Classification of trichome types within species of the water fern Salvinia, and ontogeny of the egg-beater trichomesBotany - Tập 87 Số 9 - Trang 830-836 - 2009
Wilhelm Barthlott, Sabine Wiersch, Zdravko Čolić, Kerstin Koch
Species of the water fern Salvinia are well known for their extremely water-repellent floating leaves. The architecture of Salvinia surfaces is of great interest for biomimetic applications, because submersed in water, they retain air films for a long period. Knowledge of these surfaces is also important for pest control, since one species ( Salvinia molesta D.S. Mitch.) is a pantropic in...... hiện toàn bộ
Salinity-regulated expression of genes involved in GABA metabolism and signalingBotany - Tập 95 Số 6 - Trang 621-627 - 2017
Adel Zarei, Greta Z. Chiu, Guanghui Yu, Christopher P. Trobacher, Barry J. Shelp
4-Aminobutyrate (GABA) is a nonproteinogenic amino acid that functions in stress tolerance and signaling. Here, we report that salinity stress and elevated GABA levels coincided with the induction of glutamate decarboxylase 4 (GAD4) expression in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. ecotype Col-0. In-silico and microarray analysis revealed the over-representation of binding sites for WRKY and...... hiện toàn bộ
Ecology of the 2004 morel harvest in the Rocky Mountain Forest District of British ColumbiaBotany - Tập 86 Số 10 - Trang 1152-1167 - 2008
Richard S. Winder, Michael Keefer
In the Rocky Mountain Forest District of British Columbia, a dramatic series of fires occurred during 2003, setting the stage for an abundant morel crop in the following year. During 2004, the abundance of post-fire morels ( Morchella spp.) was measured and the plant community associated with morel production was characterized. Morel production averaged 6473 ± 2721 morels·ha–1... hiện toàn bộ
Comparison of four routinely used methods for assessing root colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungiBotany - Tập 90 Số 11 - Trang 1073-1083 - 2012
Xueguang Sun, Ming Tang
Quantifying the proportion of roots colonized by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) is routine work for researchers conducting AMF studies. However, in practice, the methods are always misused, with their adaptability to different conditions neglected. In this study, four frequently used methods (root segment ±, root segment estimation, grid-line intersect, and magnified intersections) wer...... hiện toàn bộ
Plant traits and taxonomy drive host associations in tropical phyllosphere fungal communitiesBotany - Tập 92 Số 4 - Trang 303-311 - 2014
Steven W. Kembel, Rebecca Mueller
The aerial surface of plants, known as the phyllosphere, represents a widespread and diverse habitat for microbes, but the fungal communities colonizing the surface of leaves are not well characterized, and how these communities are assembled on hosts is unknown. We used high-throughput sequencing of fungal communities on the leaves of 51 tree species in a lowland tropical rainforest in P...... hiện toàn bộ