Tomato plants harboring the ripening-inhibitor (rin) mutation yield fruits that fail to ripen. Additionally, rin plants display enlarged sepals and loss of inflorescence determinacy. Positional cloning of the rin locus revealed two tandem MADS-box genes (LeMADS-RIN and LeMADS-MC), whose expression patterns suggested roles in fruit ripening and sepal development, respectively. The rin mutation a...

The essential oil content in the inflorescence of lavender (Lavandula angustifolia Mill.) cultivated in the mid hills of Uttarakhand was found to be 2.8 % based o n the fresh weight. The oil was an alysed by capillary GC and GC– MS. Thirty seven constituents, representing 97.81 % of the o il were identified. The major components of the oil were linalyl acetate (47.56 %), linalool (28.06 %), lav...

Arabidopsis inflorescence stems develop a vascular pattern similar to that found in most dicots. The arrangement of vascular tissues within the bundle is collateral, and vascular bundles in the stele are arranged in a ring. Although auxin has been shown to be an inducer of vascular differentiation, little is known about the molecular mechanisms controlling vascular pattern formation. By screeni...

Heterogeneity in root-zone temperature both vertically and horizontally may contribute to the uneven vegetative and reproductive growth often observed across vineyards. An experiment was designed to assess whether the warmed half of a grapevine root zone could compensate for the cooled half in terms of vegetative growth and reproductive development. We divided the root system of potted Shiraz g...

Typha lepechinii, a new species from European Russia, is described. In terms of the external morphology, it similar to T. shuttleworthii but differs latter by shape female inflorescence, wider leaf blades and geographical distribution. Like shuttleworthii, lepechinii clearly distinct all other cattails sect. Ebracteolatae due its short male inflorescence that 2–4 times shorter than contiguous i...

Immature inflorescence with outer spathe length of 5.5 cm size collected from West Coast Tall cultivar coconut was used as the explant and rachillae bits were inoculated in Y3 media supplemented 2, 4-D (1 mg L-1). The cultures incubated dark for eight months sub-cultured into same at monthly interval. white shoot like outgrowths formed sub cultured to ½ MS fortified 1 L-1 each NAA BAP subsequen...