Color and chirality: carotenoid self-assemblies in flower petals.

abstract：:Gas chromatographic-mass spectroscopic evidence is presented for the presence of arachidonic acid ((all-Z)-5,8,11,14-eicosatetraenoic acid) in virgin wheat-germ oil. The amount of arachidonic acid in wheat-germ oil, determined as methyl ester using gas chromatographic detection, was quantified with reference to a stan...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Janistyn B

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes representative of, and related to, the pentose phosphate pathway, glycolysis, and the tricarboxylic acid cycle have been demonstrated in supernatant and lamellar fractions of Anabaena cylindrica cultured in the presence of atmospheric nitrogen, ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate. Nitrogen-fixing and ammonia-assimil...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Batt T,Brown DH

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No phytochrome can be detected spectrophotometrically in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr. cv. Mandarin) cell suspensions grown in darkness. White light from a tungsten filament lamp and a band of far-red light have been found to induce the appearance of phytochrome in them. Red light failed to bring about phytochrome i...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Tanada T

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rice MKRN is a member of the makorin RING finger protein gene (MKRN) family, which encodes a protein with a characteristic array of zinc-finger motifs conserved in various eukaryotes. Using non-radioactive in situ hybridization, we investigated the spatio-temporal gene expression pattern of rice MKRN during embryogene...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Wadekar HB,Sahi VP,Morita EH,Abe S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of α-galactosidase, β-mannosidase and α-mannosidase were determined in extracts from the endosperm and from the embryo of fenugreek seeds at different stages of germination. Endosperm homogenates contained little or no activity of the above enzymes in the early stages of germination, before the reserve ...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Grant Reid JS,Meier H

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：MAIN CONCLUSION:The present review discusses not only advances in coconut tissue culture and associated biotechnological interventions but also future research directions toward the resilience of this important palm crop. Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) is commonly known as the 'tree of life'. Every component of the palm c...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Nguyen QT,Bandupriya HD,López-Villalobos A,Sisunandar S,Foale M,Adkins SW

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) seed formation there was an active period of lipid biosynthesis between 12 and 28 days after flowering (DAF). The maximum in-vitro acyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) thioesterase activities (EC 3.1.2.14) were found at 15 DAF, preceding the largest accumulation of lipid in the seed....

journal_title：Planta

authors： Martínez-Force E,Cantisán S,Serrano-Vega MJ,Garcés R

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have efficient water-transporting vascular networks with a self-recovery function from embolism, which causes fatal discontinuity in sap flow. However, the embolism-refilling process in xylem vessel is still unclear. The water-refilling processes in the individual xylem vessels of excised Arabidopsis roots were...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Lee SJ,Hwang BG,Kim HK

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hahb-4 is a member of Helianthus annuus (sunflower) subfamily I of HD-Zip proteins. Transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana plants constitutively expressing this gene exhibit a strong tolerance of water stress in concert with morphological defects and a delay in development. In order to obtain a drought-tolerant phenotype wit...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Cabello JV,Dezar CA,Manavella PA,Chan RL

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature chromoplasts from daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) flowers, although devoid of thylakoid structures, contain immunologically detectable alpha-subunits of ATP-synthase (H(+)-transporting ATP phosphohydrolase; EC 3.6.3.14). To show the presence of the entire functional protein complex, chromoplast membrane pr...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Morstadt L,Gräber P,De Pascalis L,Kleinig H,Speth V,Beyer P

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. mutant delayed-dehiscence2-2 (dde2-2) was identified in an En1/Spm1 transposon-induced mutant population screened for plants showing defects in fertility. The dde2-2 mutant allele is defective in the anther dehiscence process and filament elongation and thus exhibits a male-sterile...

journal_title：Planta

authors： von Malek B,van der Graaff E,Schneitz K,Keller B

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differential expression of PSII genes was investigated in mesophyll and bundle-sheath cells of Flaveria trinervia, a dicotyledonous C4 plant of the NADP-malic enzyme type. A comprehensive immunoblot analysis showed that three extrinsic proteins of the water-splitting complex (10, 16 and 23 kDa) are selectively dep...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Höfer MU,Santore UJ,Westhoff P

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gibberellic acid (GA3) stimulates isocitrate lyase activity of the endosperm during germination of castor bean seeds. Isocitrate lyase from castor bean was purified and an antibody to it was prepared from rabbit serum. This antibody was used to measure the amounts of isocitrate lyase-mRNA using an in vitro translation...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Martin C,Northcote DH

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gravitropic plant growth is due to gravistimulated asymmetric extension rates of the affected flanks of the graviresponding organ. Differential growth of the upper and lower flanks (UFs, LFs) of graviresponding plant organs may in principle be achieved by various biochemical and/or biophysical asymmetries. The gravist...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Edelmann HG

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of appropriate reference genes is crucial to normalization of gene expression data and prevention of biased results in qRT-PCR studies. This study is the first attempt to systematically compare potential reference genes to detect the most constitutively expressed reference genes for accurate normalizatio...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Mehdi Khanlou K,Van Bockstaele E

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：MAIN CONCLUSION:Resistant Lactuca spp. genotypes can efficiently modulate levels of S-nitrosothiols as reactive nitrogen species derived from nitric oxide in their defence mechanism against invading biotrophic pathogens including lettuce downy mildew. S-Nitrosylation belongs to principal signalling pathways of nitric o...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Tichá T,Sedlářová M,Činčalová L,Trojanová ZD,Mieslerová B,Lebeda A,Luhová L,Petřivalský M

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：MAIN CONCLUSION:Circular RNAs (circRNAs) identification, expression profiles, and construction of circRNA-parental gene relationships and circRNA-miRNA-mRNA ceRNA networks indicate that circRNAs are involved in flag leaf senescence of rice. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a class of 3'-5' head-to-tail covalently closed no...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Huang X,Zhang H,Guo R,Wang Q,Liu X,Kuang W,Song H,Liao J,Huang Y,Wang Z

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The enhancement by indoleacetic acid (IAA) of (36)Cl(-) uptake into Avena coleoptile sections was used to study the effects of a hormone on a membrane-controlled phenomenon. Compared to sections in phosphate buffer only, Cl(-) content of the cells increases 15 min after addition of IAA; the promotion is seen only with...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Rubinstein B,Light EN

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sieve tubes mediate the long-distance transport of nutrients and signals between source and sink organs of plants. To detect mobile phloem proteins that are differentially distributed in source and sink organs of Cucurbita maxima, we used both one-dimensional gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and matrix-assisted laser de...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Kehr J,Haebel S,Blechschmidt-Schneider S,Willmitzer L,Steup M,Fisahn J

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vacuolar pH of individual cells of the epidermis of intact leaves of Commelina communis L. has been determined using pH sensitive microelectrodes. The results show that the pH of the guard cells increases by approximately 0.5 units during stomatal opening. The changes in vacuolar pH mirror the changes in vacuolar ...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Penny MG,Bowling DJ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several phosphate transporters (PTs) that belong to the Pht2 family have been released in bioinformatics databases, but only a few members of this family have been functionally characterized. In this study, we found that wheat TaPHT2;1 shared high identity with a subset of Pht2 in diverse plants. Expression analysis r...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Guo C,Zhao X,Liu X,Zhang L,Gu J,Li X,Lu W,Xiao K

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：MAIN CONCLUSION:NO3- not only inhibited the reutilization of cell wall P via decreasing root cell wall pectin content and PME activity, but also hampered the P translocation from root to shoot. The rice cultivars 'Kasalath' (Kas) and 'Nipponbare' (Nip) were used to demonstrate that the nitrogen source NO3- inhibits int...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Zhu CQ,Zhu XF,Wang C,Dong XY,Shen RF

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of glutamine synthetase (GS. EC 6.3.1.2) in response to light and nitrogen (NO 3 (-) , NH 4 (+) ) was studied in the organs (roots, hypocotyl, cotyledonary whorl) of the Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) seedling. Although GS activity was found to be mainly (> 80%) located in the whorl where it increased...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Elmlinger MW,Mohr H

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maltose is the predominant form of carbon exported from the chloroplast at night. Plants that lack either the chloroplast maltose transporter or disproportionating enzyme 2 (DPE2, EC 2.4.1.25) have excess maltose in leaves. We confirmed that DPE2 is not associated with the chloroplast in Arabidopsis thaliana. Using no...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Lu Y,Steichen JM,Weise SE,Sharkey TD

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Warm white' fluorescent light inhibited the elongation of potato sprouts and reduced the rate at which reserve materials in the mother tuber were mobilized. The evidence indicated that the influence of light on mobilization was independent of light effects on the magnitude of the 'sink' for translocates in the sprout...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Morris DA

更新日期：1967-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have led to the identification and characterization of specific, high-affinity binding sites for a hepta-beta-glucoside elicitor in soybean. A survey of plant species for elicitor-binding activity reveals that among the plants tested, the hepta-beta-glucoside elicitor is only recognized by plants belo...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Côté F,Roberts KA,Hahn MG

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study has been made of plastids in the root meristem of Colchicum autumnale. These organelles contain simultaneously deposits of starch, lipid, and a crystalline material, probably protein. Two types of internal membrane are present within the plastid. One appears to be concerned with the transport of material acros...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Burgess J

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isotope analysis of the biochemical fractions isolated quantitatively from young and mature leaves of Bryophyllum daigremontianum Berger have been carried out before and after a dark period of accumulation of organic acids. The mature leaf is enriched in (13)C compared to the young leaf. The δ(13)C values of the diffe...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Deleens E,Garnier-Dardart J

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some botanical aspects of cell-free protein synthesizing systems from cereal embryos have been investigated. The composition of the starting material determines both the stability and translation fidelity of the cell-free extracts. The active components of the extracts originate exclusively from the primary axes. Cont...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Peumans WJ,Carlier AR,Caers LI

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Senescence of barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv. Carina) primary foliage leaves was induced by transfer of the plants into darkness for 2 d. Under these conditions senescence was characterized by a light-reversible decline in the efficiency of photosystem II, and in chlorophyll and protein contents. To isolate senescence-...

journal_title：Planta

authors： Kleber-Janke T,Krupinska K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00