Until recently, storage protein research has been largely restricted to the seed-specific reserve proteins, which provide nutrients to seedlings during their early growth. Their abundance, and the potential for improving seed nutritional quality, were early incentives to investigate seed storage proteins, and they continue to be intensively studied as a plant model for tissue-specific and devel...

Global warming is a major threat for agriculture and food safety and in many cases the negative effects are already apparent. The current challenge of basic and applied plant science is to decipher the molecular mechanisms of heat stress response (HSR) and thermotolerance in detail and use this information to identify genotypes that will withstand unfavorable environmental conditions. Nowadays ...

Gladiolus is an important marketable cut flower, especially valued for use in floral arrangements. We assessed the effects of two different methods of application (foliar spray and drench) and various concentrations of gibberellic acid (GA3), salicylic acid (SA), mival (MI) and krizatcin (KR) on vegetative and reproductive features of Gladiolus hybridus. The experiment was planned in a factoria...

Topicality of the ionizing radiation impact on organisms is conditioned by Nuclear Power Plants (NPP), releasing of various technogenic radionuclides into the environment during the operational period in different in different way. Chronic exposure of low doses of ionizing radiation to biota is an invisible, however, inevitable factor of the environment (Lu et al., 2006; Geras’kin et al., 2007;...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Plant population density (PPD) influences plant growth greatly. Functional-structural plant models such as GREENLAB can be used to simulate plant development and growth and PPD effects on plant functioning and architectural behaviour can be investigated. This study aims to evaluate the ability of GREENLAB to predict maize growth and development at different PPDs. METHODS T...

Plants that bear flowers are called Angiosperms. With around 300,000 species, they represent the largest and most successful group in the green kingdom. Flowers contain one or more female organs, or carpels, in their center. Carpels enclose the ovules, and later the seeds. Stamens, the male pollenbearing organs, surround the carpels. Sexual organs are in turn surrounded by vegetative organs (th...

Teucrium chamaedrys L. (Lamiaceae) cultivated at the Ghirardi Botanic Garden (Lombardy, Northern Italy) was studied through a four-level research approach: 1) micromorphological and 2) histochemical to describe features of glandular trichomes on vegetative reproductive organs chemical nature their secretory products, by means Light, Fluorescence Scanning Electron Microscopy; 3) phytochemical, w...

The Arabidopsis transposon Tag1 undergoes late excision during vegetative and germinal development in plants containing 35S-Tag1-GUS constructs. To determine if transcriptional regulation can account for the developmental control of Tag1 excision, the transcriptional activity of Tag1 promoter-GUS fusion constructs of various lengths was examined in transgenic plants. All constructs showed expre...