A wild relative of the garden pea, formerly called Pisum sativum L., but now included in genus Lathyrus, is illustrated, and its relationship to cultivated peas discussed. Recent studies DNA Lathyrus have led change name for this common species.

Heat stress seriously affects the production of cool-season food legume crops such as garden peas. Seed priming is a widely used technique that increases germination and improves plant growth development, resulting in better field performance higher yield crops. In current study, we investigated three seed treatments—hydropriming (dH2O), osmopriming (2.2% w/v CaCl2), hormopriming (50 mg L?1 sal...

Five cytokinin activities which induced soybean callus proliferation were detected in ethanol extracts of root nodules of the garden pea (Pisum sativum L., cv. Little Marvel). The most active factors among them were identified as zeatin and its riboside on the basis of their mobility on thin layer chromatography in three solvent systems. Smaller activities of zeatin ribotide, isopentenyladenine...

Garden pea (Pisum sativum) was prominent in early studies investigating the genetic control of flowering and the role of mobile flowering signals. In view of recent evidence that genes in the FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) family play an important role in generating mobile flowering signals, we isolated the FT gene family in pea and examined the regulation and function of its members. Comparison with M...

The model plants Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and rice (Oryza sativa) have provided a wealth of information about genes and genetic pathways controlling the flowering process, but little is known about the corresponding pathways in legumes. The garden pea (Pisum sativum) has been used for several decades as a model system for physiological genetics of flowering, but the lack of molecular ...

R. A. Fisher (1936) made the assertion that the that Mendel would have counted those, correctly, as data in Mendel’s experiments with garden peas heterozygotes. Second, in those cases in which there (Mendel 1866) were too close to expectation. One of were 9 or fewer plants, all with dominant traits, Mendel the most striking examples seemed to be the six experiwould not have the 10 he specified ...

IT is generally agreed that the overall results from ratios that Mendel reports, as well as the rationale for experiments with the garden pea reported by Gregor those ratios, with the later, more limited results from Mendel (1866) conform more closely with the ratios runs with plant characters serving to determine whether theoretically expected (such as 3:1, 1:2:1, etc.) than one those characte...

One of the most important carbohydrate-splitting enzymes is themaltase-glucoamylase which catalyzes the hydrolysis of alpha-glucosidic linkages. Maltase-glucoamylase inhibitors during the last few years have aroused medical interests in the treatment of diabetes. They contribute to a better understanding of the mechanism of maltase-glucoamylase. At present there are many different classes of ma...

Glucoamylase isozymes from black Aspergillus species have been freed of all traces of alpha-amylase by chromatography on Bio-Gel P-100, as evidenced by limited hydrolysis of oxidized amylose. Glucoamylase I retains its ability to hydrolyze rabbit-liver glycogen rapidly. By contrast, glucoamylase II hydrolyzes glycogen slowly, and addition of alpha-amylase to glucoamylase II does not enhance its...