Floral structure and development in Nartheciaceae (Dioscoreales), with special reference to ovary position and septal nectaries.

abstract：:Although genetically modified (GM) soybean has never been cultivated commercially in Japan, it is essential to set up the isolation distance required to prevent out-crossing between GM and conventional soybean in preparation for any future possibility of pollen transfer. The airborne soybean pollen was sampled using s...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yoshimura Y

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The post-Golgi traffic network in plant cells is highly complex, which is correlated with the large number of genes related to this function. RABs and SNAREs are key regulators of tethering and fusion of transport vesicles to target membranes, and the numbers of these regulators have also expanded in plant lineages. I...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Ebine K,Ueda T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have developed certain adaptive responses to environmental stresses that cause adverse effects on growth. To identify genes involved in the adaptive mechanisms, we constructed a large population of transgenic Arabidopsis expressing rice full-length cDNAs, and performed gain-of-function screening under high-sali...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yokotani N,Ichikawa T,Kondou Y,Iwabuchi M,Matsui M,Hirochika H,Oda K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legumes engage in symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria, collectively called rhizobia, under nitrogen-limited conditions. In many legumes, the root invasion of rhizobia is mediated by infection threads (ITs), tubular invaginations of the host cell wall and plasma membrane, developed from infection foci of defor...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Liu M,Soyano T,Yano K,Hayashi M,Kawaguchi M

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The physiological response of trees to drought is crucial for understanding the risk of mortality and its feedbacks to climate under the increase in droughts due to climate change, especially for the largest trees in tropical rainforests because of their large contribution to total carbon storage and water use. We det...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yoshifuji N,Kumagai T,Ichie T,Kume T,Tateishi M,Inoue Y,Yoneyama A,Nakashizuka T

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Pristine tropical rainforests in Southeast Asia have rich species diversity and are important habitats for many plant species. However, the extent of these forests has declined in recent decades and they have become fragmented due to human activities. These developments may reduce the genetic diversity of species with...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Fukue Y,Kado T,Lee SL,Ng KK,Muhammad N,Tsumura Y

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Hybridization between crops and their wild relatives potentially threatens the genetic identity of the wild plants, particularly in the case of genetically modified crops. Only a few studies have examined the use of temporal isolation to prevent hybridization, and the indices used in those studies, (e.g., the days of ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Ohigashi K,Mizuguti A,Yoshimura Y,Matsuo K,Miwa T

更新日期：2014-01-01 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

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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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