Meseguer et al. recent study presented trends in adult leisure time and workplace physical activity in the Región de Madrid autonomous community of Spain between 1995 and 2008. Their results highlight a slight fall in levels of leisure time physical activity and an especially interesting increase in the proportion of men and womenwho engage in no leisure time physical activity at all. Currently...

The genus Avena contains five different chloroplast genomes, I-V. A physical map of chloroplast (ct) DNA of Avena sativa (type I chloroplast genome) was constructed using three restriction endonucleases, PstI, SalI and SmaI. This genome is ca. 135.5 kbp in size, and contains two inverted repeats of ca. 22.5 kbp each, separated by a large (ca. 79.0 kbp) and small (ca. 12.5 kbp) single copy regio...

Treatment of living protoplasts from the Avenia coleoptile with enzymes and chemicals has provided new information about the external surface of the plasma membrane. Treatments with selected detergents and polyene antibiotics indicate that little sterol is present. The lysis of protoplasts in carboxymethyl-RNase which is enzymatically almost inactive provides strong evidence that the lysis prev...

Suninwary. When C14 carboxyl in(loleacetic aci(d (IAA) is transporLe l through Avena coleoptile sections a fraction of the activity becomes bound. The nature of this bound IAA has been investigated. Upon extraction with solvents and chromatography a substance having the RF of IAA in 4 solvents was detected. No evidence could be found for the formation of indoleacetyl conjugates. In pea stem sec...

A method has been developed whereby the second positive phototropism can be observed separately from the first positive and negative phototropic responses which also occur in oat coleoptiles. Although the second positive phototropic response has often been referred to as the base response, photoreception for it is shown to occur mainly in the apical 3 mm of the coleoptile. The Bunsen-Roscoe rec...

Three different invertases are found in the developing internodes of oat (Avena sativa cv. Victory). Two soluble invertases (I and II) are separable on diethylaminoethylcellulose and Sephadex columns. They are further distinguished by their kinetic constants, heat stability, and differences in stability and apparent activity optima in response to pH treatments. Relative activities of the two so...

In this research foliar anatomy of seven species of Avena are studied under the light microscope and the scanning electron microscope (SEM). This study includes seven species, namely, A. barbata, A. clauda, A. eriantha, A. fatua, A. ludoviciana, A. sativa and A. wiestii. Different anatomical characters sush as number of bulliform cells, mesophyll thickness, midrib, number of vascular bundles fr...

It has been repeatedly observed since early times that if stems from some of our common woody plants are girdled, adventitious roots may be formed above the girdle. Although this regeneration phenomenon may result in part from an interruption of food transport, recent evidence indicates that the regeneration is controlled by hormones w^hich are transported in the phloem. The greater part of the...