The effect of O(2) on the CO(2) exchange of detached leaves of corn (Zea mays), wheat (Triticum vulgare), oats (Avena sativa), barley (Hordeum vulgare), timothy (Phleum pratense) and cat-tail (Typha angustifolia) was measured with a Clark oxygen electrode and infrared carbon dioxide analysers in both open and closed systems.Corn leaves did not produce CO(2) in the light at any O(2) concentratio...

Chloroplast genomes (cpDNA) are highly valuable resources for evolutionary studies of angiosperms, since they are highly conserved, are small in size, and play critical roles in plants. Slipped-strand mispairing (SSM) was assumed to be a mechanism for generating repeat units in cpDNA. However, research on the employment of different small repeated sequences through SSM events, which may induce ...

Rice is becoming a model plant in monocotyledons and a model cereal crop. For better understanding of the rice plant, it is essential to elucidate the developmental programs of the life cycle. To date, several attempts have been made in rice to categorize the developmental processes of some organs into substages. These studies are based exclusively on the morphological and anatomical viewpoints...

The sesquiterpene lactone glaucolide B (1), isolated from Vernonia fruticulosa (Asteraceae), was transformed into six lactones (2-7). The structures of the products were elucidated by spectroscopic analysis. A series of solutions of compounds 1-7, at 200 microM, were tested on the germination and on the root and shoot growth of the dicotyledons Physalis ixocarpa and Trifolium alexandrinum and o...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Seedlings of monocots are much more diverse than those of other angiosperms, often with very derived character states. This makes morphological interpretation difficult. The morphology of seedlings of most of the 16 families of the Poales alliance are only incompletely known. The present study aims first to develop an unambiguous terminology for the description of monocotyle...

Chalkiness is a key determinant that directly affects the appearance and cooking quality of rice grains. Previously, Floury endosperm 2 (FLO2) was reported to be involved in formation chalkiness; however, its regulation mechanism still unclear. Here, FLO2 interaction factor 3 (OsFIF3), bHLH transcription factor, identified analyzed Oryza sativa. A significant increase chalkiness observed OsFIF3...