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Plants, Volume 8, Issue 10

October 2019 - 82 articles

Cover Story: As soon as a carnivorous plant has trapped, killed, and digested its prey, the nutrients from the dead animal have to be imported into the tissue of the trap leaves. Besides carrier proteins for the absorption of ions, endocytosis enables the uptake of whole proteins. So far, this mechanism has been known only from highly evolved carnivorous plants like Droseraceae, but now it also has been found in a rather primitive family of pitcher plants, Sarraceniaceae. Furthermore, endocytotic nutrient uptake seems to be subtly connected to the exocytosis of digestive enzymes, e.g., both enzyme secretion and endocytotic nutrient uptake seem to be absent in Sarracenia purpurea, where prey degradation is predominantly performed not by the plant itself but also by mutualistic trap inquilines. View this paper.
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Articles (82)

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
12,676 Views
19 Pages

Coordination of Leaf Development Across Developmental Axes

  • James W. Satterlee and
  • Michael J. Scanlon

22 October 2019

Leaves are initiated as lateral outgrowths from shoot apical meristems throughout the vegetative life of the plant. To achieve proper developmental patterning, cell-type specification and growth must occur in an organized fashion along the proximodis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,877 Views
14 Pages

Effect of Freezing on Photosystem II and Assessment of Freezing Tolerance of Tea Cultivar

  • Yun-Long Shi,
  • Zhuo-Yu Cai,
  • Da Li,
  • Jian-Liang Lu,
  • Jian-Hui Ye,
  • Yue-Rong Liang and
  • Xin-Qiang Zheng

22 October 2019

Freezing tolerant tea cultivars are urgently needed. The tea cultivars with highly freezing tolerance showed resistance to freezing stress induced photoinhibition. Freezing sensitivity index (H) of 47 tea clonal cultivars was investigated after sever...

  • Review
  • Open Access
197 Citations
16,702 Views
16 Pages

Potassium in Root Growth and Development

  • Marek Sustr,
  • Ales Soukup and
  • Edita Tylova

22 October 2019

Potassium is an essential macronutrient that has been partly overshadowed in root science by nitrogen and phosphorus. The current boom in potassium-related studies coincides with an emerging awareness of its importance in plant growth, metabolic func...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,585 Views
13 Pages

Utilization of in Vitro Anther Culture in Spelt Wheat Breeding

  • Csaba Lantos,
  • Szandra Purgel,
  • Katalin Ács,
  • Bernadett Langó,
  • Lajos Bóna,
  • Krisztina Boda,
  • Ferenc Békés and
  • János Pauk

22 October 2019

The efficiency of in vitro anther culture was screened in a full diallel population of four spelt wheat genotypes and ten F1 hybrids. Genotype dependency was observed based on the data of embryo-like structures (ELS), green-, albino plantlets. In the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,979 Views
10 Pages

Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Plant Height Using the Maize F1 Population

  • Yong Zhang,
  • Jiyu Wan,
  • Lian He,
  • Hai Lan and
  • Lujiang Li

21 October 2019

Drastic changes in plant height (PH) are observed when maize adapt to a higher plant density. Most importantly, PH is an important factor affecting maize yield. Although the genetic basis of PH has been extensively studied using different populations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,695 Views
18 Pages

20 October 2019

The limited production of bioactive essential oils in natural plants does not meet the increasing worldwide market demand. Plant cell culture technology can be used for the higher production of industrially important essential oils. In the present st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
168 Citations
8,263 Views
14 Pages

Silicon Priming Regulates Morpho-Physiological Growth and Oxidative Metabolism in Maize under Drought Stress

  • Abida Parveen,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Saddam Hussain,
  • Jaleel Asghar,
  • Shagufta Perveen and
  • Yousheng Xiong

20 October 2019

Seed priming with silicon (Si) is an efficient and easy method to regulate plant tolerance against different abiotic stresses. A pot experiment was conducted to examine the Si-mediated changes in oxidative defense and some vital physio-biochemical pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,173 Views
15 Pages

Water Regime and Nitrogen Management to Cope with Wheat Yield Variability under the Mediterranean Conditions of Southern Portugal

  • Manuel Patanita,
  • Alexandra Tomaz,
  • Tiago Ramos,
  • Patrícia Oliveira,
  • Luís Boteta and
  • José Dôres

19 October 2019

Global climate change accentuates the seasonal and interannual irregularity of temperature and precipitation of the Mediterranean climate. The consequences of this variability on wheat production are felt on its development cycle and productivity, ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,574 Views
15 Pages

Climatic Niche Shift during Azolla filiculoides Invasion and Its Potential Distribution under Future Scenarios

  • Argantonio Rodríguez-Merino,
  • Rocío Fernández-Zamudio,
  • Pablo García-Murillo and
  • Jesús Muñoz

18 October 2019

In order to prevent future biological invasions, it is crucial to know non-native species distributions. We evaluated the potential global distribution of Azolla filiculoides, a free-floating macrophyte native to the Americas by using species distrib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,674 Views
17 Pages

18 October 2019

The flavor and health benefits of coffee (Coffea spp.) are derived from the metabolites that accumulate in the mature bean. However, the chemical profiles of many C. canephora genotypes remain unknown, even as the production of these coffee types inc...

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