We tested whether the presence of plant roots would impair the uptake of ammonium ([Formula: see text]), glycine, and glutamate by microorganisms in a deciduous forest soil exposed to constant or variable moisture in a short-term (24-h) experiment. The uptake of (15)NH4 and dual labeled amino acids by the grass Festuca gigantea L. and soil microorganisms was determined in planted and unplanted ...

There is considerable evidence that both plant diversity and plant identity can influence the level of predation and predator abundance aboveground. However, how the level of predation in the soil and the abundance of predatory soil fauna are related to plant diversity and identity remains largely unknown. In a biodiversity field experiment, we examined the effects of plant diversity and identi...

Bu çalışma, Orta Karadeniz Bölgesi doğal florasından toplanan domuz ayrığı (Dactylis glomerata ssp.), kamışsı yumak (Festuca arundinaceae ssp.) ve ak üçgül (Trifolium repens popülasyonlarının çekirdek DNA içeriklerinin flow sitometri yöntemiyle belirlenmesi ploidi analizi ile tür teşhisinde kullanılması amacıyla yürütülmüştür. Proje kapsamında üçgülden mera tipi 80, ayrığından ot 80 yumaktan ot...

A single chromosome of the grass species Festuca pratensis has been introgressed into Lolium perenne to produce a diploid monosomic substitution line 2n = 2x = 14. The chromatin of F. pratensis and L. perenne can be distinguished by genomic in situ hybridization (GISH), and it is therefore possible to visualize the substituted F. pratensis chromosome in the L. perenne background and to study ch...

Mutualistic fungal endophytes infect many grass species and often confer benefits to the hosts such as reduced herbivory by insects and animals. The physiological interactions between the endophytes and their hosts have not been well characterized. Fungal-secreted proteins are likely to be important components of the interaction. In the interaction between Poa ampla and the endophyte Neotyphodi...

Angela Weber and Ulrich Lüttge Institut für Botanik, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstraße 3—5, D-6100 Darmstadt, Bundesrepublik Deutschland Z. Naturforsch. 43c, 257-263 (1988); received December 23, 1987 Sethoxydim, Herbicide, Redox Systems, Isolated Organelles, Plasmalemma Leaf slices of sethoxydim-sensitive (Poa pratensis, Festuca ovina) and tolerant (Poa annua, Festuca rubra) ...

Active duplicate PgiC genes in sheep's fescue, Festuca ovina, are associated with a PCR marker of specific length (about 370 bp, of which 231 are in an intron). Using this marker, the frequency of plants with duplicate genes is estimated to be about 10% in a population from southern Sweden. The close molecular similarity between the electrophoretically different duplicated genes is in accordanc...