Heavy nitrogen (N) application to gain higher yield of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) resulted in increased production cost and environment pollution. How to diminish the N supply without losing yield and/or quality remains a challenge. To meet the challenge, we integrated and expressed a tobacco nitrate reductase gene (NR) in transgenic wheat. The 35S-NR gene was transferred into two winter cult...

Expression of nitrate reductase in Neurospora crassa requires the positive action of nit-4, a pathway-specific regulatory gene, which mediates nitrate induction. We report the molecular cloning of the nit-4 gene and present results which suggest that the nit-4 gene is constitutively expressed to yield a low-abundance 2.2-kilobase transcript. These results indicate that the nit-2 major control g...

A novel method for the preparation of (±)-methyl 1,1a,2,7b-tetrahydro-2-oxocyclopropa[c] chromene-1a-carboxylate has been developed. The cyclopropanation of methyl coumarin-3-carboxylate provided title compound in moderate yield by dropwise treatment with 1.5 equiv. of dimethylsulfoxonium methylide over 6 h. The structure of the newly synthesized compound was determined using 1H-, 13C-NMR, IR a...

Density functional theory calculations suggest that bicyclic structures of the "molybdopterin" in DMSO reductases may have an important catalytic role in oxygen atom transfer reactions.

Yuewei Sheng,† Isabel A. Abreu,*,‡,§ Diane E. Cabelli,* Michael J. Maroney,* Anne-Frances Miller,* Miguel Teixeira,*,‡ and Joan Selverstone Valentine*,†,∇ †Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States ‡Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Bioloǵica Antońio Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av. da Repub́lica, 2780-157...