Citation: Ertani A, Francioso O, Tinti A, Schiavon M, Pizzeghello D and Nardi S (2018) Evaluation of Seaweed Extracts From Laminaria and Ascophyllum nodosum spp. as Biostimulants in Zea mays L. Using a Combination of Chemical, Biochemical and Morphological Approaches. Front. Plant Sci. 9:428. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00428 Evaluation of Seaweed Extracts From Laminaria and Ascophyllum nodosum spp....

With the exception of barley and rice, little is known about the existence of hemoglobins (Hbs) in cereals. This work reports the cloning and analysis of hb genes from maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) and teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis). Coding sequences of maize and teosinte hb genes (hbm and hbt, respectively) are highly similar to each other and are interrupted by three introns located at ide...

Abstract Sitotroga cerealella (Oliv.) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) is one of the most important post-harvest pests maize Zea mays L. Some Mexican races ( Z. ) could be a novel source resistance against S. to improve commercial varieties, lines and hybrids. We studied races, recollected at Chihuahua State . focused on antibiosis tolerance Cristalino-079 race shows low level consumption in grams pe...

Molecular DNA analyses of the New World grass (Poaceae) genus Zea, comprising five species, has resolved taxonomic issues including the most likely teosinte progenitor (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis) of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays). However, archaeologically, little is known about the use of teosinte by humans both prior to and after the domestication of maize. One potential line of evidence to explo...

the number of seminal roots in maize co-map with the root developmental genes rtcs and rum1. Journal of Experimental Botany 67, 1149–1159. Salvi S, Tuberosa R. 2015. The crop QTLome comes of age. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 32, 179–185. SanMiguel P, Gaut BS, Tikhonov A, Nakajima Y, Bennetzen JL. 1998. The paleontology of intergene retrotransposons of maize. Nature Genetics 20, 43–45. Schna...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition in late infancy in developing countries may result from poor-quality complementary foods that displace breast milk. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to assess the effects of fortified complementary blends of different energy densities on growth, hemoglobin concentrations, and breast milk intake of 9-mo-old Zambian infants. DESIGN Infants were randomly assigne...

Agrobacterium tumefaciens mediated transformation may offer a better alternative than the biolistic gun for genetic transformation of maize plants. This gene delivery system results in a greater proportion of stable, low-copy number transgenic events than does the biolistic gun, and is highly efficient. In the present work, we studied maize transformation using A. tumefaciens by identifying som...

Interactomes are genome-wide roadmaps of protein-protein interactions. They have been produced for humans, yeast, the fruit fly, and Arabidopsis thaliana and have become invaluable tools for generating and testing hypotheses. A predicted interactome for Zea mays (PiZeaM) is presented here as an aid to the research community for this valuable crop species. PiZeaM was built using a proven method ...

Leaves of plants possessing the C4-dicarboxylic acid CO2fixation pathway (14) are characterized by outer mesophyll cells containing granal chloroplasts and inner bundle sheath cells which contain chloroplasts with varying degrees of grana development depending on the species. As judged by Hill activities and fluorescence yield, bundle sheath chloroplasts which contain few grana have less photos...