The abnormal inflorescence meristem1 (aim1) mutation affects inflorescence and floral development in Arabidopsis. After the transition to reproductive growth, the aim1 inflorescence meristem becomes disorganized, producing abnormal floral meristems and resulting in plants with severely reduced fertility. The derived amino acid sequence of AIM1 shows extensive similarity to the cucumber multifun...

DESPITE frequent contact, inhalation of grasses is a rare occurrence in childhood. In a high proportion of the recorded cases the inhaled foreign material was an inhaled inflorescence (flower or seed head) which had tracked through the lung parenchyma, the pleura and the chest wall, to present as a swelling, either in relationship to a rib or in the subcutaneous tissue. Jackson (1952) reported ...

• Flower formation in grapevines follows 3 steps: 1) formation of uncommitted primordia, also called anlagen, within the latent buds; 2) differentiation of uncommitted primordia into inflorescence primordia; and 3) differentiation of inflorescence primordia into individual flowers . Steps 1 and 2 happen during the previous season, whereas Step 3 does not happen until budbreak of the current sea...

Aratitiyopea lopezii is a robust perennial species of Xyridaceae from seasonally saturated, midto high-elevation, sandstone and granite sites in northern South America. The species lacks the scapose inflorescence characteristic of Xyridaceae and, having the gestalt of a rhizomatous bromeliad, it is seemingly aberrant in the family. However, closer examination confirms features consistent with t...

A recessive ascospore mutant of Neurospora tetrasperma, named bud, was isolated from a wild-collected heterokaryotic strain with four different nuclear components. bud segregates as a single mendelian gene. When bud is homozygous, meiosis is apparently normal but postmeiotic events are not. Abnormal orientation of spindles at the postmeiotic mitosis often results in failed pair-wise association...

From the flowers of meadowsweet and inflorescence of hawthorn the whole set of phenolic acids and flavonoids was analysed by TLC. Phenolic compounds were determined both as free ones and those liberated by hydrolysis. Moreover, ethyl ether and ethyl acetate extracts obtained from the analysed plants before and after alkaline and enzymatic hydrolyses were evaporated under reduced pressure and re...

Bagging of female inflorescence following pollination has recently received growers attention. Although this process occurs early in the season but affects fruit quality, yield, and marketability. Date palm growers have used to use grocery paper bags for this bagging process. Since inflorescence bagging causes what is called the greenhouse effect, it was very important to investigate the effect...

Naturally established individuals of Plantago lanceolata with the inflorescence disease caused by Fusarium moniliforme var. subglutinans had more inflorescences and were more likely to be male-sterile than healthy plants. Half-sib families planted in the field varied in the percentage of diseased plants, the number of inflorescences per plant, the incidence of male-sterility, and the pattern of...

We recently described the glucosinolate transporters GTR1 and GTR2 as actively contributing to the establishment of tissue-specific distribution of the defense compounds glucosinolates in vegetative Arabidopsis plants. Upon bolting and thereby development of the inflorescence and initiation of seed setting, the spatial distribution of glucosinolates does undergo major changes. Here we investiga...