Principal transcriptional programs regulating plant amino acid metabolism in response to abiotic stresses.

abstract：:To regulate levels of holophytochrome in a spatial-specific manner and investigate the major sites of action of phytochromes during seedling development, we constructed transgenic Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) plant lines expressing plastid-targeted mammalian biliverdin IXalpha reductase (pBVR) under regulatory c...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Warnasooriya SN,Montgomery BL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) Mi-1 gene encodes a protein with putative coiled-coil nucleotide-binding site and leucine-rich repeat motifs. Mi-1 confers resistance to root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.), potato aphids (Macrosiphum euphorbiae), and sweet potato whitefly (Bemisia tabaci). To identify genes requir...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Bhattarai KK,Li Q,Liu Y,Dinesh-Kumar SP,Kaloshian I

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study was made of the effects of auxin (alpha-naphthalene acetic acid), kinetin (6-furfurylaminopurine) and a mixture of auxin and kinetin applied in vivo on synthesis of RNA and protein and the distribution of such synthesis amongst the subcellular fractions of sections of endocarp from Kentucky Wonder ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Sacher JA

更新日期：1967-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ZRP4, a 1.4-kb mRNA that preferentially accumulates in roots of young Zea mays L. plants, was identified by isolation of the corresponding cDNA clone. Genomic Southern analysis indicates that the zrp4 gene is represented once in the corn genome. The deduced ZRP4 polypeptide of 39,558 D is rich in leucine, serine, and ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Held BM,Wang H,John I,Wurtele ES,Colbert JT

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:d-Galactose has been shown to have toxic and growth inhibitory effects in plants. When applied at levels of 50 millimolar to tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L. cv Xanthi) leaf discs galactose caused a rapid increase in ethylene production during the first 2 days of incubation, followed by a rapid return to the basal level ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Philosoph-Hadas S,Aharoni N

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has long been known that leaf senescence can be induced in many plant species by detaching leaves and placing them in the darkness. It recently has been shown that entire Arabidopsis plants placed in the darkness are not induced to senesce, as judged by visible yellowing and certain molecular markers. Here, we show...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Weaver LM,Amasino RM

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starch, total amylolytic and phosphorylase activities were determined in lentil cotyledons during the first days of germination. Several independent criteria show that the amylolytic activity is due mainly to an amylase of the alpha type. Starch is degraded slowly in the first days; during this time, alpha- and beta-a...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Tárrago JF,Nicolás G

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trehalose, an alpha,alpha-diglucoside, induced a rapid blackening and death of shoot tips of Cuscuta reflexa (dodder) cultured in vitro. The onset of toxic symptom was delayed if any of the several sugars which support the in vitro growth of Cuscuta was supplied with trehalose. The rate of trehalose uptake or its accu...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Veluthambi K,Mahadevan S,Maheshwari R

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon illumination of dark-grown maize seedlings (5 days old) with incandescent light, there occurred a nearly simultaneous increase, after a certain lag period, in the activities of enzymes engaged in the C(4) pathway and the Calvin-Benson cycle. The light-induced biosynthesis of chlorophyll (a and b) precedes the inc...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Kobayashi H,Asami S,Akazawa T

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine transport by tobacco cells (Nicotiana tabacum L. var. Xanthi) cultured on liquid B-5 medium was examined.Transport was linear with time or amount of tissue and had a pH optimum of 4.5. Cysteine transport over a wide concentration range was biphasic. The isotherm, for descriptive convenience, was divided into ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Harrington HM,Smith IK

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large proton leak not coupled to ATP synthesis (slip) occurs at alkaline pH through the chloroplast ATP synthase (Y. Evron, M. Avron [1990] Biochim Biophys Acta 1019: 115-120). The involvement of the ATP synthase [gamma]-subunit in the regulation of proton conductance was analyzed by measuring the effect of thiolalk...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Evron Y,Pick U

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Zea mays L., addition of glucose to the induction medium has no effect on the induction of nitrate reductase during the initial 3 hours either in root tips (0-10 mm) or mature root sections (25-35 mm). With longer times, higher levels of enzyme activity are recovered from both root segments when glucose is present ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Aslam M,Oaks A

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysthathionine [gamma]-synthase (CS), an enzyme involved in methionine biosynthesis, was purified from an acetone powder prepared from wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). After several chromatographic steps and radiolabeling of the partially purified enzyme with sodium cyanoboro[3H]hydride, a single polypeptide with a molec...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Kreft BD,Townsend A,Pohlenz HD,Laber B

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gametophore-over-producing mutants of the moss, Physcomitrella patens, when grown in liquid culture export high levels of cytokinin into their culture medium. The cytokinin produced by these mutants is postulated to account for their peculiar phenotype, that of mosses treated with exogenous cytokinin. N(6)-(Delta(2)-i...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Wang TL,Horgan R,Cove D

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phototransformation of phytochrome in lettuce seeds (Lactuca sativa L. var. Grand Rapids) was examined by testing germination responses of seeds irradiated at various temperatures. Temperature variations from 0 to 50 C had no influence on the germination of partially hydrated seeds (about 15% water content) irradiated...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Vidaver W,Hsiao AI

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wood of trees is formed from carbon assimilated in the photosynthetic tissues. Determining the temporal dynamics of carbon assimilation, subsequent transport into developing wood, and incorporation to cell walls would further our understanding of wood formation in particular and tree growth in general. To investigate ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Mahboubi A,Linden P,Hedenström M,Moritz T,Niittylä T

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane transporters play a central role in many cellular processes that rely on the movement of ions and organic molecules between the environment and the cell, and between cellular compartments. Transporters have been well characterized in plants and green algae, but little is known about transporters or their evol...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Chan CX,Zäuner S,Wheeler G,Grossman AR,Prochnik SE,Blouin NA,Zhuang Y,Benning C,Berg GM,Yarish C,Eriksen RL,Klein AS,Lin S,Levine I,Brawley SH,Bhattacharya D

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplast thylakoid protein phosphatase activity was measured using (32)P-labeled histone as an exogenous substrate and an assay of the (32)Pi released involving formation of a phosphomolybdate complex and organic extraction. The activity was liberated from wheat (Triticum aestivum) thylakoids by washing the membran...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Sun G,Bailey D,Jones MW,Markwell J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were conducted to determine whether sucrose synthase (SuSy) was phosphorylated in the elongation zone of maize (Zea mays L.) leaves. The approximately 90-kD subunit of SuSy was 32P-labeled on seryl residue(s) when excised shoots were fed [32P]orthophosphate. Both isoforms of SuSy (the SS1 and SS2 proteins)...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Huber SC,Huber JL,Liao PC,Gage DA,McMichael RW Jr,Chourey PS,Hannah LC,Koch K

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil flooding increased 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic (ACC) acid oxidase activity in petioles of wild-type tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) plants within 6 to 12 h in association with faster rates of ethylene production. Petioles of flooded plants transformed with an antisense construct to one isoform of an ACC ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： English PJ,Lycett GW,Roberts JA,Jackson MB

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To survive environmental challenges, plants have evolved tightly regulated response networks, including a rapid and transient general stress response (GSR), followed by well-studied stress-specific responses. The mechanisms underpinning the GSR have remained elusive, but a functional cis-element, the rapid stress resp...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Bjornson M,Benn G,Song X,Comai L,Franz AK,Dandekar AM,Drakakaki G,Dehesh K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starch production in all plants examined is altered by mutations of isoamylase-type starch-debranching enzymes (DBE), although how these proteins affect glucan polymer assembly is not understood. Various allelic mutations in the maize (Zea mays) gene sugary1 (su1), which codes for an isoamylase-type DBE, condition dis...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Dinges JR,Colleoni C,Myers AM,James MG

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The light dependence of D1 phosphorylation is unique to higher plants, being constitutive in cyanobacteria and algae. In a photoautotrophic higher plant, Spirodela oligorrhiza, grown in greenhouse conditions under natural diurnal cycles of solar irradiation, the ratio of phosphorylated versus total D1 protein (D1-P in...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Booij-James IS,Swegle WM,Edelman M,Mattoo AK

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue distributions of dhurrin [p-hydroxy-(S)-mandelonitrile-beta-d-glucoside] and of enzymes involved in its metabolism have been investigated in leaf blades of light-grown Sorghum bicolor seedlings. Enzymic digestion of these leaves using cellulase has enabled preparations of epidermal and mesophyll protoplasts...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Kojima M,Poulton JE,Thayer SS,Conn EE

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for isolating guard cell protoplasts (GCP) from mechanically prepared epidermis of Vicia faba is described. Epidermis was prepared by homogenizing leaves in a Waring blender in a solution of 10% Ficoll, 5 millimolar CaCl(2), and 0.1% polyvinylpyrrolidone 40 (PVP). Attached mesophyll and epidermal cells were r...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Kruse T,Tallman G,Zeiger E

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The halotolerant alga Dunaliella bardawil accumulates very large amounts of [beta]-carotene when exposed to high light intensity. The accumulated [beta]-carotene is concentrated in small, oily globules within the chloroplast and has been suggested to protect the alga against photodamage by high irradiation (A. Ben-Amo...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Katz A,Jimenez C,Pick U

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norway spruce (Picea abies) forests suffer periodic fatal attacks by the bark beetle Ips typographus and its fungal associate, Ceratocystis polonica. Norway spruce protects itself against fungal and bark beetle invasion by the production of terpenoid resins, but it is unclear whether resins or other defenses are effec...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Hammerbacher A,Schmidt A,Wadke N,Wright LP,Schneider B,Bohlmann J,Brand WA,Fenning TM,Gershenzon J,Paetz C

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small GTP-binding proteins regulate diverse processes in eukaryotic cells such as signal transduction, cell proliferation, cytoskeletal organization, and intracellular membrane trafficking. These proteins function as molecular switches that cycle between "active" and "inactive" states, and this cycle is linked to the ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Vernoud V,Horton AC,Yang Z,Nielsen E

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the midribs of untreated traps of Dionaea muscipula are frozen in liquid nitrogen after rapid closure, they contain significantly less ATP than those frozen before closure. Exogenous ATP causes a significant increase in the rate of mechanically stimulated trap closure. Illuminated traps close faster than those ke...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Jaffe MJ

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant cells rely on plasmodesmata for intercellular transport of small signaling molecules as well as larger informational macromolecules such as proteins. A green fluorescent protein (GFP) reporter and low-pressure microprojectile bombardment were used to quantify the degree of symplastic continuity between cells of ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Crawford KM,Zambryski PC

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00