The plant cyclotides are a family of 28 to 37 amino acid miniproteins characterized by their head-to-tail cyclized peptide backbone and six absolutely conserved Cys residues arranged in a cystine knot motif: two disulfide bonds and the connecting backbone segments form a loop that is penetrated by the third disulfide bond. This knotted disulfide arrangement, together with the cyclic peptide bac...

WITTERS, WELDON L. Extraction and identification of clavine and lysergic acid alkaloids from morning glories. Ohio J. Sci. 75(4): 198, 1975. Seeds from three varieties of Ipomoea grown in Ohio were examined for clavine and lysergic acid alkaloids. Three systems of extraction of ergoline alkaloids were compared with the ammonium hydroxide-methanol-chloroform method proving superior to the others...

We investigated the effects of catecholamine on flower-induction in P. nil (cv. Violet). GC-SIM analysis identified dopamine for the first time in P. nil seedlings. Dopamine levels in the cotyledons did not show a significant change during the inducing dark treatment. The dopamine content of cotyledons exposed to various durations of darkness were 0.1-0.2 nmol/g fresh weight. The same content w...

Recently, we isolated dehydroipomeamarone, a new sesquiterpenoid from sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas Lam.) root tissue infected with Ceratocystis fimbriata (Ell. et Halst.). The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether dehydroipomeamarone was a precursor in the biosynthetic pathway of ipomeamarone. The incorporation of acetate-2-(14)C into ipomeamarone was markedly inhibited by the...

The plant cyclotides are a family of 28 to 37 amino acid miniproteins characterized by their head-to-tail cyclized peptide backbone and six absolutely conserved Cys residues arranged in a cystine knot motif: two disulfide bonds and the connecting backbone segments form a loop that is penetrated by the third disulfide bond. This knotted disulfide arrangement, together with the cyclic peptide bac...

The exposure of dark-grown Pharbitis nil seedlings to continuous R induces a rapid decrease in PHYA mRNA abundance with a half-life of about 2 h. A 5 min R pulse also induces this decline, and the effect is partially reversible by subsequent FR irradiation, confirming that the regulation of expression is mediated via the Pfr form of a phytochrome. When de-etiolated seedlings are returned to dar...

objective: ipomoea mauritiana is used in both ayurveda and folk medicine systems. the tuberous roots are known to be diuretic, depurative, carminative, and anthelmintic. the objective of the current study was to identify phenolic antioxidants from i. mauritiana using spectrophotometric and lc-ms analysis. materials and methods: an activity-guided fractionation and purification process was used t...

The effects of photoperiod on floral and vegetative development of Pharbitis nil were modified by atmospheric CO(2) concentrations maintained during plant growth. Short day (SD) photoperiods caused rapid flowering in Pharbitis plants growing in 0.03 or 0.1% CO(2), while plants in long day (LD) conditions remained vegetative. At 1 or 5% CO(2), however, flower buds were developed under both the S...

O n his voyages across the Pacific, Captain James Cook encountered geographically disparate Polynesian societies, including those living on Easter Island, Hawai’i, and the north island of New Zealand. These far-flung communities cultivated a South American domesticate, the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas). Subsequent debates concerning the timing and nature of the dispersals of sweet potato into ...

In both short-day and long-day plants, endogenous rhythms apparently are involved in photoperiodic response. One line of the evidence is a rhythmic flowering response to cycle length (1, 3,4, 6,9), and another is the rhythmic effectiveness of light breaks given at different points in very long dark periods (2, 4,6,8, 10). Phlarbitis nil, strain Violet, is an extremely sensitive short-day plant....