Height control of potted Lilium lancifolium (Tiger lily) and L. × aurelianense (Aurelian lily) plants would improve their marketability in the garden center and extend their market season. Bulbs (16-18 cm) were treated with Concise (uniconazole) or Piccolo (paclobutrazol). Bulbs were dipped for one minute in a 0, 2, 4, 8, or 16 mg/L Concise solution or for 15 minutes in a 0, 5, 10, 20, or 40 mg...

The molecular structure of the exceptional telomeres of six plant species belonging to the order Asparagales and two species of the order Liliales was analyzed using Southern blot and fluorescence in situ hybridization. Three different situations were found, namely: i) In the two Liliales species, Tulipa australis (Liliaceae) and Merendera montana (Colchicaceae), the chromosome ends display hyb...

+'-1bl~-~~)~~-~~nlcinll minor corr(!clion~. changc!! and revisions to n prelimlnary IIlmrion which appcilrcd In the Proc. or the 12lh Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Compulirl,g (!.lilY 19110). P,lrl of the work reported here will appear in the first author's 1981 doctoral <Ij!i!lcrL"Lion to he wriUen nt Purdue Univr.rl1iLy under the direction of the second author.