scholarly journals A novel method for quantifying insect damage to plant storage organs

2019 ◽  
Vol 168 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Forrest Allen Dray ◽  
Scott L. Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Insect Damage ◽  
Storage Organs ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Plant Storage

Metabolic signalling and the partitioning of resources in plant storage organs

1999 ◽  
Vol 133 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
NIGEL G. HALFORD
Keyword(s):  
Dry Weight ◽  
Wild Relatives ◽  
Crop Plants ◽  
Wild Plants ◽  
Young Plant ◽  
Carbon And Nitrogen ◽  
Cultivated Potato ◽  
Metabolic Signalling ◽  
Storage Organs ◽  
Plant Storage

The most important harvested organs of crop plants, such as seeds, tubers and fruits, are often described as assimilate sinks. They play little or no part in the fixation of carbon through the production of sugars through photosynthesis, or in the uptake of nitrogen and sulphur, but import these assimilated resources to support metabolism and to store them in the form of starch, oils and proteins. Wild plants store resources in seeds and tubers to later support an emergent young plant. Cultivated crops are effectively storing resources to provide us with food and many have been bred to accumulate much more than would be required otherwise. For example, approximately 80% of a cultivated potato plant's dry weight is contained in its tubers, ten times the proportion in the tubers of its wild relatives (Inoue & Tanaka 1978). Cultivation and breeding has brought about a shift in the partitioning of carbon and nitrogen assimilate between the organs of the plant.

Synthesis of rRNA, tRNA and Other RNA-species Concomitant with Polyribosome Formation in Aging Potato Tuber Slices

1971 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 1058-1064 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günter Kahl
Keyword(s):  
16S Rrna ◽  
Actinomycin D ◽  
Potato Tubers ◽  
5S Rna ◽  
Storage Tissue ◽  
Peptide Formation ◽  
Storage Organs ◽  
Thin Disks ◽  
Plant Storage

One of the earliest consequences of slicing plant storage organs such as potato tubers into thin disks is the formation of polysomes, which in potato slices is complete after 9 hours and is dependent on transcription. Fresh disks do not incorporate 32P, 3H-uridine or 14C-leucine into their ribosomes, whereas ribosomes and polysomes of aged disks use these precursors effectively. This development can be completely blocked by actinomycin D. Among the different RNAs synthesized during aging is 28S- and 16S—rRNA, 5S—RNA, tRNA, and a component sedimenting around 15—18S with a base-composition different from 16S—rRNA, 5S- and 4S—RNA and which supports peptide formation in an in vitro incorporation system.It is suggested that this compound represents mRNA, which is not available immediately after slicing the tissue. These findings are consistent with the view of a derepression phenomenon in sliced storage tissue.

High-level and stable accumulation of single-chain Fv antibodies in plant storage organs

1998 ◽  
Vol 152 (6) ◽  
pp. 708-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udo Conrad ◽  
Ulrike Fiedler ◽  
Olga Artsaenko ◽  
Julian Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Single Chain ◽  
Single Chain Fv ◽  
Storage Organs ◽  
High Level ◽  
Plant Storage

Towards an Understanding of Starch Biosynthesis and Its Relationship to Protein Synthesis in Plant Storage Organs

1992 ◽  
pp. 273-288
Author(s):  
Cathie Martin ◽  
Madan Bhattacharyya ◽  
Ian Dry ◽  
Cliff Hedley ◽  
Noel Ellis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protein Synthesis ◽  
Starch Biosynthesis ◽  
Storage Organs ◽  
Plant Storage
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