Participation of ornithine decarboxylase in early stages of tomato fruit development.

abstract：:4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (EC 1.13.11.27) was partially purified from barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crus-galli L.) leaves and assayed by high-performance liquid chromatography analysis of product formation or by the capture of released 14CO2. The bleaching herbicide sulcotrione [2-(2-chloro-4-methanesulfonylben...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Secor J

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endopolyploidy occurs when DNA replication takes place without subsequent mitotic nuclear division, resulting in cell-specific ploidy levels within tissues. In plants, endopolyploidy plays an important role in sustaining growth and development, but only a few studies have demonstrated a role in abiotic stress response...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Barkla BJ,Rhodes T,Tran KT,Wijesinghege C,Larkin JC,Dassanayake M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycolate oxidase (GO) has been identified in the endocyanom Cyanophora paradoxa which has peroxisome-like organelles and cyanelles instead of chloroplasts. The enzyme used or formed equimolar amounts of O(2) or H(2)O(2) and glyoxylate, respectively. Aerobically, the enzyme did not reduce the artificial electron accep...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Betsche T,Schaller D,Melkonian M

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diurnal variations in leaf water potential, diffusion resistance, relative water content, stem diameter, leaf temperature, and energy balance components were measured in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L. var. Lankart 57) during drought stress under field conditions. A plot of leaf water potential against either relative w...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Jordan WR,Ritchie JT

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new isolation procedure has resulted in an improved yield of stable 68S chloroplast ribosomes from Euglena gracilis var. bacillaris. Chloroplasts are isolated by suspending the cells in buffer I (sorbitol, 250 mm; sucrose, 250 mm; Ficoll, 2.5% [w/v]; magnesium acetate, 1 mm; bovine serum albumin, 0.01% [w/v]; mercap...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Schwartzbach SD,Freyssinet G,Schiff JA

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flacca mutant in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv Rheinlands Ruhm) was employed to examine the effects of a relatively constant diurnal water stress on leaf growth and water relations. As the mutant is deficient in abscisic acid (ABA) and can be phenotypically reverted to the wild type by applications of t...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Bradford KJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SHORT-ROOT (SHR) and SCARECROW (SCR) are required for stem cell maintenance in the Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) root meristem, ensuring its indeterminate growth. Mutation of SHR and SCR genes results in disorganization of the quiescent center and loss of stem cell activity, resulting in the cessation of root gro...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Dhondt S,Coppens F,De Winter F,Swarup K,Merks RM,Inzé D,Bennett MJ,Beemster GT

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Victorin, the pathotoxin from the host-specific pathogen, Helminthosporium victoriae, promotes the growth of coleoptile segments when given at concentrations that are high but which still show selective effects on susceptible and resistant tissue. The latent period in the growth response of both susceptible and resist...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Saftner RA,Evans ML

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed lignin content and composition in transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) lines altered in the expression of the early phenylpropanoid biosynthetic enzymes L-phenylalanine ammonia-lyase and cinnamate 4-hydroxylase (C4H). The reduction of C4H activity by antisense expression or sense suppression resulted in ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Sewalt V,Ni W,Blount JW,Jung HG,Masoud SA,Howles PA,Lamb C,Dixon RA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoprenoid biosynthesis in plant plastids occurs via the 1-deoxy-d-xylulose 5-phosphate (DXP) pathway. We used tobacco rattle virus (TRV) to posttranscriptionally silence the expression of the last two enzymes of this pathway, the IspG-encoded (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methylbut-2-enyl diphosphate synthase (HDS) and the IspH-en...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Page JE,Hause G,Raschke M,Gao W,Schmidt J,Zenk MH,Kutchan TM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytochrome wild-type gene-[beta]-glucuronidase (PHY-GUS) gene fusions were used in transgenic Arabidopsis to compare the activity levels and light regulation of the PHYA and PHYB promoters and to identify the photoreceptors mediating this regulation. In dark-grown seedlings, both promoters are 4-fold more active in s...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Somers DE,Quail PH

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchronous cell division in Euglena gracilis (strain Z) was obtained in 24-hour light cycles consisting of 10 hours of light and 14 hours of darkness; cell division was restricted to the dark period. Photosynthetic capacity was found to vary in a cyclic manner during the cell cycle, reaching a peak 2 hours before the...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Walther WG,Edmunds LN

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat treatment (37 degrees C) of transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) plants led to a reversible reduction or complete loss of transgene-encoded activities in about 40% of 10 independent transformants carrying the luciferase-coding region fused to the 355 cauliflower mosaic virus or the soybean small subunit promote...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Neumann K,Dröge-Laser W,Köhne S,Broer I

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant plasma membrane H(+)-ATPase energizes the secondary uptake of nutrients and may facilitate cell expansion by acidifying the cell wall. In yeast, Glc stimulates the accumulation of H(+)-ATPase mRNA, and the growth rate supported by various sugars is correlated with H(+)-ATPase protein abundance. Expression of...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Mito N,Wimmers LE,Bennett AB

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The duckweed Spirodela oligorrhiza was grown in sterile nutrient solutions that contained 1 mm phosphate-(32)P at various specific activities. In solutions with activities higher than 2 muc per mumole per ml, plant growth was inhibited after a time, and the physical appearance of the plants was affected. The critical ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Bieleski RL

更新日期：1968-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The esterification of methylecgonine (2-carbomethoxy-3β-tropine) with benzoic acid is the final step in the biosynthetic pathway leading to the production of cocaine in Erythoxylum coca. Here we report the identification of a member of the BAHD family of plant acyltransferases as cocaine synthase. The enzyme is capabl...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Schmidt GW,Jirschitzka J,Porta T,Reichelt M,Luck K,Torre JC,Dolke F,Varesio E,Hopfgartner G,Gershenzon J,D'Auria JC

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct and indirect mechanisms underlying the light response of stomata were studied in variegated leaves of the juvenile phase of Hedera helix L. Dose response curves of leaf conductance were measured with blue and red light in leaves kept in normal or in an inverted position. In the green portions of the leaves, the...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Aphalo PJ,Sánchez RA

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photosystem I (PSI) has been isolated from mesophyll chloroplasts of mature maize leaves. The isolated PSI (PSI-200) was used as starting material for preparing an antenna-depleted core (PSI-100). Both of these preparations appear to be quite analogous to PSI complexes isolated from other plant tissue sources, such as...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Wynn RM,Luong C,Malkin R

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in neutral sugar, uronic acid, and protein content of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) cell walls during ripening were characterized. The only components to decline in amount were galactose, arabinose, and galacturonic acid. Isolated cell walls of ripening fruit contained a water-soluble polyuronide, poss...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Gross KC,Wallner SJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The canonical pathway for isoleucine biosynthesis in plants begins with the conversion of threonine to 2-ketobutyrate by threonine deaminase (OMR1). However, demonstration of methionine gamma-lyase (MGL) activity in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) suggested that production of 2-ketobutyrate from methionine can also...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Joshi V,Jander G

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potassium citrate (10 mM, pH 6) inhibits the growth of cultured (Glycine max L.) cells when urea is the sole nitrogen source. Ureadependent citrate toxicity is overcome by three separate additions to the growth medium: (a) NH(4)Cl (20 mM); (b) high levels of MgCl(2) (10 mM) or CaCl(2) (5-10 mM); (c) low levels of NiSO...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Polacco JC

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starch accumulation and sucrose synthesis and export were measured in leaves of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) during a period of prolonged irradiance in which illumination was extended beyond the usual 14-hour day period. During much of the 14-hour day period, approximately 50% of the newly fixed carbon was distribute...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Li B,Geiger DR,Shieh WJ

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Constitutively produced extracellular pectinesterases from culture filtrates of the potato late blight fungus Phytophthora infestans were purified and characterized. One enzyme (PE II) was purified to homogeneity. Sodium dodecyl sulfate electrophoresis of the second enzyme (PE I) revealed two protein bands; there are ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Förster H,Rasched I

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we showed that acid invertase activity increased and then decreased rapidly in wounded sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas Liam.) root tissue, and that the tissue contained a heat-stable, proteinaceous inhibitor with a molecular weight of about 19,500 daltons.In response to wounding of sweet potato root tissue, i...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Matsushita K,Uritani I

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three lipoxygenase isozymes are synthesized in developing soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr. cv Williams) embryos and are found in high levels in cotyledons of mature seeds (B Axelrod, TM Cheesbrough, S Zimmer [1981] Methods Enzymol 71: 441-451). Upon germination at least two new protein species appear which are localize...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Park TK,Polacco JC

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Waxy wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) lacks the waxy protein, which is also known as granule-bound starch synthase I (GBSSI). The starch granules of waxy wheat endosperm and pollen do not contain amylose and therefore stain red-brown with iodine. However, we observed that starch from pericarp tissue of waxy wheat stained ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Nakamura T,Vrinten P,Hayakawa K,Ikeda J

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topped plants of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum), cucumber (Cucumis sativus), corn (Zea mays), carrot (Daucus carota), and peanut (Arachis hypogaea) were treated with 0.5 to 50 micromolar Ni (containing (63)Ni) in nutrient solutions. Xylem exudate was collected for 10 hours or, in the case of corn, for 20 hours at 5-...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Tiffin LO

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyridine nucleotide pools were measured in intact plastids from roots of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) during the onset of NO2- assimilation and compared with the in vitro effect of the NADPH/NADP ratio on the activity of plastidic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH, EC 1.1.1.49) from N-sufficient or N-starved roo...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Wright DP,Huppe HC,Turpin DH

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermostability of the photosynthetic apparatus of abscisic acid (ABA)-treated seedlings of barley (Hordeum vulgare) was studied by light-scattering and by fluorescence measurements of isolated chloroplasts. ABA treatment markedly decreased heat damage of the chloroplast ultrastructure; an exogenous ABA concentration ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Ivanov AG,Kitcheva MI,Christov AM,Popova LP

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germinating wheat embryos (Triticum vulgare var. Florence) synthesize proteins before the onset of DNA synthesis. The onset of DNA replication occurs at about 15 hours of germination and was shown to depend on proteins synthesized before 9 hours of germination with the use of blasticidin S, a specific inhibitor of pro...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Mory YY,Chen D,Sarid S

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00