Molecular cloning, recombinant gene expression, and antifungal activity of cystatin from taro (Colocasia esculenta cv. Kaosiung no. 1).

abstract：:Short-term applications of very high concentrations of 1-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) to expiants from flower stalks of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L. cv. Samsun) induced flower-bud regeneration to the same extent as longer or continuous incubation on lower concentrations. The maximum number of flower buds per explant ...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Smulders MJ,Visser EJ,Croes AF,Wullems GJ

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：MAIN CONCLUSION:ST1 and ST6 are possibly involved in primary and lateral root and symbiotic nodule development, but only ST6 participates in the interaction with hemibiotrophic fungi. Specific tissue (ST) proteins have been shown to be involved in several processes related to plant nutritional status, development, and ...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Albornos L,Casado-Del-Castillo V,Martín I,Díaz-Mínguez JM,Labrador E,Dopico B

更新日期：2021-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Phi thickenings, bands of secondary wall thickenings that reinforce the primary wall of root cortical cells in a wide range of species, are described for the first time in the epiphytic orchid Miltoniopsis. As with phi thickenings found in other plants, the phi thickenings in Miltoniopsis contain highly aligned cellul...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Idris NA,Collings DA

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：MAIN CONCLUSION:Gene expression variations in response to fertilization between Physalis and Solanum might play essential roles in species divergence and fruit evolution. Fertilization triggers variation in fruit development and morphology. The Chinese lantern, a morphological novelty derived from the calyx, is formed ...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Gao H,Li J,Wang L,Zhang J,He C

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Homogeneous populations of developing microspores and pollen from anthers of lily (Lilium longiflorum Thumb.) and tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) show a continuous production of biomass, reaching a maximum in young pollen. The rate of RNA synthesis was 460 fg · h(-1) in young binucleate cells, 138 fg · h(-1) in late bi...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Schrauwen JA,de Groot PF,van Herpen MM,van der Lee T,Reynen WH,Weterings KA,Wullems GJ

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of Lemna minor in darkness is log-linear, at a much reduced rate compared to growth in white or red light. This rate of frond production in darkness is stimulated by kinetin, yeast extract, and thiamine either in green plants transferred directly from the light or in plants which had been grown in the dark ...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Frick H,Mohr H

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants are able to pre-stress their tissues in order to actuate their organs. Here, we demonstrate with two tissue types of the secondary xylem of conifers (normal wood and compression wood of spruce (Picea abies)) that either tensile or compressive stresses can develop in the longitudinal direction during the swellin...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Burgert I,Eder M,Gierlinger N,Fratzl P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of growth retardants, 4-hydroxy-5-isopropyl-2-methylphenyltrimethylammonium chloride-1-piperidine carboxylate (AMO-1618 or AMO) and 2-chloroethyltrimethylammonium chloride (CCC), applied with and without gibberellic acid (GA3), on β-[(3)H]alanine uptake and leakage from pea (Pisum sativum L.) and betacyani...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Fabijan DM,Dhindsa PP,Reid DM

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeotic changes played a considerable role during the evolution of flowers, but how floral homeotic mutants initially survive in nature has remained enigmatic. To better understand the evolutionary potential of floral homeotic mutants, we established as a model system Stamenoid petals (Spe), a natural variant of Caps...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Ziermann J,Ritz MS,Hameister S,Abel C,Hoffmann MH,Neuffer B,Theissen G

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MAIN CONCLUSION : [EtPy][Br] is more reactive toward lignin than toward the PSs in wood cell walls, and [EtPy][Br] treatment results in inhomogenous changes to the cell wall's ultrastructural and chemical components. The effects of the ionic liquid 1-ethylpyridinium bromide ([EtPy][Br]), which prefers to react with li...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Kanbayashi T,Miyafuji H

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extension rate of the first inflorescence node of Arabidopsis was measured during light/dark or continuous light exposure and was found to exhibit oscillations which showed a circadian rhythmicity. Decapitation induced a strong inhibition of stem extension. Subsequent application of IAA restored growth and the ass...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Jouve L,Gaspar T,Kevers C,Greppin H,Degli Agosti R

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzoic acids are precursors of xanthone biosynthesis which has been studied in cell cultures of Hypericum androsaemum (Hypericaceae) and Centaurium erythraea (Gentianaceae). In both cell cultures, methyl jasmonate induces the intracellular accumulation of a new xanthone. Under these inductive conditions, feeding expe...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Abd El-Mawla AM,Schmidt W,Beerhues L

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin gene expression is upregulated during hypoxia. To determine whether the induction occurs via similar mechanisms that have been proposed for other hypoxically induced proteins, barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) aleurone layers were treated with various agents that interfere with known components of signal transduc...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Nie X,Durnin DC,Igamberdiev AU,Hill RD

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polarity of germinating single-celled spores of the fern Ceratopteris richardii Brogn. is influenced by gravity during a time period prior to the first cellular division designated a "polarity-determination window". After this window closes, control of polarity is seen in the downward (with respect to gravity) mig...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Edwards ES,Roux SJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An autopolyploid that contains more than two sets of the same chromosomes causes apparent alterations in morphology, development, physiology and gene expression compared to diploid. However, the mechanisms for these changes remain largely unknown. In the present study, cytological observations of mature embryos and gr...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Li X,Yu E,Fan C,Zhang C,Fu T,Zhou Y

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conductivity changes in the medium of cultured soybean (Glycine max L.) cells were shown to be strictly correlated with nitrate uptake and growth of the cultures. A continuous record of the conductivity was used as a simple and reliable method of determining specific growth stages and concomitant peaks in the activiti...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Hahlbrock K,Ebel J,Oaks A,Auden J,Liersch M

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine monoclonal antibodies to membrane antigens were generated by immunization with a crude cellular membrane preparation from suspension-cultured cells of Nicotiana glutinosa L. From a panel of thirteen monoclonal antibodies, seven were found to be directed against antigens present on the plasma-membrane by immunof...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Norman PM,Wingate VP,Fitter MS,Lamb CJ

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：MAIN CONCLUSION:Nocturnal transpiration, through its circadian control, plays a role in modulating daytime transpiration response to increasing evaporative demand, to potentially enable drought tolerance in wheat. Limiting plant transpiration rate (TR) in response to increasing vapor pressure deficit (VPD) has been sug...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Tamang BG,Schoppach R,Monnens D,Steffenson BJ,Anderson JA,Sadok W

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The moss Fontinalis antipyretica, an aquatic bryophyte previously described as desiccation-intolerant, is known to survive intermittent desiccation events in Mediterranean rivers. To better understand the mechanisms of desiccation tolerance in this species and to reconcile the apparently conflicting evidence between d...

journal_title：Planta

authors： de Carvalho RC,Branquinho C,da Silva JM

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light-grown dwarf peas were disbudded except for a single lateral bud, then transferred to darkness at 24° C. During the dark period the seedlings were irradiated daily for 5 or 7 min with R or FR. The buds exposed to R developed into shoots faster than those irradiated with FR. The R effect was FR reversible, and the...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Khudairi AK,Johnnykutty AT,Agarwal S

更新日期：1971-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membranes from the buds of Pisum sativum L. contain a protein kinase which is activated 5- to 15-fold by micromolar levels of calcium. Best calcium activations were found with light-membrane fractions, and on density gradients these band at a similar position to the plasma membrane. Other heavier membranes, however, a...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Hetherington AM,Trewavas A

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：MAIN CONCLUSION:Isolation of high-quality RNA, including miRNA, from microscopic woody apple bud meristem using laser capture microdissection-based method. It is often challenging to study the expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) or genes in less accessible inner tissues of tree species rich in polyphenols or polysaccharid...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Verma S,Gautam V,Sarkar AK

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is concluded from (14)C labelling kinetics as well as from enzyme analysis that formation of malate and aspartate from glycerate-3P via carboxylation of P-enolpyruvate occurs in isolated photosynthesizing spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) chloroplasts. Carbon incorporation into both dicarboxylic acids was about 1% of ...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Scheibe R,Beck E

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), which uses both rabbit polyclonal and mouse monoclonal antibodies to phytochrome, has been adapted for quantitation of phytochrome in crude plant extracts. The assay has a detection limit of about 100 pg phytochrome (<1 fmol of monomer) and can be completed within 10 h. No...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Shimazaki Y,Cordonnier MM,Pratt LH

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rbcS1, 2 and 3 genes of Phaseolus vulgaris are identical in coding sequence and we have studied their expression using gene-specific probes derived from their 3' non-coding regions. The genes differ in their relative levels of expression but show only minor qualitative differences in their regulation. Transcripts ...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Sawbridge TI,Knight MR,Jenkins GI

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：MAIN CONCLUSION:A novel method for culturing ovules of Gossypium barbadense allowed in vitro comparisons with Gossypium hirsutum and revealed variable roles of microtubules in controlling cotton fiber cell expansion. Cotton fibers undergo extensive elongation and secondary wall thickening as they develop into our most ...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Pierce ET,Graham BP,Stiff MR,Osborne JA,Haigler CH

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When fed with [(14)C] phenylalanine in the light, xylem tissues isolated from poplar stems were able to incorporate part of the radioactivity into both the guaiacyl and the syringyl residues of lignins. In the dark, only syringyl units were integrated into the polymer whereas the guaiacyl residues remained unlabeled.W...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Grand C,Ranjeva R,Boudet AM,Alibert G

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) phloem fibers elongate considerably during their development and intrude between existing cells. We questioned whether fiber elongation is caused by cell tip growth or intercalary growth. Cells with tip growth are characterized by having two specific zones of cytoplasm in the cell tip, on...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Ageeva MV,Petrovská B,Kieft H,Sal'nikov VV,Snegireva AV,van Dam JE,van Veenendaal WL,Emons AM,Gorshkova TA,van Lammeren AA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In dark-grown soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) seedlings, exposing the roots to water-deficient vermiculite (psi(w)=-0.36 MPa) inhibited hypocotyl (stem) elongation. The inhibition was associated with decreased extensibility of the cell walls in the elongation zone. A detailed spatial analysis showed xyloglucan endotr...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Wu Y,Jeong BR,Fry SC,Boyer JS

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic electron transport around photosystem (PS) I is believed to play a role in generation of ATP required for adaptation to stress in cyanobacteria and plants. However, elucidation of the pathway(s) of cyclic electron flow is difficult because of low rates of this electron flow relative to those of linear photosynt...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Howitt CA,Cooley JW,Wiskich JT,Vermaas WF

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00