Figure 1 Figure 2 Dahlia (Asteraceae) has been cultivated since 1841 in Japan. Two viroids belonging to the family Pospiviroidae, Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) and Dahlia latent viroid (DLVd), were identified separately from dahlia plants in Japan and in the Netherlands, respectively (Tsushima et al., 2011; Verhoeven et al., 2013). Because DLVd was characterised as a novel species, the fi...

Dahlia pinnata is a species of the genus dahlia, belonging to the family Asteraceae. The present study reported the use of dahlia pinnata flower extract as an acid base indicator in different types of acid base titrations. The equivalence point obtained by the flower extract coincided with the equivalence point obtained by standard indicators. The results obtained by the flower extract matched ...

In 1934 Marshall Howe, of the New York Botanical Garden, compiled a list of Dahlia cultivars containing more than 14,000 names. This number represents an astonishing average of over 100 newly named cultivars during each of the 143 years since 1791, when dahlias were first brought into cultivation in the gardens of Spain following their arrival from Mexico. Today dahlias are among the most famil...

In the flowers of important ornamental Compositae plants, anthocyanins generally carry malonyl group(s) at their 3-glucosyl moiety. In this study, for the first time to our knowledge, we have identified a cDNA coding for this 3-glucoside-specific malonyltransferase for anthocyanins, i.e. malonyl-coenzyme A:anthocyanidin 3-O-glucoside-6"-O-malonyltransferase, from dahlia (Dahlia variabilis) flow...

The experiment on “Evaluation of dahlia (Dahlia variabilis L.) genotypes for quality, yield and shelf life” was carried out at the Department Floriculture Landscape Architecture, College Horticulture, Sirsi, University Horticultural Sciences, Bagalkot, Karnataka during year 2018 to 2019 with a view find best life dahlia. genotype HUBD-30 recorded highest individual flower weight (15.33 g), diam...

Various carbon sources were evaluated for production of inulinase by yeast, Kluyveromyces marxianus MTCC 3995. Highest inulinase activity was observed with Dahlia extract (25.3 nkat mL(-1)) as carbon source. The enzyme activity was 1.4 folds higher than that observed in media containing pure chicory inulin (17.8 nkat mL(-1)). The yeast showed good growth on a simple medium containing dahlia ext...

Jeffrey B. Harborne and Marian Boardley Phytochemical Unit, Plant Science Laboratories, University of Reading, Reading, U.K. Z. Naturforsch. 40c, 305—308 (1985); received January 16, 1985 Angiosperms, Flower Pigments, Malonated Anthocyanins, Zwitterions An electrophoretic survey of anthocyanins in flowers of 81 species belonging to 27 plant families indicated that malonated or similarly substit...