A cDNA-AFLP approach was used to identify transcript and/or genes specifically expressed in response to drought in tea. Drought was artificially induced and whole genome transcript profiling was done at three different stages-6 days before wilting, 3 days before wilting and at wilting stage of both tolerant and susceptible cultivars, and genetic differences was thus visualized as polymorphisms ...

Neutral sugar, free amino acid, and anthocyanin levels and vacuole/extravacuole distribution were determined for Hippeastrum and Tulipa petal and Tulipa leaf protoplasts. Glucose and fructose, the predominant neutral monosaccharides observed, were primarily vacuolar in location. Glutamine, the predominant free amino acid found, was primarily extravacuolar. gamma-Methyleneglutamate was identifie...

This paper discusses about advanced disk storage necessary for distributed systems. It briefly discusses the disk storage research and the various storage systems developed. Among them the Petal, distributed virtual disks developed at the systems research center, Digital Equipment Corporation and PersonalRaid, mobile storage for distributed and disconnected computers developed at Princeton Univ...

A petal graph is a connected graph G with maximum degree three, minimum degree two, and such that the set of vertices of degree three induces a 2–regular graph and the set of vertices of degree two induces an empty graph. We prove here that, with the single exception of the graph obtained from the Petersen graph by deleting one vertex, all petal graphs are Class 1. This settles a particular cas...

We have analyzed expression from deletion derivatives of the 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS) 5[prime]-upstream region in transgenic petunia flowers and seedlings. In seedlings, expression was strongest in root cortex cells and in trichomes. High-level expression in petals and in seedling roots was conferred by large (>500 base-pair) stretches of sequence, but was lost when s...

The analytic functions, mapping the open unit disk onto petal and oval type regions, introduced by Noor and Malik (Comput. Math. Appl. 62:2209-2217, 2011), are considered to define and study their associated close-to-convex functions. This work includes certain geometric properties like sufficiency criteria, coefficient estimates, arc length, the growth rate of coefficients of Taylor series, in...

Stigma of Crocus sativus L. (Iridaceae), commonly known as saffron, is the world’s most expensive spice and apart from its traditional value as food additive recent studies indicate its potential as antidepressant. Because saffron is expensive, using it daily to address depression may not be practical. Moreover, recent study indicated antidepressant effect of petal of Crocus sativus. As petal o...

Floral longevity (FL) is an important floral functional trait which critical for flowering plants. FL shows great diversity among angiosperms; however, there limited information on the mechanisms that influence differences in longevity, especially relationship between petal anatomical traits and longevity. We aimed to examine (1) relationships tree peony cultivars (2) characteristics of longer ...

A METHOD FOR OBTAINING A CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENT OF SOIL MOISTURE UNDER FIELD CONDITIONS A has been devised for making in situ under field conditions a continuous measurement of soil moisture. It consists of imbedding in the soil a standardized block of CaSO4 (plaster of paris). The moisture content of this material varies directly with that of the soil. Since the dielectric constant of plaster ...