It has been reported recently that coleoptiles of Zea mays develop a geotropic response under anaerobic conditions (2). The geotropic response of a coleoptile arises from the differential growth of the upper and lower halves of the organ. At least 3 independent investigations have shown that in Avena sativa coleoptiles growth is totally arrested in the absence of 02 (1,6, 9). It is therefore di...

It has been reported recently that coleoptiles of Zea mays develop a geotropic response under anaerobic conditions (2). The geotropic response of a coleoptile arises from the differential growth of the upper and lower halves of the organ. At least 3 independent investigations have shown that in Avena sativa coleoptiles growth is totally arrested in the absence of 02 (1,6, 9). It is therefore di...

Nineteen accessions selected from the four species and three subspecies of the genus Zea and one accession from the related genus Tripsacum were surveyed for variation with 21 restriction endonucleases. In all, 580 restriction sites were assayed in each chloroplast (cp)DNA, this representing 2.2% of the genome. Twenty-four of the 580 sites were variable in one or more of the cpDNAs. The number ...

A new allele of the 27-kD zein locus in maize has been generated by interchromosomal recombination between chromosomes of two different inbred lines. A continuous patch of at least 11,817 bp of inbred W64A, containing the previously characterized Ra allele of the 27-kD zein gene, has been inserted into the genome of A188 by a single crossover. While both junction sequences are conserved, sequen...

Gene flow plays a fundamental role in plant evolutionary history, yet its role in population divergence--and ultimately speciation--remains poorly understood. We investigated gene flow and the modalities of divergence in the domesticated Zea mays ssp. mays and three wild Zea taxa using sequence polymorphism data from 26 nuclear loci. We described diversity across loci and assessed evidence for ...

A survey of plant parasitic nematodes associated with Zea mays in Kashmir valley was conducted from June 2006 to November 2006 which yielded a number of Tylenchids. Among them, the species Tylenchorhynchus zeae Sethi and G. Swarp, 1968, Pratylenchus sativus kaul, 1985, Aphelenchoides srinagrensisKaul, 1985 are reported herein, with dimensions. The parasites are being recorded for the first time...

Acetylcholine (ACh) is a chemical transmitter serving to propagate an electrical perturbation across the synaptic junctions of animals. ACh and AChE have previously been demonstrated to occur in plants. In this work, we detected AChE at the interface between stele and cortex of the mesocotyl of Zea mays by measuring hydrolysis of acetylthiocholine and by liberation of labeled acetate from [1-(1...

Punctodera chalcoensis Stone et al. is a cyst nematode parasitizing corn (Zea mays L.) and teosinte (Zea mexicana (Schrad.) Kuntz) in Mexico (7). This nematode damages corn severely in Tlaxcala and Puebla states of Mexico (7). Pathogenic studies of P. chalcoensis on corn have been conducted in the greenhouse (2). Mundo-Ocampo and Baldwin (6) reported that P. chalcoensis induces a syncytium in r...

Lipoxygenase from the germ of corn, Zea mays, oxidized linoleic acid to primarily 9-D-hydroperoxy-trans-lO,cis-12octadecadienoic acid.