Gene redundancy in polyploid species complicates genetic analyses by making the generation of recessive, loss-of-function alleles impractical. We show that this problem can be circumvented using RNA interference (RNAi) to achieve dominant loss of function of targeted genes. Arabidopsis suecica is an allotetraploid (amphidiploid) hybrid of A. thaliana and A. arenosa. We demonstrate that A. sueci...

The green algal flagellate, Tetraselmis, is a key transition organism in the phylogeny of green algae. It has been proposed that the cell wall of Tetraselmis arose evolutionarily from the fusion of scales and that this event secondarily caused the alteration of some cytoplasmic processes such as mitotic and cytokinetic mechanisms. Ultrastructural and developmental studies of the cell wall were ...

Forekomst av gibberellinliknande substanser hos gran (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) och deras betydelse for tillvaxt och blomning Abstract ODC 161.4-174.7 Growing shoots and young seedlings of Norway spruce (Picea abies) contain at least six different gibberellin-like substances; most probably none o f them is identical to gibberellic acid or gibberellin A l. The gibberellin-like substances are all ...

Seed eluates on the germination blotter-a germinability test? Urlaknde frosubstanser p& groningspapper-ett grobarhetstest? Abstract ODC 232.318: 174.7 Aged seeds o f Scots pine left different eluate spots on the blotter in a ger-ntinator after about 24 hours' incubation. Fresh seeds do not give o f f sucl~ eluates. Anlong the leached substances were found proteins, nucleic acids, anzino acids, ...

ODC 232.318 (213) Seeds or fruits of 165 forestry species from nine tropical countries were investigated by x-ray radiography. The results showed that the method can be reliably used for detecting empty, filled, insect-attacked, mechanically damaged and diseased seeds or fruits. The applications o f x-ray radiography in tropical forestry for cone, fruit and seed collection, seed processing, nur...

ODC 174.7 Picea abies 181.521: 165.4 (455) T h e female and male flowering frequency >*'ere studied in a clone frial o j Picea abies at Roskar nine kilonzeters north-east of Stockholm. During 1971 the e s t m ~ i o n in time of pollen shedding and fenzale receptivity was recorded follo~ving daily esurnination of individual strobili. T h e data obtained revealed a great variation in fenlale as w...

We consider a Yang–Mills theory in loop space with an affine Lie gauge group. The Chapline–Manton coupling, the coupling between Yang–Mills fields and an abelian antisymmetric tensor field of the second rank via the Chern– Simons term, is systematically derived within the framework of the Yang–Mills theory. The generalized Chapline–Manton couplings, the couplings among nonabelian tensor fields ...

The ability of a recent isolate, Tetraselmis sp. CTP4, for nutrient removal from sewage effluents before and after the nitrification process under batch and continuous cultivation was studied. Biomass productivities in both wastewaters were similar under continuous conditions (0.343±0.053gL-1d-1) and nutrient uptake rates were maximal 31.4±0.4mgNL-1d-1 and 6.66±1.57mgP-PO43-L-1d-1 in WW before ...