Cassava is a tropical origin plant that is sensitive to chilling stress. In order to understand the CBF cold response pathway, a well-recognized regulatory mechanism in temperate plants, in cassava, overexpression of an Arabidopsis CBF3 gene is studied. This gene renders cassava increasingly tolerant to cold and drought stresses but is associated with retarded plant growth, leaf curling, reduce...

Maybe your New Year’s resolution involved getting in shape—that’s something developing leaves do all the time. Instead of working on their abs and glutes, however, leaves specify adaxial (upper) and abaxial (lower) cell fates (reviewed in Yamaguchi et al., 2012). This polarity initiates from signals within the shoot apical meristem, which cause the two sides of the leaf to develop different cel...

In this study, we performed the first integrated physiological and proteomic analysis of the response to drought and recovery from drought, using Brachypodium distachyon L. Roots and leaves. Drought stress resulted in leaves curling, root tips becoming darker in color and significant changes in some physiological parameters. Two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis (2D-DIGE) identified 78...

Beet curly top virus (BCTV) and beet curly top Iran virus (BCTIV) are known as the causal agents of curly top disease in beet and several other dicotyledonous plants in Iran. These viruses are transmitted by Circulifer species, and until now, there has been no confirmed report of their seed transmission. A percentage (38.2-78.0%) of the seedlings developed from the seeds of a petunia local cult...

Virus-infected plants often display developmental abnormalities that include stunting, leaf curling, and the loss of apical dominance. In this study, the helicase domain of the Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) 126- and/or 183-kDa replicase protein(s) was found to interact with the Arabidopsis Aux/IAA protein PAP1 (also named IAA26), a putative regulator of auxin response genes involved in plant devel...

Aims: In this study, it was aimed to investigate the occurrence of cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus (CYSDV), chlorotic yellows (CCYV) and beet pseudo-yellows (BPYV) in cucumber, zucchini melon plants grown Hatay province by Double Antibody Sandwich-Enzyme Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay (DAS-ELISA) Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) methods, analyse phylogenetic relatio...

TO THE EDITOR Hair loss or hair color change in patients taking valproate has been repeatedly reported. However, drug-induced hair texture changes have been reported rarely. Curly hair is a very rare side effect of valproate. Valproate is recommended for the acute treatment of mania and maintenance of bipolar disorder as a mood stabilizer. Valproate can be used also in the treatment of epilepsy...

Nodulation of alfalfa by exoB mutants of Rhizobium meliloti occurred without root hair curling or infection thread formation. nod exoB double mutants had the same nodulation deficiency as single nod mutants. Therefore, all the known nod genes are involved in nodule induction by exoB mutants, which apparently occurs via intercellular invasion.

A single layer, mono-component, fast, stable, and controllable curling motion actuator is prepared from a mixture of di-acrylate mesogenic monomer and 5CB using a photo-polymerization induced phase separation method. This actuator is capable of sensing water in acetone.