Abstract In recent years, the biology of evolutionary origin phytohormone signaling has made significant progress. Among them, ligand-receptor co-evolution found in jasmonate attracted attention plant scientists. Dinor- cis- 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid (dn- cis -OPDA, 4 ) and dn- iso- OPDA ( 5 are ancestral hormones bryophyte Marchantia polymorpha L. We succeeded first practical synthetic supply t...

Three new aseptic cultures of Marchantia polymorpha from different collecting sites have been induced from the gametophytes. The formation of bisbibenzyls in differentiated cultures and cell suspension cultures was investigated. We observed that the production of the main bisbibenzyl, Marchantin A was induced by lack of nitrate and the addition of cupric sulfate to the medium. The comparison of...

A cDNA for a novel plant protein was isolated from tomato. Nuclear Matrix Protein 1 (NMP1) is a ubiquitously expressed 36 kDa protein, which has no homologues in animals and fungi, but is highly conserved among flowering and non-flowering plants, including gymnosperms, moss, and the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha. NMP1 is predominantly alpha-helical with multiple stretches of short amphipathic...