abstract：:Lipids are the major constituents of all membranous structures in plants. Plants possess two pathways for lipid biosynthesis: the prokaryotic pathway (i.e., plastidic pathway) and the eukaryotic pathway (i.e., endoplasmic-reticulum (ER) pathway). Whereas some plants synthesize galactolipids from diacylglycerol assembl...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Singh V,Singh PK,Siddiqui A,Singh S,Banday ZZ,Nandi AK

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HKT transporters are Na(+)-permeable membrane proteins, which mediate Na(+) and K(+) homeostasis in K(+)-depleted and saline environments in plants. Class II HKT transporters, a distinct subgroup found predominantly in monocots, are known to mediate Na(+)-K(+) co-transport in principle. Here we report features of ion ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Suzuki K,Costa A,Nakayama H,Katsuhara M,Shinmyo A,Horie T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared to planktonic species, there is little known about the ecology, physiology, and existence of benthic dinoflagellates living in sandy beach or seafloor environments. In a previous study, we discovered 13(2),17(3)-cyclopheophorbide a enol (cPPB-aE) from sand-dwelling benthic dinoflagellates. This enol had never...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yamada N,Tanaka A,Horiguchi T

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules are highly dynamic structures that control the spatiotemporal pattern of cell growth and division. Microtubule dynamics are regulated by reversible protein phosphorylation involving both protein kinases and phosphatases. Never in mitosis A (NIMA)-related kinases (NEKs) are a family of serine/threonine kin...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Takatani S,Otani K,Kanazawa M,Takahashi T,Motose H

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Root hairs expand the effective root surface to increase the uptake of nutrients and water from the soil. Here the local effects of the two major nitrogen sources, ammonium and nitrate, on root hairs were investigated using split plates. In three contrasting accessions of A. thaliana, namely Col-0, Tsu-0 and Sha, root...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Vatter T,Neuhäuser B,Stetter M,Ludewig U

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Garden asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) is a dioecious species whose male and female flowers are found in separate unisexual individuals. A region called the M-locus, located on a pair of homomorphic sex chromosomes, controls sexual dimorphism in asparagus. To date, no sex determining gene has been isolated from a...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Deng CL,Wang NN,Li SF,Dong TY,Zhao XP,Wang SJ,Gao WJ,Lu LD

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-pollinator interactions have usually been researched in flowers that have fully opened. However, some pollinators can visit flowers before full opening and contribute to fruit and seed sets. In this paper, we researched the pollination biology of flowers just starting to open in four field experiments. We observ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yamaji F,Ohsawa TA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During different environmental stress conditions, plant growth is regulated by the hormone abscisic acid (an apocarotenoid). In the biosynthesis of abscisic acid, the oxidative cleavage of cis-epoxycarotenoid catalyzed by 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (NCED) is the crucial step. The NCED genes were isolated in num...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Priya R,Siva R

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular plants have a network of vasculature in their leaves, which supplies water and nutrients and exports photoassimilates to other tissues. The vascular network is patterned during the development of leaf primordia through the induction of provascular differentiation by auxin. Arabidopsis thaliana Dof5.8, encodin...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Konishi M,Yanagisawa S

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how endophytic fungi mitigate abiotic stresses in plants will be important in a changing global climate. A few endophytes can produce phytohormones, but their ability to induce physiological changes in host plants during extreme environmental conditions are largely unexplored. In the present study, we in...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Khan AL,Waqas M,Lee IJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helwingia, a shrub or small tree of four species distributed in East Asia, has been assigned to various families, mainly Cornaceae. However, molecular analyses show that the genus belongs to its own family Helwingiaceae which is sister to Phyllonomaceae (Phyllonoma only) in the order Aquifoliales. On the basis of H. j...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Ao C,Tobe H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodesmata (PD) are intercellular connections in plants which play roles in various developmental processes. They are also found in brown algae, a group of eukaryotes possessing complex multicellularity, as well as green plants. Recently, we conducted an ultrastructural study of PD in several species of brown algae...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Terauchi M,Nagasato C,Motomura T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Petrosaviaceae is a monocotyledonous plant family that comprises two genera: the autotrophic Japonolirion and the mycoheterotrophic Petrosavia. Accordingly, this plant family provides an excellent system to examine specificity differences in mycobionts between autotrophic and closely related mycoheterotrophic plant sp...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yamato M,Ogura-Tsujita Y,Takahashi H,Yukawa T

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apogamous fern species are often difficult to distinguish from related species because of their continuous morphological variations. To clarify the genetic relationships among the members of the Dryopteris varia complex, we analyzed the nucleotide sequences of the plastid gene rbcL and the nuclear gene PgiC. We also a...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Hori K,Tono A,Fujimoto K,Kato J,Ebihara A,Watano Y,Murakami N

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MOTHER OF FT AND TFL1 (MFT)-like genes belong to the phosphatidylethanoamine-binding protein (PEBP) gene family in plants. In contrast to their homologs FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT)-like and TERMINAL FLOWER 1 (TFL1)-like genes, which are involved in the regulation of the flowering time pathway, MFT-like genes function mainl...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Tao YB,Luo L,He LL,Ni J,Xu ZF

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light- and nitrogen-use change was examined along productivity gradients in natural grasslands at Laelatu, western Estonia, both at community level and in most abundant species. Aboveground biomass (M) ranged from 341 to 503 g m(-2) in wet (W) and from 248 to 682 g m(-2) in dry (D) community. Aboveground leaf area rat...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Aan A,Lõhmus K,Sellin A,Kull O

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is vital for the establishment and function of symbiotic root nodules of legumes. Although abundant in the environment, Fe is often a limiting nutrient for plant growth due to its low solubility and availability in some soils. We have studied the mechanism of iron uptake in the root nodules of common bean to eval...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Slatni T,Ben Salah I,Kouas S,Abdelly C

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the complete nucleotide sequence of the plastid genome of the unicellular marine red alga Porphyridium purpureum strain NIES 2140, belonging to the unsequenced class Porphyridiophyceae. The genome is a circular DNA composed of 217,694 bp with the GC content of 30.3%. Twenty-nine of the 224 protein-coding...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Tajima N,Sato S,Maruyama F,Kurokawa K,Ohta H,Tabata S,Sekine K,Moriyama T,Sato N

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neotropical woody bamboos range from northern Mexico to southern Argentina and Chile. The most interesting aspect of bamboo biology is their flowering habit. The species that are the most intriguing are those that manifest a cyclic pattern of gregarious flowering after long vegetative periods. The flowering cycle has ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Guerreiro C

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hatena arenicola (Katablepharidophycota) is a single-celled eukaryote that temporarily possesses a chlorophyte alga of the genus Nephroselmis as an intracellular symbiont. In the present study, we investigated the molecular diversity of the endosymbiont Nephroselmis in a natural population of the host H. arenicola. We...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yamaguchi H,Nakayama T,Hongoh Y,Kawachi M,Inouye I

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the levels of radioactive caesium (RACs; ¹³⁴Cs and ¹³⁷Cs) in plants and soil in a grassland, 32 km northwest of the Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant, from June 2011 to October 2012. In 2011, the highest RACs levels (¹³⁴Cs + ¹³⁷Cs) in plants and in the 0-5 cm soil layer were approximately 80 kBq per kg dry w...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Terashima I,Shiyomi M,Fukuda H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduction of pollen flow can affect plant abundance and population viability and cause selection on plant mating system and floral traits. Little is known on the effect of this phenomenon in species naturally restricted to small and isolated habitats, that may have developed strategies to cope with long-term isolation...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Minuto L,Guerrina M,Roccotiello E,Roccatagliata N,Mariotti MG,Casazza G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization between crops and their wild relatives potentially threatens the genetic identity of the wild plants, particularly in the case of genetically modified crops. Only a few studies have examined the use of temporal isolation to prevent hybridization, and the indices used in those studies, (e.g., the days of ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Ohigashi K,Mizuguti A,Yoshimura Y,Matsuo K,Miwa T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carex (Cyperaceae) is one of the largest genera of the flowering plants, and comprises more than 2,000 species. In Carex, section Siderostictae with broader leaves distributed in East Asia is thought to be an ancestral group. We aimed to clarify the phylogenetic relationships and chromosomal variations within the sect...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yano O,Ikeda H,Jin XF,Hoshino T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to evaluate the behavior of zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.) and cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) under boron (B) excess. Plants were grown under greenhouse conditions in a sandy soil-peat mixture using a nutrient solution containing 0.2 (control), 10 and 20 mg L(-1) B. Visible symptoms were quantified and l...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Landi M,Remorini D,Pardossi A,Guidi L

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome numbers and karyotypes of 26 Ophiopogon species, 2 Liriope species and 5 Peliosanthes species of the family Liliaceae from Southwest China, were investigated. The study revealed a detailed picture of chromosome features and their pattern of karyotype variation in Ophiopogoneae. Karyotype asymmetry in differ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Wang GY,Meng Y,Yang YP

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature affects a cascade of ecological processes and functions of forests. With future higher global temperatures being inevitable it is critical to understand and predict how forest ecosystems and tree species will respond. This paper reviews experimental warming studies in boreal and temperate forests or tree s...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Chung H,Muraoka H,Nakamura M,Han S,Muller O,Son Y

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aim to present phylogenetic major groups within the subfamily Cyperoideae (Cyperaceae) on the basis of three molecular data sets; nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer and 5.8S ribosomal RNA region, the ribulose-1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase large subunit gene, and trnL intron and trnL-F intergeni...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Jung J,Choi HK

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of defense in plants is a complex process mediated by various signaling pathways. Promoter analysis of defense-related genes is useful to understand these signaling pathways involved in regulation. To this end, the regulation of the polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein encoding gene from Vitis vinifera L. (...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Joubert DA,de Lorenzo G,Vivier MA

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appropriate management of species of conservation concern requires designing strategies that should include genetic information as small population size and restricted geographic range can reduce genetic variation. We used AFLPs to investigate genetic variation within and among populations of the endangered narrow end...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Lopez L,Barreiro R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron transport in photosystem II (PSII) and photosystem I (PSI) was estimated in terms of chlorophyll fluorescence and changes in P700 redox, respectively, in the unicellular green alga Dunaliella salina in the presence or absence of a nitrogen source in the culture medium. In a nitrogen-containing medium, the qua...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Einali A,Shariati M,Sato F,Endo T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plants have developed certain adaptive responses to environmental stresses that cause adverse effects on growth. To identify genes involved in the adaptive mechanisms, we constructed a large population of transgenic Arabidopsis expressing rice full-length cDNAs, and performed gain-of-function screening under high-sali...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Yokotani N,Ichikawa T,Kondou Y,Iwabuchi M,Matsui M,Hirochika H,Oda K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For plant cells in the early phases of water stress exposure, the genes induced under such conditions play a key role in detecting and responding to water deficit. In this study, potato cell suspensions were used as a simplified model system to dissect early molecular changes upon low water potential. In particular, t...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Ambrosone A,Di Giacomo M,Leone A,Grillo MS,Costa A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A putative carbohydrate binding module (CBM) from strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa Duch.) expansin 2 (CBM-FaExp2) was cloned and the encoding protein was over-expressed in Escherichia coli and purified in order to evaluate its capacity to bind different cell wall polysaccharides "in vitro". The protein CBM-FaExp2 bound...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Nardi C,Escudero C,Villarreal N,Martínez G,Civello PM

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrary to extensive researches on the roles of metallothioneins (MTs) in metal tolerance of animals, the roles of plant MTs in metal tolerance are largely under investigation. In this study, we evaluated the functional role of type 2 MT from Colocasia esculenta (CeMT2b) in Zn tolerance of tobacco and E. coli cells. ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Kim YO,Lee YG,Patel DH,Kim HM,Ahn SJ,Bae HJ

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were conducted to study the dynamics of nitrous oxide (N₂O) emission from wheat varieties viz., Sonalika, HUW 468, HUW 234 and DBW 14 grown in alluvial soils of North Bank Plain Agroclimatic Zone of Assam, India. Attempts were made to find out the relationship of N₂O emission with plant morphophysiological...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Baruah KK,Gogoi B,Borah L,Gogoi M,Boruah R

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported the occurrence of triploid strains in Japanese populations of Cayratia japonica (Thunb.) Gagnep. Interestingly, the triploid and most diploid strains had variably reduced pollen fertility. Two questions emerged from this earlier work: (1) How do triploids arise, and are they allotriploids or aut...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Tsukaya H,Ishikawa N,Okada H

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of abnormal sporophytes were observed in a population of diploid Thelypteris decursive-pinnata. Most sporophytes in this population exhibited regular chromosome pairing, resulting in the formation of 30 bivalents in meiosis I; however, they produced abortive spores to various degrees. Some formed large globo...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Nakato N,Ootsuki R,Murakami N,Masuyama S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leaf hair points (LHPs) are important morphological structures in many desiccation-tolerant mosses, but study of their functions has been limited. A desert moss, Syntrichia caninervis, was chosen for examination of the ecological effects of LHPs on water retention and dew formation at individual and population (patch)...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Tao Y,Zhang YM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplasts change their intracellular positions in response to their light environment. Under darkness, chloroplasts assume special positions that are different from those under light conditions. Here, we analyzed chloroplast dark positioning using Adiantum capillus-veneris gametophyte cells. When chloroplasts were ...

journal_title：Journal of plant research

authors： Tsuboi H,Wada M

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00