Leaf structural and hydraulic adjustment with respect to air humidity and canopy position in silver birch (Betula pendula).

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 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：:Although touch responses of plant roots are an important adaptive behavior, the molecular mechanism remains unclear. We have developed a bioassay for measuring root-bending responses to physical hardness in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings. Our test requires a two-layer solid medium. Primary roots growing downward throu...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yamamoto C,Sakata Y,Taji T,Baba T,Tanaka S

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structures and levels of anthocyanin-related compounds were analyzed during the development of marginal picotee petals in white-center and white-marginal cultivars of Petunia hybrida. In the white site of a white-center cultivar, higher concentrations of quercetin derivatives possessing 7-O-glucoside and/or 3'-O-gluco...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Saito R,Kuchitsu K,Ozeki Y,Nakayama M

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：: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：:We used sequence variation of the atpB- rbcL intergenic spacer of cpDNA and nested clade analysis to assess the phylogeographic pattern of Michelia formosana, a species restricted to Taiwan and the Ryukyus. In total, 31 haplotypes were identified and clustered into four major chlorotypes. Genetic composition of nearly...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Lu SY,Hong KH,Liu SL,Cheng YP,Wu WL,Chiang TY

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elongation growth of the hypocotyls of radish and cucumber seedlings was examined under hypergravity in a newly developed centrifuge (Kasahara et al. 1995). The effects of hypergravity on elongation growth differed between the two species. The rate of elongation of radish hypocotyls was reduced under basipetal hyp...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Kasahara H,Shiwa M,Takeuchi Y,Yamada M

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：: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：:Polymerase chain reaction fragment length polymorphisms and nucleotide sequences for a cytochrome P450 gene encoding flavonoid-3',5'-hydroxylase, Hf1, were studied in 19 natural taxa of Petunia. Natural Petunia taxa were classified into six groups based on major insertion or deletion events that occurred only in intro...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Chen S,Matsubara K,Omori T,Kokubun H,Kodama H,Watanabe H,Hashimoto G,Marchesi E,Bullrich L,Ando T

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:A knowledge of fern phenology promotes understanding of the biology and ecology of ferns. In this study, the phenology of 16 fern species in a subtropical broadleaf forest (N24 degrees 46', E121 degrees 34') in northeastern Taiwan was monitored from August 1997 to August 2001. Every fern produced both fertile and ster...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Lee PH,Lin TT,Chiou WL

更新日期：2009-01-01 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 multicellular organisms, cellular components are constantly translocated within cells and are also transported exclusively between limited cells, regardless of their physical distance. Exosomes function as one of the key mediators of intercellular transportation. External vesicles were identified 50 years ago in pl...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Miyado K,Kang W,Yamatoya K,Hanai M,Nakamura A,Mori T,Miyado M,Kawano N

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：: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：: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：:We assessed leaf-area density (LAD; m(2) m(-3)) within the crown of Aucuba japonica (Cornaceae) growing under different light regimes and analyzed the components of crown architecture that most influenced variation in LAD. At a whole-crown level, extension-unit (EU) density (EUs/m(3)) had the greatest impact on LAD. T...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Ali MS,Kikuzawa K

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rehmannia japonica (Thunb.) Makino ex T. Yamaz. is an endangered perennial herb species in Japan. Although earlier the Japanese considered it a variety of R. glutinosa, recent Japanese taxonomists have consistently regarded it as an independent species. According to the historical literature, Rehmannia japonica seems ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Kaneko S,Matsuki Y,Qiu YX,Isagi Y

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：: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：:Despite decades of research, ecologists continue to debate how spatial patterns of species richness arise across elevational gradients on the Earth. The equivocal results of these studies could emanate from variations in study design, sampling effort and data analysis. In this study, we demonstrate that the richness p...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Manish K,Pandit MK,Telwala Y,Nautiyal DC,Koh LP,Tiwari S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the original publication of the article, one of the author names, "Tao Fuijwara" was published incorrectly. The correct name is Tao Fujiwara. ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Liu H,Schneider H,Yu Y,Fujiwara T,Khine PK

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:Recent progress in the study of cytokinin metabolism in plants indicates that quantitative analysis of cytokinin nucleotides is essential for elucidation of early steps of the biosynthetic pathway. However, traditional procedures for purification and quantification of cytokinin cannot discriminate the various nucleoti...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Takei K,Yamaya T,Sakakibara H

更新日期：2003-06-01 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