Narcissus tazetta var. chinensis M.Roem. (Chinese Narcissus) is a traditional and famous flower in China, its corona shows transition from green to yellow with the opening of flowers, which great ornamental value. To investigate molecular mechanism color-forming Chinese Narcissus, this study, MYB gene was screened transcriptome by bioinformatics analysis methods, named NtMYB9. The expression le...

The protein complement of chloroplasts, prochromoplasts, chromoplasts, and mitochondria of the daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) has been investigated comparatively by gel electro­ phoresis. Mitochondria do not share common proteins with plastids. On the other hand, there is a broad overlap of the protein complement of the three plastid types investigated, in spite of their different fine st...

Recently several complete cDNAs encoding the Narcissus tazetta lectins (NTL) were cloned. The sequence analyses of the cloned DNAs reveal that there are at least three unidentical positive clones for NTLs. The primary structure of the three NTL clones contains a mature polypeptide consisting of 105 amino acids and a C-terminal peptide extension beyond the C-terminal amino acids Thr-Gly. There a...

Self-pollination results in significantly lower seed set than cross-pollination in tristylous Narcissus triandrus. We investigated structural and functional aspects of pollen-pistil interactions and ovule-seed development following cross- and self-pollination to assess the timing and mechanism of self-sterility. Ovule development within an ovary was asynchronous at anthesis. There were no signi...

The monophyletic Eurasian clade of Amaryllidaceae was analyzed using plastid ndhF and rDNA ITS sequences for 33 and 29 taxa, respectively; all genera were represented by at least one species. Both maximum parsimony and Bayesian analysis were used on each data set and the combined data. Both sequence matrices resolve the Central and East Asian tribe Lycorideae as sister to the Mediterranean-cent...