Tissue specific variation of C-glycosylflavone patterns in oat leaves as influenced by the environment

A comparison is made between the flavone patterns accumulating in epidermal tissues and in the mesophyll of oat primary leaves grown in a phytotron and under field conditions. In developing leaves cultivated under standard conditions, varying patterns of two vitexin-derived O-rhamnosides and of one isovitexin O-arabinoside are produced in the basal region as the result of basal meristem activity. These patterns are tissue specific and differ quantitatively in the epidermis and the mesophyll. During the course of subsequent growth and differentiation, this pattern is constant as the compounds are moved upwards due to basipetal leaf growth. In comparison, the flavone patterns generated in the basal section of leaves grown in the field do not vary significantly. There is the additional accumulation of isoorientin O-arabinoside. Again flavone patterns are tissue specific, but in contrast to standard growth they are modified characteristically in those leaf tissues which are already morphologically differentiated. It is possible that the isovitexin moiety of the O-arabinoside is oxidized to the corresponding isoorientin derivative in the mesophyll. Moreover, field-grown leaves show a two-fold increase in flavone content in each leaf epidermis and a six-fold increase in the mesophyll when compared to the corresponding tissues of phytotron-grown leaves.     

Chymotryptic-like hydrolysis of luliberin (LH-RF) by an adenohypophyseal enzyme of high molecular weight

An enzyme that hydrolyzes the fluorogenic chymotrypsin substrate glutaryl-Gly-Gly-Phe-β-naphthylamide has been partially purified from extracts of bovine anterior pituitaries. Like chymotrypsin, this enzyme hydrolyzes the neuropeptide Luliberin (LH-RF, <Glu-His-Trp-Ser-Tyr-Gly-Leu-Arg-Pro-Gly-NH₂) at the carboxyl-side of Trp and Tyr, but it differs from the pancreatic protease by its high molecular weight, insensitivity towards OH-reactive agents and other enzymechemical parameters. It seems, however, to be identical to the “cation-sensitive neutral endopeptidase”. In the course of this study evidence has also been obtained that LH-RF is not degraded by the cystinyl-arylamidase.     

The development of mouse spinal cord in tissue culture

Summary Whole mouse embryos were grown in vitro from Theiler stage 12 (1 to 7 somites) to Theiler stages 15 and 16 (25 to 35 somites). This procedure gives experimental access to precisely staged embryos during the early period of neurogenesis. To follow the further development of neurons in vitro, fragments of spinal primordia were set up from these cultured embryos. In such cultures, the proliferation of precursor cells, the formation of postmitotic cells and, finally, the cytodifferentiation of neurons were observed. A preliminary account of this work was given at the Tissue Culture Association Meeting in 1977, and the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies Meeting in 1977 (1,2). This work was supported by Grant MT 4235 from the Medical Research Council of Canada.     

Die FormenkreiseTurdus libonyanus (A. Sm.) undTurdus olivaceus L.

Ohne Zusammenfassung     

Ommatidienraster und afferente Bewegungsintegration

Zusammenfassung Das ZNS des Grünkäfers (Chlorophanus viridis, Curculionidae) integriert gleichmäßige Folgen von Hell- und Dunkelreizen zu einer gleichsinnigen Bewegung, Wechselfolgen von Hell- und Dunkelreizen aber zu einer gegensinnigen Bewegung.Sein ZNS vermag zwei Helligkeitsreize auch über ein ungereiztes Ommatidium hinweg zu einer Bewegung zu integrieren (II,2), und zwar in allen geometrisch möglichen Richtungen (III, 1b).Die elementare physiologische Struktur für die Bewegungsperzeption besteht bei Chlorophanus aus zwei einzelnen Sehelementen.Die untere Schwelle für die Perzeption langsamer optischer Bewegungen liegt bei oder tiefer als 1,3°/min.Die Seitentendenzen, die sich in den Wahlen am Spangenglobus auswirken, erweisen sich als zuverlässiger Indikator für geometrische Interferenzbewegungen, die durch wandernde Streifenmuster kleiner Streifenbreite am Ommatidienraster entstehen.Nicht nach den Hauptrichtungen orientierte Ommatidienraster erzeugen mit Streifenmustern geringer Konstanten Interferenzbewegungen mit senkrechter Bewegungskomponente.Aus den Reaktionen auf die Helligkeitswechselfolgen ergibt sich, daß das ZNS von Chlorophanus das Gesichtsfeld seiner Fazettenaugen in der Ebene der Bewegungsintegration nicht räumlich repräsentiert. Bewegung wird repräsentiert nicht als räumliche Fortbewegung, sondern als nichtlokalisierter Vektor.