oleander was tested as biomonitoring plant for surfactant polluted marine aerosol. potted plants in the greenhouse were sprayed once a week for 5 weeks with seawater containing sodium dioctyl sulfosuccinate (sds) at the following concentrations: 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, 120, 250, 500 mg/l. a significant correlation was found between sds concentration in the spray and surfactant deposit on the leaves ...

Endogenous factors which determine the photosynthetic capacity of the leaf were studied in the fully expanded, primary leaves of young seedings of bean (cv. Bulgarian). Following removal of the shoot above the primary leaf node and excision of all axillary buds, the primary leaves increased in area and thickness, in chlorophyll content, in levels of soluble protein, and in the specific activity...

Four advanced breeding lines of wheat which had appeared to be resistant to stripe rust in the past years along with a susceptible variety, Bolani, were intercrossed in all combinations of a half-diallel design. Seedlings were grown in greenhouse until the first leaves fully expanded and then inoculated with two pathotypes (races) 6E134A+ and 134E148A+, separately. Days to the first pustule eru...

abstract paclobutrazol is one of the most important triazolic compounds which are used as growth retardants in some crops. in this study, the effect of application methods and concentration of paclobutrazol on plant height of tuberose and possibility of pot production was investigated. in the first experiment, tuberose bulbs were soaked in 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100 mg.l-1 paclobutrazol for 10, 20 a...

Leaf tissues of plants usually contain several types of idioblasts, defined as specialized cells whose shape and contents differ from the surrounding homogeneous cells. The spatial patterning of idioblasts, particularly of trichomes and guard cells, across the leaf epidermis has received considerable attention as it offers a useful biological model for studying the intercellular regulation of c...

In vitro regeneration of shoots from leaf explants of the Paradise tree (Melia azedarach L.) was studied. Three different portions (proximal portion, distal portion and rachis of the leaflets) of three developmental stages (folded, young still expanding and completely expanded) of leaves of 10-15 year old plants of seven genotypes were cultured on Murashige and Skoog (1962) medium (MS) suppleme...

Responses of leaf growth and leaf water relations to seasonal drought were monitored during two successive years in three cultivars (Galhosa, Espargal and Mulata) of Ceratonia siliqua L. growing in the field in southern Portugal. Leaf water relations of fully expanded leaves were characterized by pressureâ volume analysis, and morphometric measurements of petiolar xylem were made. The three cu...

Two closely related ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase small subunit (SSU) genes, SRS1 and SRS4, are transcribed at high levels in soybean plants in response to light. Transgenic petunia plants containing 5' sequences from SRS1 or SRS4 fused to the polypeptide encoding region of a neomycin phosphotransferase (NPTII) gene exhibit selectable kanamycin resistance. Deletion of three ATG codons f...