We have analyzed four Nicotiana plumbaginifolia null mutants presumably affected in the heme domain of nitrate reductase. The DNA sequence of this domain has been determined for each mutant and for the wild type. Two mutations were identified as single base changes leading to, respectively, the substitution of a histidine residue by an asparagine (mutant E56) and to the appearance of an ochre s...

Both cytokinin (N6-benzyladenine [BA]) and auxin (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid [2,4-D]) stimulate the accumulation of an mRNA, represented by the cDNA pLS216, in Nicotiana plumbaginifolia suspension culture cells. The kinetics of RNA accumulation were different for the two hormones; however, the response to both was transient, and the magnitude of the response was dose dependent. Runoff trans...

 Let $R$ be a ring‎, ‎and let $n‎, ‎d$ be non-negative integers‎. ‎A right $R$-module $M$ is called $(n‎, ‎d)$-projective if $Ext^{d+1}_R(M‎, ‎A)=0$ for every $n$-copresented right $R$-module $A$‎. ‎$R$ is called right $n$-cocoherent if every $n$-copresented right $R$-module is $(n+1)$-coprese-nted‎, ‎it is called a right co-$(n,d)$-ring if every right $R$-module is $(n‎, ‎d)$-projective‎. ‎$R$...

MNDO semi-empirical SCF MO calculations are used to study the pyramidal nitrogen atom inversion and configurational equilibria in the title compounds.

Cell suspensions obtained from Nicotiana plumbaginifolia plants stably expressing the apoaequorin gene were used to analyze changes in cytosolic free calcium concentrations ([Ca(2+)](cyt)) in response to elicitors of plant defenses, particularly cryptogein and oligogalacturonides. The calcium signatures differ in lag time, peak time, intensity, and duration. The intensities of both signatures d...

Chlorate-resistant Nicotiana plumbaginifolia (cv Viviani) mutants were found to be deficient in the nitrate reductase apoprotein (NR(-)nia). Because they could not grow with nitrate as sole nitrogen source, they were cultivated as graftings on wild-type Nicotiana tabacum plants. The grafts of mutant plants were chlorotic compared to the grafts of wild type. Mutant leaves did not accumulate nitr...