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The changes in colour and in the pigment concentration of thetwo sides of Baccara rose petals which occur when plants aregrown under various temperature regimes, were examined. Theinner side of the petal is redder and the predominant pigmentis pelargonin whereas the outer petal surface tends to blue,and, the predominant pigment on this side is cyanin. The cyanin:pelargonin ratio on the outer side of petals increased three-foldunder the influence of low temperatures. The outer surface of petals growing for a long period underlow tempertaures was blue when compared with thered petals which had been subjected to low temperatures fora short period. The cyanin: pelargonin ratio of bluepetals was higher than that of red petals. Total pigment contentwas similar in both types of petal. Flowers grown under hightemperatures blued without a concomitant fallin the cyaninpel: argonin ratio. Examination of colour solutions in which the ratio between cyaninand pelargonin was varied revealed that the colour of the solutionbecame bluer as this ratio increased. We suggest that the blueing of Baccara rose petalsis caused primarily by a dilution of the cyanin content, butwhen the ratio between cyaniri and pelargonin increases sharply,blueing may also occur in dark flowers in whichthe total pigment content did not diminish. 相似文献
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Mechanical Aspects of Rapid Flower Opening in Asiatic Lily 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Several processes contribute to the rapid opening of Asiaticlily flowers. Opening occurs after the tepals stop increasingin length, and have reached maximum thickness. Up to day -0.5(where day 0 is time that flowers are half-open), the sepalsentirely encase the petals, and their edges are tightly claspedin deep grooves beside the petal midribs. At day -0.5 to -0.3,the petal midrib reduces in width, opening the groove and allowingthe tepals to pull apart (bud cracking). Unlockingis not complete until about day -0.15: it is not the key eventdirecting opening, but helps to sharpen its onset. The midribscontrol subsequent opening, pulling the laminae behind them.In the first 34 h of opening (dark phase),the main process is an increase in the angles the midribs makewhere they join the pedicels. During this time, the petals andsepals are only slightly curved. Subsequently through to day0.5 (the light phase), an increasingly markedcurvature of the midribs pulls the tepals further apart andcauses them to progressively reflex. By day 1 the flowers aremature and the laminae are no longer being pulled by the midribs.In studies of isolated tissue segments, we found that in thelater stages of opening there is greater cell expansion in theepidermis of the inner surfaces, contributing to the recurving.Petal expansion is accompanied by cell separation and osmoticchanges, and inhibitors of starch hydrolysis inhibit expansionof petal segments. Of the various processes operating duringlily opening, we believe that the most influential is the changein angle between midribs and pedicel, suggesting a pulvinus-likemechanism.Copyright 2000 Annals of Botany Company Flower opening, lily, mechanics, petal lock, osmotic changes, starch, epinasty 相似文献
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The Nitrogen Content of Plants and the Self-thinning Rule of Plant Ecology: A Test of the Core-skin Hypothesis 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
The core-skin hypothesis postulates that secondarilythickened plants behave energetically as an inert corecovered by an active skin, the skinbeing two-imensional, the core three-dimensional.This would explain the self-thinning or3/2 rule of plant ecology, that is, the tendencyfor log (dry weight per plant) and log (number of plants perunit area) to progress along a straight line relationship, withslope = 3/2. The hypothesis was tested as follows. Plant nitrogen contentwas used as an estimate of the mass of skin perplant, and dry weight as an estimate of the mass of the core.As plants mature the slope of the relationship between y = log(mass of nitrogen per plant) and x = log (mass of dry matterper plant) is expected to decline from an initial value of 1.0towards a final value of 0.66. The intercept of the relationshipis expected to reflect the intrinsic content of skinper unit of core. Genotypic variation in thisparameter should cause genotypic differences in the maximumattainable yield of biomass per unit area. The expectations were investigated by fitting the function y= p+qx+r exp x to 30 sets of data on plant nitrogencontent, plant weight and time in 18 different vegetables. Simplelinear regressions of y on x were fitted to more limited setsof data on weights and nitrogen contents of mature trees. Theexpectations were, with some minor exceptions, confirmed. Nitrogen, yield, plant competition, self-thinning 相似文献
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The metabolic fate of [U-14C]sucrose in suspension culturesof Catharanthus roseus cells was monitored for 96 h after thecells were transferred to fresh complete (+Pi)or to phosphate-deficient Murashige and Skoog (Pi)medium. Sucrose was hydrolysed extracellularly to glucose andfructose. The rate of uptake of sugars by the cells was 1.53times higher in +Pi culture than in Piculture. Little difference in the rate of incorporation of radioactivityinto the ethanol-soluble fraction was found between the +Piand Pi cultures during the initial 24h of culture, but after 48 h the rate in +Picultures was higher than that in Pi cultures.Incorporation of radioactivity into ethanol-insoluble macromoleculeswas always significantly higher in the cells in +Picultures than in those in Pi cultures.The results suggest that Pi strongly affects the utilizationof sugars by cultured plant cells through the stimulation oftransport of sugars as well as through the activation of metabolism. Catharanthus roseus, Madagascar periwinkle, suspension culture, inorganic phosphate, sucrose, transport, metabolism 相似文献
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Mitochondria from 1-day-old bean cotyledons were isolated bya slow isolation procedure involving a wash andby a rapid procedure. The mitochondria isolatedby the rapid procedure were more tightly coupledthan those isolated by the slow procedure. Anexogenous supply of cytochrome c or NAD was shown to improvethe activity of mitochondria isolated by the slowprocedure, but not those isolated by the rapidprocedure. The phosphorylative abilities of the latter weremuch greater than the former and were retained for longer periods.It was found that there was a leakage of NAD out of the mitochondria. 相似文献
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Simulated swards of each of two selection lines of Lolium perennecv. S23 with fast and slow ratesof mature tissue respiration were establishedin growth rooms at 20/15 °C day/night temperatures and studiedover four successive regrowth periods of 46, 30, 26 and 53 daysduration. The slow line outyielded the fast,both in harvestable shoot (above a 5 cm cut) and in root andstubble. Its advantage increased over successive regrowth periodsto 23 per cent (total biomass). Gas analysis measurements onthe entire communities (including roots), during the final regrowthperiod, showed that the slow line had a 2234per cent lower rate of dark respiration per unit dry weight.This enabled it to maintain its greater mass of tissue for thesame cost in terms of CO2 efflux per unit ground area. Halfthe extra dry weight produced by the slow line,relative to the fast, could be attributed to itsmore economic use of carbon. The rest could be traced to a 25per cent greater tiller number which enabled the slowline to expand leaf area faster (though not at a greater rateper tiller), intercept more light and fix more carbon, earlyin the regrowth period. Lolium perenne L., ryegrass, respiration, maintenance respiration, tiller production, simulated swards, canopy photosynthesis, carbon economy 相似文献
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The growing outer epidermal wall: design and physiological role of a composite structure 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Kutschera U 《Annals of botany》2008,101(5):615-621
Background: The cells of growing plant organs secrete an extracellular fibrouscomposite (the primary wall) that allows the turgid protoplaststo expand irreversibly via wall-yielding events, which are regulatedby processes within the cytoplasm. The role of the epidermisin the control of stem elongation is described with specialreference to the outer epidermal wall (OEW), which forms a tensileskin. Novel Facts: The OEW is much thicker and less extensible than the walls ofthe inner tissues. Moreover, in the OEW the amount of celluloseper unit wall mass is considerably greater than in the innertissues. Ultrastructural studies have shown that the expandingOEW is composed of a highly ordered internal and a diffuse outerhalf, with helicoidally organized cellulose microfibrils inthe inner (load-bearing) region of this tension-stressed organwall. The structural and mechanical backbone of the wall consistsof helicoids, i.e. layers of parallel, inextensible cellulosemicrofibrils. These plywood laminates containcrystalline cables orientated in all directionswith respect to the axis of elongation (isotropic material).Cessation of cell elongation is accompanied by a loss of order,i.e. the OEW is a dynamic structure. Helicoidally arranged extracellularpolymers have also been found in certain bacteria, algae, fungiand animals. In the insect cuticle crystalline cutin nanofibrilsform characteristic OEW-like herringbone patterns. Conclusions: Theoretical considerations, in vitro studies and computer simulationssuggest that extracellular biological helicoids form by directedself-assembly of the crystalline biopolymers. This spontaneousgeneration of complex design without an intelligent designerevolved independently in the protective skin ofplants, animals and many other organisms. 相似文献
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Welbaum G.E.; Bian D.; Hill D.R.; Grayson R.L.; Gunatilaka M.K. 《Journal of experimental botany》1997,48(3):643-654
The freezing tolerance of many plants, such as pea (Pisum sativum),is increased by exposure to low temperature or abscisic acidtreatment, although the physiological basis of this phenomenonis poorly understood. The freezing tolerance of pea shoot tips,root tips, and epicotyl tissue was tested after cold acclimationat 2C, dehydration/rehydration, applications of 104M abscisic acid (ABA), and deacclimation at 25C. Tests wereconducted using the cultivar Alaska, an ABA-deficientmutant wil, and its wildtype. Freezinginjury was determined graphically as the temperature that caused50% injury (T50) from electrical conductivity. Endogenous ABAwas measured using an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay,and novel proteins were detected using 2-dimensional polyacrylamidegel electrophoresis. The maximum decrease in T50 for root tissuewas 1C for all genotypes, regardless of treatment. For Alaskashoot tips and epicotyl tissue, exogenous ABA increased thefreezing tolerance by 1.5 to 4.0C, while coldtreatment increased the freezing tolerance by 7.5 to14.8C. Cold treatment increased the freezing toleranceof shoot tips by 9 and 15C for wiland wild-type, respectively. Cold acclimationincreased endogenous ABA concentrations in Alaskashoot tips and epicotyls 3- to 4-fold. Immunogold labeling increasednoticeably in the nucleus and cytoplasm of the epicotyl after7 d at 2C and was greatest after 30 d at the time of maximumfreezing tolerance and soluble ABA concentration. Cold treatmentinduced the production of seven, three, and two proteins inshoot, epicotyl, and root tissue of Alaska, respectively.In Alaska shoot tissue, five out of seven novelproteins accumulated in response to both ABA and cold treatment.However, only a 24 kDa protein was produced in wiland wild-type shoot and epicotyl tissues aftercold treatment. Abscisic acid and cold treatment additivelyincreased the freezing tolerance of pea epicotyl and shoot tissuesthrough apparently independent mechanisms that both resultedin the production of a 24 kDa protein. Key words: Pisum sativum, cold acclimation, immuno-localization 相似文献
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Developmental control of xylem hydraulic resistances and vulnerability to embolism in Fraxinus excelsior L.: impacts on water relations 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Welbaum G.E.; Bian D.; Hill D.R.; Grayson R.L.; Gunatilaka M.K. 《Journal of experimental botany》1997,48(3):655-663
The freezing tolerance of many plants, such as pea (Pisum sativum),is increased by exposure to low temperature or abscisic acidtreatment, although the physiological basis of this phenomenonis poorly understood. The freezing tolerance of pea shoot tips,root tips, and epicotyl tissue was tested after cold acclimationat 2C, dehydration/rehydration, applications of 104M abscisic acid (ABA), and deacclimation at 25C. Tests wereconducted using the cultivar Alaska, an ABA-deficientmutant wil, and its wildtype. Freezinginjury was determined graphically as the temperature that caused50% injury (T50) from electrical conductivity. Endogenous ABAwas measured using an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay,and novel proteins were detected using 2-dimensional polyacrylamidegel electrophoresis. The maximum decrease in T50 for root tissuewas 1C for all genotypes, regardless of treatment. For Alaskashoot tips and epicotyl tissue, exogenous ABA increased thefreezing tolerance by 1.5 to 4.0C, while coldtreatment increased the freezing tolerance by 7.5 to14.8C. Cold treatment increased the freezing toleranceof shoot tips by 9 and 15C for wiland wild-type, respectively. Cold acclimationincreased endogenous ABA concentrations in Alaskashoot tips and epicotyls 3- to 4-fold. Immunogold labeling increasednoticeably in the nucleus and cytoplasm of the epicotyl after7 d at 2C and was greatest after 30 d at the time of maximumfreezing tolerance and soluble ABA concentration. Cold treatmentinduced the production of seven, three, and two proteins inshoot, epicotyl, and root tissue of Alaska, respectively.In Alaska shoot tissue, five out of seven novelproteins accumulated in response to both ABA and cold treatment.However, only a 24 kDa protein was produced in wiland wild-type shoot and epicotyl tissues aftercold treatment. Abscisic acid and cold treatment additivelyincreased the freezing tolerance of pea epicotyl and shoot tissuesthrough apparently independent mechanisms that both resultedin the production of a 24 kDa protein. Key words: Pisum sativum, cold acclimation, immuno-localization 相似文献
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Concentration-dependent changes of perceived odor quality 总被引:9,自引:7,他引:2
In order to assess the dependence of perceived odor qualityon odorant concentration, we studied 21 subjects. For eightsubjects all possible pairs from a pool of six odorants at threedecimal dilutions were presented, and subjects were requestedto state whether members of the pair were qualitatively similaror different It was found that while pairs withthe same odorant at identical concentrations were judged similarin >90% of the cases by all subjects, scores went down to10% similar judgements in some cases when thesame odorant was presented at a 100-fold concentration difference.Large time-invariable differences were found among subjectsand among odorants. For the additional 13 subjects, all possiblepairs from a pool of four odorants at three decimal dilutionswere presented. Subjects were instructed to state whether membersof the pair were qualitatively same or different,and were also requested to rank the degree of difference ona visual analogue scale. Results for this group were, in general,similar to the results of the former group of subjects and goodagreement between the two tasks was found. The results suggestthat variations in olfactory stimulus magnitude may be perceivedas quality differences, as previously shown for vision and audition. 相似文献
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Healthy tomato plants were shown to contain high levels of RNA-dependentRNA polymerase activity, mainly in a soluble form,but also partly in a bound form. The boundenzyme was solublized by EDTA treatment. Both forms of enzymewere partially purified and characterized. The ion and pH optimaof the two forms were identical at all stages of purification.Both enzymes exhibited uridylyl transferase activity, whichmade up 35 per cent of total incorporation. Infection with tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) increased activityof soluble enzyme by twofold, and of solubilizedbound enzyme by less than twofold. Uridylyl transferaseactivity was also increased by infection. General propertiesof the enzymes were unaltered by infection with one exception:in the presence of TMV RNA as added template, the solubleenzyme from infected plants incorporated 3H-UTP into productswith the electrophoretic properties and RNase sensitivitiesexpected for replicative form and replicative intermediate ofTMV. Soluble enzyme from healthy plants, and solublized bound enzyme from either healthy or infectedplants did not synthesize these products. The soluble and solubilized boundenzymes behaved differently on ion-exchange chromatography.Under the conditions used, soluble enzyme didnot bind to the column, whereas solublized boundenzyme did. No differences in chromatographic behaviour werefound between enzymes from healthy or infected plants. Withboth soluble and solublized boundenzymes, the uridylyl transferase activity co-chromatographedwith the polymerase activity. Tomato, Lycopersicon esculentum, RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, tobacco mosaic virus, tobacco mosaic virus replicase 相似文献
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Voigt Jurgen; Liebich Ines; Hinkelmann Bettina; Kierss Michael 《Plant & cell physiology》1996,37(1):91-101
To identify precursors of the insoluble glycoprotein frameworkof the Chlamydomonas cell wall, a polyclonal antibody was raisedagainst the mixture of polypeptides released from the insolublewall fraction by chemical deglycosylation. This antibody preferentiallycross-reacted with a 150 kDa salt-soluble cellwall glycoprotein. The conclusion that this 150 kDaglycoprotein is a putative precursor of the insoluble cell wallfraction was corroborated by the results of pulse-chase experimentsand by experiments with antibodies raised against the 150kDa salt-soluble glycoprotein and against its 100 kDadeglycosylation product, respectively. Whereas the antibodyagainst the 150 kDa glycoprotein preferentiallyrecognized carbohydrate side chains, the antibody against its100 kDa deglycosylation product was found to have essentiallythe same specificity towards glycosylated and deglycosylatedcell wall components as the antibody against the deglycosylationproducts of the insoluble wall fraction. Furthermore, the antibodyagainst the deglycosylated, insoluble wall fraction recognizedalmost the same set of peptide fragments derived by V8 proteasetreatment from the 150 kDa salt-soluble cell wallglycoprotein and its 100 kDa deglycosylation product, respectively,as the antibody against the 100 kDa deglycosylated cell wallpolypeptide. (Received April 22, 1994; Accepted November 21, 1995) 相似文献
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Subjects from Britain and America were tested on their skillat applying the taste adjectives sweet, sour,salty, and bitter to clearly distinguishablesolutions of sucrose, citric acid, NaCl and quinine sulphate,respectively. The main error that occurred was calling citricacid bitter while the tendency to call quininesulphate sour was not so common; this is the wellknown sour-bitter confusion. A sour-salty confusion was alsonoted as well as a tendency to call citric acid sweet.All these confusions were rectified by mere definition usingstandards. Skill at applying taste adjectives was not alwaysfound to be consistent over time. More errors occurred at lowersolution concentrations, even though stimuli were clearly distinguishable;indistinguishability of stimuli may account for some confusionsin other studies.
*Present address: Department of Psychology, University of Bristol,Bristol BS8 1HH, England. 相似文献
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The effects of the foliar application of phytocidal concentrationsof 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid (MCPA) on change in totaldry weight, and in available carbohydrate (starch,total and reducing sugars), totalnitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, and magnesium of topsand roots of tomato plants have been followed over a periodof 14 days following spraying. There were two main treatmentsnutrient(nutrient supply to roots continued after spraying) and water(distilled water only supplied to roots after spraying) andwater (distilled water only supplied to rootsafter spraying)the sub-treatments consisting of MCPAversus no-MCPA for each of the main treatments.Twelve different times of sampling were used. In analysing the present data, the quantity residualdry weight (total dry weight less available carbohydrate),which was originally introduced by Mason and Maskell as a basisof reference for analyses of plant organs in short-period experimentsnot involving appreciable growth, has been used as an estimateof the permanent structure of plant growth. This new use ofthe residual dry weight basis has brought outimportant features which were obscured when the data were leftin their primary form (as percentages of total dry weight oramounts per plant). Growth, as measured by increase in residual dry weight,was greatly inhibited by 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acidshortly after spraying, in both the presence and the absenceof nutrient. In the presence of 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid, netassimilation rate (estimated as rate of increase in total dryweight per gram residual dry weight of the tops)was greatly diminished while uptake of total nitrogen and ofP2O5 (estimated as increase in total nitrogen or of P2O5 ofthe whole plant per day per 1 g. residual dry weightof the roots) appeared to undergo a similar but much smallerdiminution. It seemed probable, however, that in the presenceof MCPA a larger proportion of the carbohydrate actually formedwas utilized for synthesis of aminoacids and protein. In the plant as a whole there was no evidence of actual depletionof available carbohydrate as a result of MCPAtreatment, this fraction showing a steady increase in all treatmentsthroughout the experiment. The rate of increase was, however,much reduced by MCPA treatment. The tops presentedmuch the same picture as the whole plant, but for the rootsthe situation was quite different. While the roots of the no-MCPAplants and also of the MCPA-water plants showeda steady increase in available carbohydrate, those of the MCPA-nutrientplants rose only very slightly (from the initial value of 8mg. per plant to about 10 mg.) during the first 2 days, andthen in the next 2 days declined to a value (about 6 mg.) belowthe initial and remained at this low level for the rest of theexperiment. It is suggested that the phytocidal effect of 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyaceticacid in the presence of nutrient may be due to depletion ofthe available carbohydrate supplies in the roots,which is shown to be brought about, in part, by reduced transportfrom the tops, and partly by the relatively greater utilizationof the carbohydrate present. These results offer an explanationfor the facts that plants showing vigorous growth are more easilykilled by MCPA and that perennial plants, particularly thosewith storage tissues in their roots, are more resistant. Further,they suggest the useful practical application that MCPA treatmentshould be given when the carbohydrate reserves of the rootsare at a minimum. For perennial plants, conditions might beexpected to be optimal for the application of MCPA in late spring,at a time when the first flush of growth is slowingdown and before any appreciable new reserves of carbohydratehave been accumulated. It was also shown that 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid preventedthe net synthesis of starch, but still permitted an appreciablenet formation of sucrose. 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid appeared to have no effecton the uptake of potassium, calcium, or of magnesium. The lackof effect on potassium is contrasted with the previous observationby Rhodes, Templeman, and Thruston (1950) that sub-lethal concentrationsof MCPA, applied over a relatively long period to the rootsof tomato plants, specifically depressed the uptake of potassium. 相似文献
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Diurnal laminar reorientation was followed in solar-trackingleaves of Lavatera cretica L. under simulated conditions. Asimulated sun was moved over the lamina in a 180?arc in the vertical plane of the mid-vein, at an angular velocityof 15? h1 in a regime of 12-h photoperiods. In one groupof plants the petioles of the experimental leaves were arrangedto face sunrise, while in the other they werearranged to face sunset. At sunrise,the laminae in both groups, which were inclined towards theanticipated direction of sunrise, changed theirelevation towards the rising sun, resulting inprogressive reduction in the angle of incidence (AI) of lighton the laminar surface (AI= differential between laminar andsolar elevation). As a result, laminar and solarelevation converged, and laminar reorientation gradually ceased,until the solar elevation had passed the normalto the laminar surface (AI=0?). laminar reorientation was thenresumed, but its direction was reversed to follow the directionof solar reorientation. During most of the remainingday, laminar elevation (LE) trailed that of thesun by an average of 11?-14?. Laminar reorientationthen anticipated sunset by starting to slow down60 to 90min in advance. During the 12-h dark period, the laminareoriented towards the anticipated direction of the subsequentsunrise. The time-course of nocturnal reorientationwas qualitatively different in the two groups of experimentalplants. The time-course of diurnal phototropism under naturaland simulated conditions is analysed and compared and differencesand similarities between them are discussed. Key words: Diurnal phototropism, solar-tracking, vectorial excitation 相似文献
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SINGH N; SINGH S N; SRIVASTAVA K; YUNUS M; AHMAD K. J; SHARMA S C.; SHARGA A N 《Annals of botany》1990,65(1):41-44
Five Gladiolus cultivars, namely Aldebaran, BrightEye, Illusion, Manisha andManmohan, were exposed to 1 and 2 µg l1sulphur dioxide to test their relative-sensitivity toleranceto the pollutant Plants were fumigated experimentally for 2h daily Foliar injury symptoms were observed first in Manishafollowed by Aldebaran and Illusionat the higher dose Photosynthetic pigments and leaf extractpH were significantly decreased, particularly in Manishaand Illusion Overall disturbances in the plantmetabolism due to SO2 treatment led to retarded growth of plants,as evident from decreased shoot length and phytomass valuesThe order of sensitivity of the five Gladiolus cultivars toSO2 was as follows, with the greatest first Manisha, Illusion,Aldebaran, Bright Eye, Manmohan Cultivars, Gladiolus, sensitivity, sulphur dioxide, tolerance 相似文献
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Plant Morphology: The Historic Concepts of Wilhelm Troll, Walter Zimmermann and Agnes Arber 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Recent molecular systematic and developmental genetic findingshave drawn attention to plant morphology as a discipline dealingwith the phenotypic appearance of plant forms. However, sincedifferent terms and conceptual frameworks have evolved overa period of more than 200 years, it is reasonable to surveythe history of plant morphology; this is the first of two paperswith this aim. The present paper deals with the historic conceptsof Troll, Zimmermann and Arber, which are based on Goethe'smorphology. Included are contrasting views of unity anddiversity, position and process, and morphologyand phylogeny, which, in part, are basic views of currentplant morphology, phylogenetic systematics and developmentalgenetics. Wilhelm Troll established the type conceptand the principle of variable proportions. Hehas provided the most comprehensive overview of the positionalrelations of plant forms. Agnes Arber started from the universaldynamics of life and attempted to describe all structures asprocesses. She paid attention to repetitive branching,differential growth, and parallelism.As a result she has recently been rediscovered by developmentalbotanists. Walter Zimmermann rejected any metaphysical influenceon plant form and instead called for objective procedures. Hewas mainly interested in phylogenetic character transformationand the reconstruction of genealogical lines.Guided by the example of flower-like inflorescences, a futurepaper will deal with functional and developmental constraintsinfluencing plant forms. Recent morphological concepts (trialectical,continuum/fuzzy, processmorphology) will be discussed and related to currentmorphological and developmental genetic research. Copyright2001 Annals of Botany Company Plant form, plant morphology, natural philosophy, homology, phylogeny, Goethe, Troll, Arber, Zimmermann, typology, character transformation, differential growth, complementarity 相似文献
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Continuous flooding of the soil (flooded treatment)gave best growth of IR-8 variety of rice whereas soil drainedfor 4 weeks and then flooded for 8 (drained and floodedtreatment) resulted in poorest growth and chlorotic plants.Plants grown in the continuously drained soil (drainedtreatment) and those in the soil flooded for 4 weeks and thendrained for 8 (flooded and drained treatment)showed intermediate growth. There were no differences in therelative water content of plants growing in the various treatments.Analyses of plant tissues showed that a consideration of therelative concentration of Fe, Mn, and P in the shoots is mostclosely related to the performance of rice under various culturalconditions. An increase in the concentration of Fe in the planttissues following flooding was correlated with the best growth(flooded treatment) unless it was accompaniedby high level of Mn (as in the drained and floodedtreatment) which may have proved toxic, e.g. by interferencewith Fe metabolism as was evidenced by chlorosis. Measurementsof oxidation-reduction potentials, oxygen diffusion rates, andthe concentration of exchangeable and soluble Fe and Mn in thesoils have shown that the drained and floodedtreatment caused the most extreme reducing conditions. Floodingaccompanied by the development of extreme reducing conditionsled to a greater accumulation of Mn in the shoots (drainedand flooded treatment) whereas flooding accompanied bythe maintenance of oxidizing conditions (floodedtreatment) resulted in a lower uptake of Mn. Growth of riceplants for 4 weeks in the drained soil did not fit them forthe reduced conditions which developed during subsequent flooding(drained and flooded treatment). 相似文献
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Mycorrhizal Response of Two Tomato Genotypes Relates to their Ability to Acquire and Utilize Phosphorus 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
The purpose of this study was to determine how a plant's responseto colonization by mycorrhizal fungi relates to its abilityto acquire and utilize phosphorus for growth and reproduction.Two tomato genotypes previously found to be either responsive(LA1709) or unresponsive (large cherry)to mycorrhizal colonization during early vegetative growth wereexamined in detail. Plants were grown at four levels of addedphosphate or with mycorrhizal inoculum. Vegetative and reproductivegrowth, phosphorus uptake and root length density were measuredduring the course of plant development. Mycorrhizal symbiosissignificantly increased above-ground dry mass, root length,phosphorus content and yield under low phosphorus conditionsin LA1709, while it had less effect on these characteristicsin large cherry. When uninfected, however, LA1709grew and reproduced poorly unless high amounts of phosphoruswere added to the soil, while large cherry grewwell under very low phosphorus conditions. This was becauselarge cherry had significantly higher root lengthdensities than LA1709, enabling plants from thisgenotype to explore more soil volume and acquire greater amountsof phosphorus when grown without mycorrhizal fungi in low phosphorussoil. Large cherry also had higher phosphorususe efficiency and allocated a greater proportion of phosphorusto reproduction when uninfected than LA1709. Itappears traits that affect a plant's ability to acquire andutilize phosphorus efficiently for growth and reproduction canalso affect its response to mycorrhizal colonization in tomato.Copyright1998 Annals of Botany Company. Tomato,Lycopersicon esculentum,mycorrhiza,Glomus etunicatum,phosphorus, reproduction, lifespan. 相似文献
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Evidence that the synthesis of GA3 is involved in the growthof floral orga'ns of Pharbitis nil is presented. GAs in floralorgans at different developmental stages were surveyed usingTLC followed by the bioassay with two dwarf rice seedlings,Tanginbozu and Waito-C. The amountof GAs in the petal and stamen increased rapidly after the petalemerged from calyx, reached a maximum 12 hr before anthesis,then declined markedly thereafter. The GA content in the calyxremained unchanged before and after anthesis, and that in thepistil increased after anthesis. Pharbitis flowers containedat least two active GAs, one of which was probably GA3, theother appeared to be GA19. GA3 was detected in relatively largeamounts in both the petal and stamen during their rapid elongation.In the calyx, which showed little increase in fresh weight duringrapid flower growth, GA9 was the dominant GA. Exogenously suppliedGA3 promoted elongation of sections in excised young filaments.Sucrose was necessary for definite growth promotion by GA3.GA19 had little effect on filament elongation, and IAA was ratherinhibitive. (Received July 29, 1972; ) 相似文献