Floral development in Caulophyllum thalictroides (Berberidaceae)

1982 ◽  
Vol 60 (10) ◽  
pp. 2133-2141 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Brett ◽  
U. Posluszny

A study of floral development in Caulophyllum thalictroides led to a reevaluation of the structure of the flower. After the production of sepal primordia, common stamen–nectary primordia arise. Nectary primordia are produced abaxially as a result of bifurcations of the common stamen–nectary primordia. The nectaries therefore cannot be considered reduced petals as traditionally interpreted and are perhaps better regarded as staminal derivatives. Three whorls of sepals develop; the lowermost often being dimerous, while the upper two whorls are more typically trimerous. The interpretation of the lowermost whorl of sepals as bracts was questioned. The terminology with regards to the inflorescence was considered, and after examination of material from this taxon it was felt that the inflorescence is best described as a cymosely branched panicle.

1989 ◽  
Vol 67 (8) ◽  
pp. 2371-2386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean M. Gerrath ◽  
Usher Posluszny

The vegetative and floral development of Ampelopsis brevipedunculata was studied using both three-dimensional and histological techniques. An uncommitted primordium (which usually develops into a tendril in young seedlings and a cymose inflorescence in mature plants) is initiated opposite every leaf on the flank of the shoot apical meristem. Flowers are hermaphroditic, pentamerous, and protandrous. The sepals are initiated spirally, and form a calyx unit as the result of subsequent activity of a basal ring primordium. The common petal–stamen primordia are initiated simultaneously, but differentiate into petals and stamens unidirectionally. The gynoecium is initiated as a ring primordium, which produces two septa from the inner gynoecium wall. Two bitegmic, anatropus ovules arise from the base of each septum. At maturity the gynoecium is superior and two-loculed. Pollen is tricolporate. A nectar-secreting disc arises from the base of the ovary. The fruit is a turquoise-blue berry, containing one to four seeds. Axillary buds, present at each node, develop sylleptically and normally abscise at the end of the growing season. A vertical series of as many as six serial axillary buds develop basipetally to form the overwintering buds, which are not externally visible.


2004 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 285 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Prenner

The floral development of Daviesia cordata Smith is studied by the use of scanning electron microscopy. This is the first study of a member of Mirbelieae. Although organ initiation in Papilionoideae is said to be almost uniformly unidirectional from the abaxial to the adaxial side, the presented floral development shows striking differences from this mode. Sepals, petals and the antepetalous stamens are initiated in simultaneous whorls, which is seen as a consequence of harmonisation of the plastochrons within the whorls. The antesepalous stamens are initiated unidirectional from the adaxial to the abaxial side, which is the reversed direction of the common mode of Papilionoideae. This is the first record of reversed unidirectionality in Papilionoideae, which can be linked with isolated findings in Caesalpinioideae and Mimosoideae. Concerning developmental aspects, the results seem to link the papilionoid flower closer to those of Caesalpinioideae and Mimosoideae. Further developmental studies are necessary to broaden the data matrix for a detailed phylogenetic analysis.


1978 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 389-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chr. de Vegt

AbstractReduction techniques as applied to astrometric data material tend to split up traditionally into at least two different classes according to the observational technique used, namely transit circle observations and photographic observations. Although it is not realized fully in practice at present, the application of a blockadjustment technique for all kind of catalogue reductions is suggested. The term blockadjustment shall denote in this context the common adjustment of the principal unknowns which are the positions, proper motions and certain reduction parameters modelling the systematic properties of the observational process. Especially for old epoch catalogue data we frequently meet the situation that no independent detailed information on the telescope properties and other instrumental parameters, describing for example the measuring process, is available from special calibration observations or measurements; therefore the adjustment process should be highly self-calibrating, that means: all necessary information has to be extracted from the catalogue data themselves. Successful applications of this concept have been made already in the field of aerial photogrammetry.


Author(s):  
Ben O. Spurlock ◽  
Milton J. Cormier

The phenomenon of bioluminescence has fascinated layman and scientist alike for many centuries. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a number of observations were reported on the physiology of bioluminescence in Renilla, the common sea pansy. More recently biochemists have directed their attention to the molecular basis of luminosity in this colonial form. These studies have centered primarily on defining the chemical basis for bioluminescence and its control. It is now established that bioluminescence in Renilla arises due to the luciferase-catalyzed oxidation of luciferin. This results in the creation of a product (oxyluciferin) in an electronic excited state. The transition of oxyluciferin from its excited state to the ground state leads to light emission.


Author(s):  
Ezzatollah Keyhani

Acetylcholinesterase (EC 3.1.1.7) (ACHE) has been localized at cholinergic junctions both in the central nervous system and at the periphery and it functions in neurotransmission. ACHE was also found in other tissues without involvement in neurotransmission, but exhibiting the common property of transporting water and ions. This communication describes intracellular ACHE in mammalian bone marrow and its secretion into the extracellular medium.


Author(s):  
R. Hegerl ◽  
A. Feltynowski ◽  
B. Grill

Till now correlation functions have been used in electron microscopy for two purposes: a) to find the common origin of two micrographs representing the same object, b) to check the optical parameters e. g. the focus. There is a third possibility of application, if all optical parameters are constant during a series of exposures. In this case all differences between the micrographs can only be caused by different noise distributions and by modifications of the object induced by radiation.Because of the electron noise, a discrete bright field image can be considered as a stochastic series Pm,where i denotes the number of the image and m (m = 1,.., M) the image element. Assuming a stable object, the expectation value of Pm would be Ηm for all images. The electron noise can be introduced by addition of stationary, mutual independent random variables nm with zero expectation and the variance. It is possible to treat the modifications of the object as a noise, too.


Author(s):  
Anthony A. Paparo ◽  
Judith A. Murphy

The purpose of this study was to localize the red neuronal pigment in Mytilus edulis and examine its role in the control of lateral ciliary activity in the gill. The visceral ganglia (Vg) in the central nervous system show an over al red pigmentation. Most red pigments examined in squash preps and cryostat sec tions were localized in the neuronal cell bodies and proximal axon regions. Unstained cryostat sections showed highly localized patches of this pigment scattered throughout the cells in the form of dense granular masses about 5-7 um in diameter, with the individual granules ranging from 0.6-1.3 um in diame ter. Tissue stained with Gomori's method for Fe showed bright blue granular masses of about the same size and structure as previously seen in unstained cryostat sections.Thick section microanalysis (Fig.l) confirmed both the localization and presence of Fe in the nerve cell. These nerve cells of the Vg share with other pigmented photosensitive cells the common cytostructural feature of localization of absorbing molecules in intracellular organelles where they are tightly ordered in fine substructures.


Author(s):  
Shaul Barkan

Cooling down solid state detecors, with other different way then liquid Nitrogen, is a goal of many vendors and customers since the invention of these detectors. THe disadvantage of the common way of liquid Nitrogen is first the inavailibility of the LN in many uses (like space military and any other applications that are not done inside a well organize Laboratory). The use of LN also considers as a Labor consumer in addition to the big dewar that has to be added to any detector for storing the LN, the boiling of the LN, may cause microphonics problesm and the refiling of the dewar in many Labs is a complicated process due to inconvenience location of the microscope.In this paper I will show a spectra result of 10mm2 SiLi detector for microanalysis use, cooled by peltier cooler. The peltier cooler has the advantage of non-microphonics and non-labor needed (like adding LN to the dewar).


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