Plant Growth Regulation - 65 (1-3), 2011

Plant Growth Regulation - 65 (1), 2011


Contents:


Suppression and overexpression of Lsi1 induce differential gene expression in rice under ultraviolet radiation

Chang-Xun Fang, Qing-Shui Wang, Yan Yu, Qing-Mao Li and Hai-Li Zhang, et al.


Water deficit and exogenous ABA significantly affect grape and wine phenolic composition under in field and in-vitro conditions

Leonor Deis, Bruno Cavagnaro, Ruben Bottini, Rodolfo Wuilloud and M. Fernanda Silva


Antioxidant enzymatic protection during tobacco leaf ageing is affected by cytokinin depletion

Zuzana Mýtinová, Václav Motyka, Daniel Haisel, Zuzana Lubovská and Alena Trávníčková, et al.


Role of proline and glycinebetaine pretreatments in improving heat tolerance of sprouting sugarcane (Saccharum sp.) buds

Rizwan Rasheed, A. Wahid, M. Farooq, Iqbal Hussain and Shahzad M. A. Basra


Production of psoralen by in vitro regenerated plants from callus cultures of Psoralea corylifolia L.

P. Baskaran, N. Jayabalan and J. Van Staden


Calcium can moderate changes on membrane structure and lipid composition in cowpea plants under salt stress

Francisco Valderez Augusto Guimaraes, Claudivan Feitosa de Lacerda, Elton Camelo Marques, Maria Raquel Alcântara de Miranda and Carlos Eduardo Braga de Abreu, et al.


Identification and expression analysis of genes induced by phosphate starvation in leaves and roots of Brassica napus

Feng Ren, Liang Chen, Qian-Qian Guo, Hui Zhong and Yan Wu, et al.


Heat stress screening of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) seedlings for acquired thermotolerance

Michael Gomez Selvaraj, Gloria Burow, John J. Burke, Vikas Belamkar and Naveen Puppala, et al.


Differential expression of farnesyl diphosphate synthase gene from Withania somnifera in different chemotypes and in response to elicitors

Parul Gupta, Nehal Akhtar, Shri Krishna Tewari, Rajender Singh Sangwan and Prabodh Kumar Trivedi


Alleviation of chilling-induced oxidative damage by salicylic acid pretreatment and related gene expression in eggplant seedlings

Shuangchen Chen, Liu Zimei, Jinxia Cui, Ding Jiangang and Xiaojian Xia, et al.


Overexpression of a maize dehydrin gene, ZmDHN2b, in tobacco enhances tolerance to low temperature

Xin Xing, Yukun Liu, Xiangpei Kong, Yang Liu and Dequan Li


Study of the antioxidant enzymatic system during shoot development from cultured intercalar meristems of saffron

Pedro Díaz-Vivancos, Khalid Majourhat, José Antonio Fernández, José Antonio Hernández and Abel Piqueras


Identification of candidate genes involved in responses of Arabidopsis to polychlorinated biphenyls based on microarray analysis

Xiao-Fen Jin, Jian-Jun Shuai, Ri-He Peng, Bo Zhu and Xiao-Yan Fu, et al.


Photosynthesis and metabolism of sugars from lettuce plants (Lactuca sativa L. var. longifolia) subjected to biofortification with iodine

B. Blasco, J. J. Rios, R. Leyva, R. Melgarejo and C. Constán-Aguilar, et al.


Pre-harvest foliar application of Prohexadione-Ca and gibberellins modify canopy source-sink relations and improve quality and shelf-life of ‘Bing’ sweet cherry

Caixi Zhang and Matthew Whiting


LEAFY COTYLEDON1, FUSCA3 expression and auxin treatment in relation to somatic embryogenesis induction in Arabidopsis

Agnieszka Ledwoń and Malgorzata D. Gaj


Vermicompost treatment differentially affects seed germination, seedling growth and physiological status of vegetable crop species

Gederts Ievinsh


Response of in vitro strawberry to antibiotics

Y. H. Qin, Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, J. H. Bi, S. L. Zhang and G. B. Hu


Triacontanol-mediated regulation of growth and other physiological attributes, active constituents and yield of Mentha arvensis L.

M. Naeem, M. Masroor A. Khan, Moinuddin, Mohd. Idrees and Tariq Aftab


Brief communication


A novel Phytochrome B allele in Arabidopsis thaliana exhibits partial mutant phenotype: a short deletion in N-terminal extension reduces Phytochrome B activity

Scott J. Nicholson, Ute Hoecker and Vibha Srivastava


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Plant Growth Regulation - 65 (2), 2011


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The role of ethylene and brassinosteroids in the control of sex expression and flower development in Cucurbita pepo

Susana Manzano, Cecilia Martínez, Zoraida Megías, Pedro Gómez and Dolores Garrido, et al.


Micropropagation of Juniperus navicularis, an endemic and rare species from Portugal SW coast

Mário Rui Castro, Anabela Ferreira Belo, Anabela Afonso and Maria Amely Zavattieri


Effects of pre-harvest gibberellic acid spraying on gene transcript accumulation during peach fruit development

Camila Pegoraro, Fábio Clasen Chaves, Joceani Dal Cero, César Luís Girardi and Cesar Valmor Rombaldi


Cloning and characterization of an allene oxide cyclase, PpAOC3, in Physcomitrella patens

Takahiro Hashimoto, Kosaku Takahashi, Michio Sato, P. K. G. S. S. Bandara and Kensuke Nabeta


Effects of external ABA, GA3 and NAA on the tiller bud outgrowth of rice is related to changes in endogenous hormones

Yang Liu, Qiangsheng Wang, Yanfeng Ding, Ganghua Li and Junxu Xu, et al.


The interaction of light irradiance with auxin in regulating growth of Helianthus annuus shoots

Leonid V. Kurepin, Linda J. Walton, Edward C. Yeung and David M. Reid


Auxin stability and accumulation during in vitro shoot morphogenesis influences subsequent root induction and development in Eucalyptus grandis

Muhammad Nakhooda, M. Paula Watt and David Mycock


Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can alter some root characters and physiological status in trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata L. Raf.) seedlings

Qiang-Sheng Wu, Ying-Ning Zou, Xin-Hua He and Peng Luo


Effect of traumatic acid on antioxidant activity in Chlorella vulgaris (Chlorophyceae)

Anna Pietryczuk and Romuald Czerpak


Regulated alterations in redox and energetic status are the key mediators of salinity tolerance in the halophyte Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L

Vinayak H. Lokhande, Ashish K. Srivastava, Sudhakar Srivastava, Tukaram D. Nikam and Penna Suprasanna


Allelopathy of red pine: isolation and identification of an allelopathic substance in red pine needles

Hisashi Kato-Noguchi, Yoshiko Fushimi, Yukitoshi Tanaka, Toshiaki Teruya and Kiyotake Suenaga


Effects of the exogenous application of auxin and cytokinin on carbohydrate accumulation in grains of rice under salt stress

Majid Ghorbani Javid, Ali Sorooshzadeh, Seyed Ali Mohammad Modarres Sanavy, Iraj Allahdadi and Foad Moradi


Exogenous proline induces soluble sugar accumulation and alleviates drought stress effects on photosystem II functioning of Arabidopsis thaliana leaves

Michael Moustakas, Ilektra Sperdouli, Theodora Kouna, Chrysovalantou-Irene Antonopoulou and Ioannis Therios


Effect of 3-cyclopropyl-1-enlyl-propanoic acid sodium salt, a novel water soluble antagonist of ethylene action, on plant responses to ethylene

Raphael Goren, Moshe Huberman, Joseph Riov, Eliezer E. Goldschmidt and Edward C. Sisler, et al.


Regulation of source: sink relationship, fruit set, fruit growth and fruit quality in European plum (Prunus domestica L.)—using thinning for crop load management

Claudia Seehuber, Lutz Damerow and Michael Blanke


Identification of barley DWARF gene involved in brassinosteroid synthesis

Damian Gruszka, Iwona Szarejko and Mirosław Małuszynski


Implication of peroxidase activity in development of healthy and PPV-infected micropropagated GF305 peach plants

M. J. Clemente-Moreno, A. Piqueras and J. A. Hernández


Two calcium dependent protein kinases are differently regulated by light and have different activity patterns during seedling growth in Pharbitis nil

Krzysztof Jaworski, Adriana Szmidt-Jaworska and Jan Kopcewicz


In vitro induction and proliferation of protocorm-like bodies (PLBs) from leaf segments of Phalaenopsis bellina (Rchb.f.) Christenson

A. A. Khoddamzadeh, U. R. Sinniah, M. A. Kadir, S. B. Kadzimin and M. Mahmood, et al.


UV-B radiation induces changes in polyamine metabolism in the red seaweed Porphyra cinnamomea

K. Schweikert, J. E. S. Sutherland, C. L. Hurd and D. J. Burritt


Brief communication


Oxytocin influences the production of glycyrrhizin from cell cultures of Abrus precatorius Linn.

Vijai Singh Karwasara, Priti Tomar and Vinod K. Dixit


Ameliorative effect of brassinosteroid and ethylene on germination of cucumber seeds in the presence of sodium chloride

Baolan Wang, Jinli Zhang, Xiuzhi Xia and Wen-Hao Zhang


Strigolactone may interact with gibberellin to control apical dominance in pea (Pisum sativum)

Alessandro Luisi, Roberto Lorenzi and Carlo Sorce


Trichoderma harzianum strain T-22 induces changes in phytohormone levels in cherry rootstocks (Prunus cerasus × P. canescens)

Adriano Sofo, Antonio Scopa, Michele Manfra, Mauro De Nisco and Giancarlo Tenore, et al.



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Plant Growth Regulation - 65 (3), 2011


Contents:


Changes in cytokinin levels and metabolism in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) explants during in vitro shoot organogenesis induced by trans-zeatin and dihydrozeatin

Marek Klemš, Zdeňka Slámová, Václav Motyka, Jiří Malbeck and Alena Trávníčková, et al.


Down-regulation of Rubisco activity under combined increases of CO2 and temperature minimized by changes in Rubisco kcat in wheat

Pilar Pérez, Aitor Alonso, Gloria Zita, Rosa Morcuende and Rafael Martínez-Carrasco


Enhanced biomass and steviol glycosides in Stevia rebaudiana treated with phosphate-solubilizing bacteria and rock phosphate

Mamta Gupta, Shashi Bisht, Bikram Singh, Arvind Gulati and Rupinder Tewari


Local induction of senescence by darkness in Cucurbita pepo (zucchini) cotyledons or the primary leaf induces opposite effects in the adjacent illuminated organ

Kalina Ananieva, Evguéni D. Ananiev, Snejana Doncheva, Detelin Stefanov and Kiril Mishev, et al.


Improved growth performance of the mangrove Avicennia marina seedlings using a 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid deaminase-producing isolate of Pseudoalteromonas maricaloris

Khaled A. El-Tarabily and Tarek Youssef


Cell wall modification in 1-methylcyclopropene-treated post-climacteric fresh-cut and intact papaya fruit

Muharrem Ergun, Yasar Karakurt and Donald J. Huber


Characterization of strigolactones exuded by Asteraceae plants

Kaori Yoneyama, Xiaonan Xie, Takaya Kisugi, Takahito Nomura and Hitoshi Sekimoto, et al.


ß-Cyclodextrin-based nanosponges as carriers for 1-MCP in extending the postharvest longevity of carnation cut flowers: an evaluation of different degrees of cross-linking

Ludovica Seglie, Katia Martina, Marco Devecchi, Carlo Roggero and Francesco Trotta, et al.


New basal media for half-anther culture of Anthurium andreanum Linden ex André cv. Tropical

Budi Winarto, F. Rachmawati and Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva


Brief communication


Change in pH regimes and adventitious root induction in semi-hardwood cuttings of Gmelina arborea Roxb.

Pramod Kumar, Surendra Kumar Jharia and Shamim Akhtar Ansari