Metabolism of 5-methylthioribose to methionine.

abstract：:Caffeine synthase (CS), the S-adenosylmethionine-dependent N-methyltransferase involved in the last two steps of caffeine biosynthesis, was extracted from young tea (Camellia sinensis) leaves; the CS was purified 520-fold to apparent homogeneity and a final specific activity of 5.7 nkat mg-1 protein by ammonium sulfat...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Kato M,Mizuno K,Fujimura T,Iwama M,Irie M,Crozier A,Ashihara H

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of freezing and desiccation of spinach leaves (Spinacia oleracea L. cv Yates) on the thylakoid membranes were assessed using antibodies specific for thylakoid membrane proteins. The peripheral part of the chloroplast coupling factor ATPase (CF1) was used as a molecular marker for chemical membrane damage b...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Hincha DK,Höfner R,Schwab KB,Heber U,Schmitt JM

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sugars in the endosperm of a developing seed have many potential roles, including the supply of carbon to the developing embryo and controlling gene expression in it. Our understanding of their metabolism is, however, fragmentary and is confined to a very few species (especially Vicia spp.). To develop a quantitat...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Hill LM,Morley-Smith ER,Rawsthorne S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been considerable interest recently in the prospect of engineering crops to produce triacylglycerol (TAG) in their vegetative tissues as a means to achieve a step change in oil yield. Here, we show that disruption of TAG hydrolysis in the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) lipase mutant sugar-dependent1 (sdp...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Kelly AA,van Erp H,Quettier AL,Shaw E,Menard G,Kurup S,Eastmond PJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Root respiration associated with symbiotic fixation in soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) was estimated by four methods.Averaged over the life of the plant, the root respires 5.8 milligrams C per milligram N accumulated from fixation. When nitrogenase (C(2)H(2)) activity and root respiration were decreased by treating r...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Patterson TG,Larue TA

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, access to complete genomic sequences, coupled with rapidly accumulating data related to RNA and protein expression patterns, has made it possible to determine comprehensively how genes contribute to complex phenotypes. However, for major crop plants, publicly available, standard platforms for parallel...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Close TJ,Wanamaker SI,Caldo RA,Turner SM,Ashlock DA,Dickerson JA,Wing RA,Muehlbauer GJ,Kleinhofs A,Wise RP

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fruit ripening and abscission are associated with an ethylene burst in several melon (Cucumis melo) genotypes. In cantaloupe as in other climacteric fruit, exogenous ethylene can prematurely induce abscission, ethylene production, and ripening. Melon genotypes without fruit abscission or without ethylene burst also ex...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Périn C,Gomez-Jimenez M,Hagen L,Dogimont C,Pech JC,Latché A,Pitrat M,Lelièvre JM

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sucrose gradient profiles of polyribosomes from the coleoptilar node region of seedlings of Zea mays L. were obtained without pelleting and redispersion of the particles. Water stress caused a shift of ribosomes from the polymeric to the monomeric form, starting about 30 minutes after stress initiation and when the wa...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Hsiao TC

更新日期：1970-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrate reductase (NR)-inactivating proteins from corn roots (Wf-9 x 38-11) and rice cell suspension cultures were tested against a partially purified NR obtained from corn leaves (W64A x W182E). The corn protein was purified 921-fold and the rice protein, 1,660-fold using standard purification procedures. Approximate...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Yamaya T,Oaks A,Boesel IL

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Auxin plays a pivotal role in plant development by modulating the activity of SCF ubiquitin ligase complexes. Here, we positionally cloned Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) incurvata13 (icu13), a mutation that causes leaf hyponasty and reduces leaf venation pattern complexity and auxin responsiveness. We found that i...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Esteve-Bruna D,Pérez-Pérez JM,Ponce MR,Micol JL

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At maturity, the fruit of two early maturing orange cultivars, Hamlin and Pineapple (Citrus sinensis [L.] Osbeck), contained more ethylene and abscisic acid than the late maturing Valencia and Lamb Summer (C. sinensis [L.] Osbeck) cultivars. Ethylene (up to 95 nl/l in internal atmosphere) and abscisic (50 mug/kg dry w...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Rasmussen GK

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maize (Zea mays L.) endosperm suspension cultures are a useful model system for studying biochemical and physiological events in developing maize endosperm. In this report, sugar uptake by the cultures is characterized. Uptake of (14)C-labeled fructose and l-glucose was linear with time, while the rate of uptake of ra...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Felker FC,Goodwin JC

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact spinach (Spinacia oleracea) chloroplasts, thylakoid membranes, and inside-out or right-side-out thylakoid vesicles have been characterized by flow cytometry with respect to forward angle light scatter, right angle light scatter, and chlorophyll fluorescence. Analysis of intact chloroplasts with respect to forwa...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Schröder WP,Petit PX

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertical orientation of emerging roots typically is the first response of plants to gravity. Although root gravitropism has been studied extensively, no conclusive data on the onset of gravisensing exist. We determined the inception of gravisensitivity in flax (Linum usitatissimum) roots by clinorotating germinating s...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Ma Z,Hasenstein KH

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined cell length, mitosis, and root meristem "cuticle" in different tissues of geostimulated, red light-exposed primary roots of corn (Zea Mays, Wisconsin hybrid 64A x 22R). The examination was done at 15-minute intervals for a period of 240 minutes. Differences in cell elongation between the upper and lower si...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Shen-Miller J,McNitt RE,Wojciechowski M

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sucrose synthase (EC 2.4.1.13) of sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) fibrous roots has a distinctly different order of preference for nucleoside diphosphate substrates than that of the taproot enzyme (Silvius, Snyder 1979 Plant Physiol 64: 1070-1073). Separation and quantitation of UDP, ADP, and GDP in root extracts by high...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Silvius JE,Snyder FW,Kremer DF

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of extracts from 6300 (1.2 grams fresh weight) Phaseolus coccineus suspensors by combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry has demonstrated the presence of five C(19)-gibberellins, GA(1), GA(4), GA(5), GA(6), GA(8), and one C(20)-GA, GA(44). The major GAs present were GA(1) and GA(8). Data are discussed i...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Picciarelli P,Alpi A

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O(2) consumption by the desiccation-tolerant moss Tortula ruralis and the desiccation-intolerant Cratoneuron filicinum increased markedly during the latter stages of desiccation. ATP content of the mosses during desiccation was not correlated with O(2) consumption, but was influenced by the rate at which the mosses lo...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Krochko JE,Winner WE,Bewley JD

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diethylstibestrol (DES) inhibited noncompetitively the ATPase in the plasma membrane fraction from Avena sativa L. cv. Goodfield roots when assayed in the presence of MgSO(4) or MgSO(4) plus KCl. In the presence of MgSO(4), 7.1x10(-5) molar DES inhibited the enzyme 50%; whereas in the presence of MgSO(4) and KCl, 1.3x...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Balke NE,Hodges TK

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At low-CO2 (air) conditions, the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii acquires the ability to raise its internal inorganic carbon concentration. To study this adaptation to low CO2, cDNA clones induced under low-CO2 growth conditions were selected through differential screening. One full-length clone is 25...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Chen ZY,Burow MD,Mason CB,Moroney JV

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ORNITHINE: 2-oxoacid aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.13) has been purified over 400-fold with a total recovery of 14% from acetone powders of cotyledons of germinating squash (Cucurbita pepo, L.) seedlings. The pH optimum of the transamination between l-ornithine and alpha-ketoglutarate is 8 and the Michaelis constants are...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Lu TS,Mazelis M

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants synthesize a number of antimicrobial proteins in response to pathogen invasion and environmental stresses. These proteins include two classes of chitinases that have either basic or acidic isoelectric points and that are capable of degrading fungal cell wall chitin. We have cloned and determined the nucleotide ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Samac DA,Hironaka CM,Yallaly PE,Shah DM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The OsCPK4 gene is a member of the complex gene family of calcium-dependent protein kinases in rice (Oryza sativa). Here, we report that OsCPK4 expression is induced by high salinity, drought, and the phytohormone abscisic acid. Moreover, a plasma membrane localization of OsCPK4 was observed by transient expression as...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Campo S,Baldrich P,Messeguer J,Lalanne E,Coca M,San Segundo B

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The active transport of CO(2) in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus UTEX 625 was inhibited by H(2)S. Treatment of the cells with up to 150 micromolar H(2)S + HS(-) at pH 8.0 had little effect on Na(+)-dependent HCO(3) (-) transport or photosynthetic O(2) evolution, but CO(2) transport was inhibited by more than 90%. CO(...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Espie GS,Miller AG,Canvin DT

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a light-induced oxidative stress shifts the glutathione pool toward its oxidized form, resulting in a translational arrest of the large subunit (LSU) of Rubisco. We show here that the translational arrest of LSU is tightly coordinated with cessation of Rubisco assembly, and both processes...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Cohen I,Knopf JA,Irihimovitch V,Shapira M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BP-80 is a type I integral membrane protein abundant in pea (Pisum sativum) clathrin-coated vesicles (CCVs) that binds with high affinity to vacuole-targeting determinants containing asparagine-proline-isoleucine-arginine. Here we present results from cDNA cloning and studies of its intracellular localization. Its seq...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Paris N,Rogers SW,Jiang L,Kirsch T,Beevers L,Phillips TE,Rogers JC

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses of superoxide dismutase (EC 1.15.1.1) and glutathione reductase (EC 1.6.4.2) activities were evaluated in leaf tissue from intact cotton plants (Cotton Branch 1697) which were exposed to 75% O(2), 350 microliters per liter CO(2) for 48 hours. Soluble protein was extracted from O(2)-treated and control tissue...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Foster JG,Hess JL

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A year round study of photosynthesis and carbon isotope fractionation was conducted with plants of Opuntia phaeacantha Engelm. and Yucca baccata Torr. occurring in natural stands at elevations of 525, 970, 1450 and 1900 m. Plant water potentials and the daytime pattern of (14)CO(2) photosynthesis were similar for all ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Szarek SR

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of the quantum efficiencies of photosynthetic electron transport through photosystem II (phiPSII) and CO2 assimilation (phiCO2) were made simultaneously on leaves of maize (Zea mays) crops in the United Kingdom during the early growing season, when chilling conditions were experienced. The activities of a...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Fryer MJ,Andrews JR,Oxborough K,Blowers DA,Baker NR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In higher plants, blue light (BL) phototropism is primarily controlled by the phototropins, which are also involved in stomatal movement and chloroplast relocation. These photoresponses are mediated by two phototropins, phot1 and phot2. Phot1 mediates responses with higher sensitivity than phot2, and phot2 specificall...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Sharma S,Kharshiing E,Srinivas A,Zikihara K,Tokutomi S,Nagatani A,Fukayama H,Bodanapu R,Behera RK,Sreelakshmi Y,Sharma R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00