abstract：:A phytostat to mass culture higher plant cells in liquid medium is described. This apparatus allowed the culture in batch, turbidostat and chemostat of 20 liters of cells. Automatic control of cell suspension growth was based on culture turbidity. Changes with time of certain cell characteristics, particularly cell re...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Bligny R

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine kinase was partially purified from wheat germ. This enzyme preparation, which was devoid of adenine phosphoribosyltransferase and nearly free of adenosine deaminase but contained adenylate kinase, rapidly phosphorylated adenosine and a cytokinin, N(6)-(delta(2)-isopentenyl)adenosine. Electrophoretic analysis...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Chen CM,Eckert RL

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the plant growth substances indoleacetic acid (IAA) and fusicoccin on the transmembrane potential of Avena coleoptile cells (at 27-29 C) were studied. Fusicoccin caused hyperpolarization of the membrane potential which started after a lag of less than 20 seconds, and which on average reached -49 mv at a...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Cleland RE,Prins HB,Harper JR,Higinbotham N

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two parental lines of Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) plus their reciprocal F(1), F(2), and backcross populations were field-tested for environmental and genetic components of leaf diffusive resistance. Leaf resistance was measured with a diffusion porometer three times each day during 6 days in August. A large,...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Roark B,Quisenberry JE

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superoxide dismutase was purified from pea (Pisum sativum L., cv. Wando) seeds and corn (Zea mays L., cv. Michigan 500) seedlings. The purified pea enzyme eluting as a single peak from gel exclusion chromatography columns contained the three electrophoretically distinct bands of superoxide dismutase characterizing the...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Giannopolitis CN,Ries SK

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATPase activity of a membrane fraction from soybean (Glycine max L.) root and callus cells, presumed to be enriched in plasma membrane, has been characterized with respect to ion stimulation, pH requirement, and nucleotide specificity. The enzyme from both sources was activated by divalent cations (Mg(2+) > Mn(2+)...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Hendrix DL,Kennedy RM

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the selectivity of movement of amino acids from source leaves to sink tissues in soybeans (Glycine max [L.] Merr. ;Wells'), (14)C-labeled serine, leucine, or lysine was applied to an abraded spot on a fully expanded trifoliolate leaflet, and an immature sink leaf three nodes above was monitored with a GM ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Housley TL,Peterson DM,Schrader LE

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants of the wilty tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum) mutant, flacca, and of the normal cultivar Rheinlands Ruhm growing under either "normal" or high humidity were used in this research. Under normal humidity, RNase activity was much higher in mutant plants in which abscisic acid (ABA) and water content were lower tha...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Puri J,Tal M

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoenolpyruvate partially inhibits the accumulation of Ca(2+) in isolated mung bean (Phaseolus aureus Roxb.) mitochondria. Succinate-supported Ca(2+) uptake is twice as sensitive to phosphoenolpyruvate inhibition as is NADH- or malate/pyruvate-supported Ca(2+) uptake. Pyruvate, atractylate, and ATP, but not ITP, r...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Graesser RJ

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elongation response elicited by incubating excised hypocotyl sections of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) in light in gibberellin (GA) can be enhanced by the addition of Cl(-), Br(-), and NO(3) (-) salts of K(+) and Na(+). Sections incubated in light in the absence of GA do not elongate in response to the addition of s...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Stuart DA,Jones RL

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Ankistrodesmus braunii, in the absence of CO(2), i.e. in CO(2)-free air or N(2), photosynthetic nitrate uptake and nitrate reduction were inhibited, especially at low pH. Under such conditions, glucose stimulated nitrate uptake and reduction to almost the same level in the pH range between 6 and 8.5. CO(2) at 0.03%...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Eisele R,Ullrich WR

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The free amino acid and ammonia pools of Azolla caroliniana were analyzed by quantitative column chromatography on columns capable of separating all of the nitrogenous constituents normally found in physiological fluids. Comparisons were made of plants containing symbiotic algae and grown on nitrogen-free media, plant...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Newton JW,Cavins JF

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ADP-glucose was found to be the primary sugar nucleotide used for glycogen synthesis by Synechococcus 6301. ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase was partially purified 12-fold from this blue-green bacterium. The enzyme was activated 8- to 25-fold by glycerate 3-phosphate. Fructose 6-phosphate, fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, 5'-a...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Levi C,Preiss J

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein bodies in the endosperm of castor bean seeds (Ricinus communis L.) contain phytin globoids and protein crystalloids embedded in an amorphous proteinaceous matrix. The protein bodies are apparently surrounded by a single membrane. The protein bodies were isolated by grinding and centrifuging in glycerol. Such i...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Tully RE,Beevers H

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of labeled indole-3-acetic acid (IAA-2-(14)C) was investigated in Parthenocissus tricuspidata crown gall callus tissue. After 48 hours incubation, 85 to 90% of the supplied IAA was taken up by the tissue, and of that taken up, about 45% was conjugated with five amino acids. The conjugates found were asp...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Feung CS,Hamilton RH,Mumma RO

更新日期：1976-11-01 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：:Photorespiration rates in tissue cultures of a C(4) plant, Portulaca oleracea, were compared to those in tissue cultures of a C(3) plant, Streptanthus tortuosus. The C(4) plant tissue cultures have one-half to one-third the photorespiration rate of the C(3) plant tissue cultures and respond to varying O(2) concentrati...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Kennedy RA

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven-day-old dark-grown bean leaves were greened under continuous light. The amount of chlorophyll, the ratio of chlorophyll a to chlorophyll b, the O(2) evolving capacity and the primary photochemical activities of Photosystem I and Photosystem II were measured on the leaves after various times of greening. The prim...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Baker NR,Butler WL

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rates of oxidation of ent-kaur-16-ene to ent-kaur-16-en-19-ol, ent-kaur-16-en-19-al, ent-kaur-16-en-19-oic acid, and ent-kaur-16-en-7alpha-ol-19-oic acid are maximal in microsomes prepared from the endosperm of immature Marah macrocarpus seeds in which the cotyledons are approximately one-half the overall length o...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Hasson EP,West CA

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rhythmic movement of excised Samanea saman pulvini incubated in H(2)O or 50 mm sucrose was monitored during extended periods of white light (cool white fluorescent, 2,000 ft-c), darkness, or alternating white light (16 hr) and darkness (8 hr). In continuous white light, the rhythm damps at an intermediate angle af...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Simon E,Satter RL,Galston AW

更新日期：1976-09-01 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：:Mildly disrupted cells of Chlamydomonas reinhardi Dangeard were incubated in a reaction medium containing glycolate, ferricyanide, and cupric ions, and then processed for electron microscopy. As a result of the cytochemical treatment, an electron opaque product was deposited specifically in the outer compartment of mi...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Beezley BB,Gruber PJ,Frederick SE

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ag(I), applied foliarly as AgNO(3), effectively blocked the ability of exogenously applied ethylene to elicit the classical "triple" response in intact etiolated peas (Pisum sativumcv. Alaska); stimulate leaf, flower, and fruit abscission in cotton (Gossypium hirsutumcv. Stoneville 213); and induce senescence of orchi...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Beyer EM

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomycin and chloramphenicol inhibit the development of the photosynthetic apparatus and enhance anthocyanin synthesis in tomato (Lycopersican esculentum, cv. Beefsteak) and red cabbage (Brassica oleracea, cv. Red Acre) seedlings. The two antibiotics do not affect the basic features of light-dependent anthocyanin ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Mancinelli AL,Yang CP,Rabino I,Kuzmanoff KM

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the four uppermost leaves of greenhouse-grown plants of Xanthium strumarium L. the content of abscisic acid per unit fresh or dry weight was highest in the youngest leaf and decreased gradually with increasing age of the leaves. Expressed per leaf, the second youngest leaf was richest in ABA; the amount of ABA p...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Raschke K,Zeevaart JA

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The water fern, Azolla caroliniana Willd., containing the symbiotic, heterocystous blue-green alga, Anabaena azollae, has been studied under various growth conditions to characterize its light-dependent production of H(2). The response of H(2) production to N(2) and C(2)H(2) and the absence of a differential effect of...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Peters GA,Evans WR,Toia RE

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrate reductase of the salt-tolerant alga Dunaliella parva could utilize NADPH as well as NADH as an electron donor. The two pyridine nucleotide-dependent activities could not be separated by either ion exchange chromatography on DEAE-cellulose or gel filtration on Sepharose 4B. The NADPH-dependent activity was not ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Heimer YM

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of Co(2+) on ethylene production by mung bean (Phaseolus aureus Roxb.) and by apple tissues was studied. Co(2+), depending on concentrations applied, effectively inhibited ethylene production by both tissues. It also strongly inhibited the ethylene production induced by IAA, kinetin, IAA plus kinetin, Ca(2+...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Lau OL,Yang SF

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of nitrogen source NO(3) (-) or NH(4) (+) on nitrogen metabolism during the first 2 weeks of germination of the rice seedling (Oryza sativa L., var. IR22) grown in nutrient solution containing 40 mug/ml N were studied. Total, soluble protein, and free amino N levels were higher in the NH(4) (+)-grown seedl...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Marwaha RS,Juliano BO

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intercellular distribution of enzymes involved in amino nitrogen synthesis was studied in leaves of species representing three C(4) groups, i.e. Sorghum bicolor, Zea mays, Digitaria sanguinalis (NADP malic enzyme type); Panicum miliaceum (NAD malic enzyme type); and Panicum maximum (phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase t...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Rathnam CK,Edwards GE

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plastocyanin and chloroplast coupling factor 1 (CF(1)) are released from spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) thylakoids during a slow freezethaw cycle. CF(1) addition increases the proton uptake of thylakoids previously frozen in sucrose concentrations of 15 mm to 100 mm. Addition of CF(1) and plastocyanin restores the pro...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Garber MP,Steponkus PL

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducing the level of endogenous ethylene in detached Shamouti oranges (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck) by means of subatmospheric pressure did not alter the rate of chlorophyll destruction and color changes during the first 8 days after harvest in the presence or absence of exogenous ethylene. Reducing the activity of eth...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Apelbaum A,Goldschmidt EE,Ben-Yehoshua S

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in lipid composition were followed as a proplastid develops into a chloroplast. Methods were devised for the isolation of developing proplastids from sections of five different ages from the same 7-day-old maize (Zea mays var. Kelvedon Glory) leaf. Electron micrographs illustrate the homogeneity of the five ty...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Leese BM,Leech RM

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The soluble proteins of C(3) and C(4) mesophyll chloroplasts and C(4) bundle sheath extracts have been analyzed by gel electrophoresis for fraction I protein. Gel scans of soluble protein from C(4) bundle sheath extracts and C(3) mesophyll chloroplasts showed typical fraction I protein peaks that could be identified b...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Huber SC,Hall TC,Edwards GE

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mercury vapor induces ethylene formation and abscission in Citrus and Coleus explants. Both responses are markedly greater in the absence of CO(2). The stimulation of these metabolically complex processes indicates that the action of mercury vapor is not consistent with the more popular conception of mercury toxicity....

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Goren R,Siegel SM

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutant strain 1073 of Lemna perpusilla is concluded to be blocked between plastoquinone and cytochrome f in the photosynthetic electron transport system. The location of the block is based on the following observations of activities in chloroplasts isolated from the mutant and wild-type plants. (a) Relative to wild ty...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Shahak Y,Posner HB,Avron M

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In immature rib segments prepared from morning-glory (Ipomoea tricolor) flower buds, the major soluble metabolite formed from tracer amounts of l-methionine-U-(14)C was S-methylmethionine (SMM). In segments of senescing ribs, (14)C was progressively lost from SMM and appeared in free methionine. Immature segments cont...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Hanson AD,Kende H

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethylene inhibited the tuberization of etiolated potato (Solanum tuberosum L. var. Red La Soda) sprout sections cultured in vitro. Carbon dioxide did not overcome the C(2)H(4) inhibition but it was required for normal tuberization. Ethylene totally prevented root formation and development. It inhibited stolon elongati...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Mingo-Castel AM,Smith OE,Kumamoto J

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant promotion in dark germination was observed when Grand Rapids lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) seeds were soaked in acetone or dichloromethane, vacuum-dried, and imbibed at 25 C. Permeation of kinetin via these organic solvents further enhanced the dark germination. Those seeds that were affected by acetone and ...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Rao VS,Braun JW,Khan AA

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cyanide and 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU) on photosynthesis and respiration of intact chlorophyllic moss (Funaria hygrometrica) spore was investigated. Thirty micromolar cyanide strongly inhibited dark respiration, was without effect on photosynthesis at high light intensities (above th...

journal_title：Plant physiology

authors： Chevallier D,Douce R

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00