae ‎‎(Lepidium latifolium, L. perfoliatum and Schrenkiella parvula) and compared with the glycophyte Arabidopsis thaliana. According to seed germination under salt stress, L. perfoliatum was the most tolerant species, ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Hajiboland R,Bahrami-Rad S,Akhani H,Poschenrieder C

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The daily total photosynthetically active radiation (400-700 nm, PAR) and near-infrared radiation (700-1000 nm, NIR) were measured in the understory beneath the canopy (PARt and NIRt) and above the canopy (PARi and NIRi) of a Japanese cool-temperate deciduous broad-leaved forest during the snow-free period (May to Nov...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Kume A,Nasahara KN,Nagai S,Muraoka H

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Phospholipase D (PLD) and its product phosphatidic acid (PA) are emerging as essential regulators of cytoskeleton organization in plants. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms of PA-mediated microtubule reorganization in plants remain largely unknown. In this study, we used pharmacological and genetic approache...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Zhang Q,Qu Y,Wang Q,Song P,Wang P,Jia Q,Guo J

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：: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：:We examined the effects of mechanical load on transcripts of a set of cell wall related genes that are implicated in the formation of supporting tissues, by applying a 50 mg strip of aluminum foil to the inflorescence stem of Arabidopsis thaliana, a weight roughly half the fresh weight of the stem. Transcript levels o...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Koizumi K,Yokoyama R,Nishitani K

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00