Higher Plants as Indicators and Accumulators of Gaseous Air Pollution

1983 ◽  
pp. 263-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Posthumus
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Higher Plants

Untersuchungen zur endogenen Bildung von polycyclisdien Kohlenwasserstoffen in höheren Pflanzen / Investigation of Biosynthetic Formation of Polycyclic Hydrocarbons in Higher Plants

1970 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 1171-1175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gernot Grimmer ◽  
Dietrich Düvel
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Tobacco Plants ◽  
Polycyclic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Air Supply ◽  
Cellulose Filter

Salad, soybeans, rye and tobacco plants, grown on field in the open air or in greenhouses contain benzo (e) pyrene, benzo (a) pyrene, perylene, anthanthrene, benzo (ghi) perylene, dibenzo (a,h) anthracene, and coronene through air pollution. Plants of the same seeds, grown in a special room with air supply by filter-combination (cellulose filter + filtering charcoal + special filters) and with air lock for personnel (changed clothes) show non of the polycyclic hydrocarbons.Under these conditions, it is not possible to find any hints at biosynthesis of the above mentioned polycyclic hydrocarbons.

In vitro and in vivo polysaccharides assembly: ultrastructural and cytochemical study of growing plant cell wall components.

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 434-435
Author(s):  
D. Reis ◽  
B. Vian ◽  
J. C. Roland
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Plant Cell Wall ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Cytochemical Study ◽  
Wall Components

Wall morphogenesis in higher plants is a problem still open to controversy. Until now the possibility of a transmembrane control and the involvement of microtubules were mostly envisaged. Self-assembly processes have been observed in the case of walls of Chlamydomonas and bacteria. Spontaneous gelling interactions between xanthan and galactomannan from Ceratonia have been analyzed very recently. The present work provides indications that some processes of spontaneous aggregation could occur in higher plants during the formation and expansion of cell wall.Observations were performed on hypocotyl of mung bean (Phaseolus aureus) for which growth characteristics and wall composition have been previously defined.In situ, the walls of actively growing cells (primary walls) show an ordered three-dimensional organization (fig. 1). The wall is typically polylamellate with multifibrillar layers alternately transverse and longitudinal. Between these layers intermediate strata exist in which the orientation of microfibrils progressively rotates. Thus a progressive change in the morphogenetic activity occurs.

Localization of Adenosine Triphosphatase Activity in the Phleom of Nicotiana Tabacum

1972 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 230-231
Author(s):  
James Cronshaw ◽  
Jamison E. Gilder
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Atpase Activity ◽  
Adenosine Triphosphatase ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
High Surface ◽  
Root Tip ◽  
Animal Cells ◽  
Physiological Processes ◽  
Tip Cells ◽  
Atpase Localization

Adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activity has been shown to be associated with numerous physiological processes in both plants and animal cells. Biochemical studies have shown that in higher plants ATPase activity is high in cell wall preparations and is associated with the plasma membrane, nuclei, mitochondria, chloroplasts and lysosomes. However, there have been only a few ATPase localization studies of higher plants at the electron microscope level. Poux (1967) demonstrated ATPase activity associated with most cellular organelles in the protoderm cells of Cucumis roots. Hall (1971) has demonstrated ATPase activity in root tip cells of Zea mays. There was high surface activity largely associated with the plasma membrane and plasmodesmata. ATPase activity was also demonstrated in mitochondria, dictyosomes, endoplasmic reticulum and plastids.

A Scanning Electron Microscopic Study of Pro-Vascular Cellular Morphology in Chaetophora Incressata

1985 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 638-639
Author(s):  
A. E. Hotchkiss ◽  
A. T. Hotchkiss ◽  
R. P. Apkarian
Keyword(s):  
Green Algae ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Vascular System ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Wall Structure ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Physiological Processes ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopic Study ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopic ◽  
Scanning Electron

Multicellular green algae may be an ancestral form of the vascular plants. These algae exhibit cell wall structure, chlorophyll pigmentation, and physiological processes similar to those of higher plants. The presence of a vascular system which provides water, minerals, and nutrients to remote tissues in higher plants was believed unnecessary for the algae. Among the green algae, the Chaetophorales are complex highly branched forms that might require some means of nutrient transport. The Chaetophorales do possess apical meristematic groups of cells that have growth orientations suggestive of stem and root positions. Branches of Chaetophora incressata were examined by the scanning electron microscope (SEM) for ultrastructural evidence of pro-vascular transport.

Evidence for a plasma membrane proton pump in phloem cells of higher plants.

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
ND DeWitt ◽  
JF Harper ◽  
MR Sussman
Keyword(s):  
Plasma Membrane ◽  
Proton Pump ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Plasma Membrane Proton Pump

Air Pollution

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Seigneur
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution
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