Pollen tube cells adhere to the wall surface of the stylar transmitting tract epidermis in lily. This adhesion has been proposed as essential for the proper delivery of the sperm cells to the ovule. An in vitro adhesion bioassay has been used to isolate two stylar molecules required for lily pollen tube adhesion. The first molecule was determined to be a small, cysteine-rich protein with some s...

Since the high time and space complexity, most existing ontology matching systems are not well scalable to solve the large ontology matching problem. Moreover, the popular divide-and-conquer matching solution faces two disadvantages: First, partitioning ontology is a complicate process; Second, it will lead to loss of semantic information during matching. To avoid these drawbacks, this paper pr...

Spatial awareness is important in domains where safety hinges on human operators keeping track of the relative locations of objects in the environment. While a variety of subjective and judgment-based measures have been used to evaluate spatial awareness, none have probed all three of its levels: (1) identification of environmental objects, (2) their current locations relative to the operator, ...

Anthers of lily and trillium were followed with respect to variations in protein and soluble sulfhydryls during meiosis and mitosis of the sporogenous tissue. In lily, the meiotic and mitotic cycles are each preceded by a rise in soluble -SH; in trillium there is only one rise which precedes meiosis. During division there is a marked drop in soluble -SH and a rise in soluble disulfides. Protein...

Lily Jan is Jack and DeLoris Lange Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She began her long-term collaboration with her husband Yuh Nung Jan when they both took the neurobiology summer courses at Cold Spring Harbor (CSH) right after they finished graduate school at Caltech in 1974;...

Lilies are considered nephrotoxic only to domestic cats, which belong to the family Felidae of the suborder Feliformia. However, a 7-month-old female meerkat, belonging to the family Herpestidae of the suborder Feliformia, presented with oliguria, seizure, tachypnea, self-biting, and nystagmus after it ingested lilies. The meerkat died approximately 40 hr after lily ingestion. Gross and histopa...

OBJECTIVE Lily of the valley is a poisonous plant due to the presence of the cardiac glycoside convallatoxin. We compared two immunoassays (LOCI digoxin assay and iDigoxin assay) for rapid detection of convallatoxin if present in human serum. MATERIALS AND METHODS Aliquots of a drug free serum pool and a digoxin serum pool were supplemented with microliter amounts of lily of the valley extrac...

Three cDNAs showing a high degree of homology to the SQUA subfamily of MADS box genes were isolated and characterized from the lily (Lilium longiflorum). Lily MADS Box Gene 5 (LMADS5) showed high sequence identity to oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) SQUAMOSA3 (EgSQUA3). LMADS6 is closely related to LMADS5 whereas LMADS7 is more related to DOMADS2, an orchid (Dendrobium) gene in the SQUA subfamily. ...