Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv. Moneymaker) plants are chilling sensitive, and do not naturally accumulate glycinebetaine (GB), a metabolite that functions as a stress protectant. We reported previously that exogenous GB application enhanced chilling tolerance in tomato. To understand its protective role better, we have further evaluated various parameters associated with improved tol...

In an attempt to improve stress tolerance of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) plants, an expression vector containing an Arabidopsis C-repeat/dehydration responsive element binding factor 1 (CBF1) cDNA driven by a cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter was transferred into tomato plants. Transgenic expression of CBF1 was proved by northern- and western-blot analyses. The degree of chilling toler...

Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) plant resists water-deficit stress by shedding leaves leading to adaptive water-deficit condition. Transcriptomic, physiological, cellular, molecular, metabolic, and transgenic methods were used to study the mechanism of cassava abscission zone (AZ) cell separation under water-deficit stress. Microscopic observation indicated that AZ cell separation initiated ...

REIS, DONALD J., AND MICHEL C&NOD. Central neural reguhlion of carotid baroreceptor reflexes in the cat. Am. J. Physiol. sag(6) : m67-1279. 1965. -Reflex changes of the mean aortic blood pressure (BP) to carotid sinus stretch or carotid occlusion in anesthetized vagotomized cats were observed following ablation or electrical stimulation of brain. Decerebration produced augmentation of the depre...

Beginning with the work of Longet (1847) there has accumulated an impressive mass of evidence which indicates that the indispensable mechanism for the neural control of respiration is localized in the reticular formation of the caudal half of the medulla (Brown-Sequard, 1860; Gad and Marinesco, 1893; Bechterew, 1885; Kohnstamm, 1900; etc.). Although there have appeared sporadic assertions that ...