Many herbaceous perennial plant species gain significant competitive advantages from their underground creeping storage and proliferation organs (CR), making them more likely to become successful weeds or invasive plants. To develop efficient control methods against such weedy plants, it is necessary identify when the dry weight minimum of CR (CR DWmin) occurs. Moreover, interest determine how ...

this study conducted to investigate the effects of grazing in a short-term stocking system on the water-soluble carbohydrates (wsc) and nitrogen (n) reserves of permanent parts of bromus tomentellus, cephalaria kotschyi and ferula haussknekhtii in saral rangelands. a key area was selected with a permanent exclosure area and two temporary exclosure areas. root excavation was conducted at six to ...

Gauchers disease is a rare lysosomal storage disorder characterized by abnormal accumulation of lipid-laden macrophages in different organs. Though hepatosplenomegaly is commonly found, symptomatic presentation with portal hypertension is rare. We report a child with liver cirrhosis and bleeding esophageal varices who was diagnosed with Gaucher's disease.

Premise Many perennial herbaceous plants develop underground storage organs (USOs) that store carbohydrates, water, and minerals. The resprouting ability of is influenced by the availability these materials type organ number viable buds. In this study, we illustrate diversity longleaf pine savanna species their nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) pools concentrations. We also determined whether NS...

Sperm from Drosophila simulans that carry a sex-ratio distorter is preferentially lost from females' sperm-storage organs. This suggests that sperm dumping is a major factor affecting sperm competition in this species, and may have evolved in response to sex-ratio distorters.

The female genital morphology of the spiders in the araneoid genus Agriognatha (Tetragnathidae) is described and illustrated. The female genitalia of Agriognatha is characterized by a strong reduction of the sperm storage organs (spermathecae) and by the presence of a specialized distal compartment of the median membranous chamber that functions as a sperm storage organ (the posterior sac). The...

IT is generally agreed that the main function of the fat body of insects is the storage of those reserve substances which require rapid mobilization during moulting and metamorphosis. But little attention has been given to the part taken by other organs and tissues in building up reserves and almost none to the influence of the composition of the food upon the type of reserve substance laid dow...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Wild-boar soil disturbance (i.e., rooting) increases the abundance of some species of geophytes (i.e., plants with underground renewal buds) in upland meadows. However, the mechanisms that could lead to such enhanced prevalence remain unexplored. • METHODS We analyzed the effects of wild-boar disturbance on the size, nutrient (N, P, K, C, and total ash), and...

Mucopolysaccharidosis type II (MPSII) is an X-linked lysosomal storage disease characterized by severe neurologic and somatic disease caused by deficiency of iduronate-2-sulfatase (IDS), an enzyme that catabolizes the glycosaminoglycans heparan and dermatan sulphate. Intravenous enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) currently constitutes the only approved therapeutic option for MPSII. However, the i...