Adele Marshall (Queen’s University Belfast) Giuliana Battisti (Aston University) Norman Caven (Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency) Shirley Coleman (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Steve Gilmour (Queen Mary London) Chris Glasbey (BIOSS, Edinburgh) Brendan Murphy (Trinity College Dublin) Ron Smith (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Edinburgh) Mary Sweetland (NHS Scotland Information...

Examination of the bulbs of Lilium pumilum (Liliaceae) led to the isolation of four novel steroidal glycosides (1-4) with a 2,3,4-trisubstituted β-d-glucopyranosyl unit. In 1 and 3, the α-L-arabinopyranosyl moiety is linked to C-3 of the inner trisubstituted β-D-glucopyranosyl group and is present as an usual ⁴C₁ conformation. In contrast, in 2 and 4, the α-L-arabinopyranosyl moiety, which is a...

We present phylogenetic analyses of 37 taxa of Fritillaria (Liliaceae), 15 species of Lilium, and several outgroup taxa from Liliaceae s.s. to investigate the generic delimitation of Fritillaria in relation to Lilium as well as infrageneric relationships within Fritillaria. We used DNA sequences from the maturase-coding plastid matK gene and the trnK intron, the intron of the ribosomal protein-...

Reciprocal pollination was made between Lilium nobilissimum and L. regale. Pollen tubes reached the base of style within 144 h after pollination, but no mature seeds were obtained in either cross combination. Explants, or ovules-with-placental-tissue excised from each carpel 30 and 40 days after pollination (DAP), were cultured on a medium composed of major salts of B-5 macronutrient (Gamborg, ...

this experiment was carried out to investigate the effect of bulb harvesting time and indole butyric acid as well as changes of endogenous growth regulators, indole acetic acid and abscisic acid during scale propagation of lilium ledebourii (baker) boiss. treatments consisted of bulb harvesting time (0, 50, 100 and 150 days after flowering) in the natural habitat of damash, and iba concentratio...

despite controversy, the contingent valuation method (cvm) is widely used for non-market valuation. among elicitation methods of cvm, the dichotomous choice (dc) has been paid attention. there are two types of dc methods: single-bounded dc (sbdc) and double-bounded dc (dbdc). dbdc is more efficient than sbdc. many of cvm studies in iran used dbdc but data analyses were done by logit model; that...

One of the most effective ways to propagate Lilium is by using tissue culture techniques, preferably through bulblet production. In addition to the surviving percentage of Lilium bulbs after transplantation, the small size of in vitro bulblets compared to commercial bulbs and bulblets‟ dormancy are the most important constraints to commercializing Lilium micropropagation. Different concentratio...

Villin/gelsolin/fragmin superfamily proteins have been shown to function in tip-growing plant cells. However, genes encoding gelsolin/fragmin do not exist in the Arabidopsis thaliana and rice (Oryza sativa) databases, and it is possible that these proteins are encoded by villin mRNA splicing variants. We cloned a 1006-bp full-length cDNA from Lilium longiflorum that encodes a 263-amino acid pre...