David Smyth is a plant developmental geneticist. He began his independent career at Monash University in Melbourne in 1974, where he investigated the basis of the very large genomes of the true lilies (Lilium species) when DNA cloning methods became available. Two abundant dispersed elements turned out to be retrotransposons, revealing their important role in bulking up some plant genomes. In 1...

Most recent phylogenetic analyses of basal angiosperms have converged on the placement of Amborella as sister to all other extant angiosperms. However, certain recent studies suggest that Amborella and Nymphaeales (water lilies) form a clade sister to all remaining angiosperms or that Nymphaeales alone are the sister to the remaining angiosperms. We report here (i) maximum parsimony, maximum li...

— We construct examples of simply connected nonalgebraic symplectic fourfolds with a prescribed number of nonintersecting symplectic curves with positive self-intersections.

Hybrid lilies are excellent cut flowers due to the availability of flowers with various colors and shapes. Extensive inter-species hybridization has resulted in numerous cultivars, and many new cultivars are introduced to the market each year. While the vigor and reliability of the crop has improved over the years, what has not changed is that the postharvest quality of the cut stem is an impor...

Infeksi yang disebabkan oleh bakteri Pseudomonas aeruginosa menjadi salah satu penyebab penyakit nosokomial. Potensi bahan alam seperti bunga lili belum banyak digali, komponen minyak atsiri memiliki kandungan benzaldehid, linalol, simen, borneol dan osimen dapat bereaksi dengan dinding sel menyebabkan kerusakan bakteri. Tujuan penelitian ini ialah untuk mengetahui potensi (Lilium auratum) dala...

Phytochemical investigation of the aerial parts of Euphorbia erythradenia Bioss. (Euphorbiaceae), one of Iranian endemic Euphorbias, with particular attention to triterpene constituents, using methanol solvent extraction was carried out. Five known triterpenes, including four cycloartanes and oleanolic acid, were isolated for the first time and identified using NMR and Mass techniques. Anti HIV...

Using the sequence information on a class of recA-like genes, which have been isolated from meiosis-specific cDNA libraries of Lilium and budding yeast and identified in various plant cells, a new gene was screened from a mouse testis cDNA library. The putative product of the gene, termed MmLim15, was 37.8 kDa consisting of 340 amino acid residues. The predicted amino acid sequence showed 72-78...