The Mansion of Morning Glories

On the ground of archival and bibliographic materials, the author has prepared a historical certificate for the Biysk merchant dwelling mansion within the development of the draft of the territory boundaries and the land-use regime for the object of cultural heritage. This article provides information about the history and first owner ofthe building, as well as the further use of this object from the end of the XIX century and to the present. There is also information about another estate property of entrepreneur V.A. Krichevtsev and his relatives, located in Biysk, as well as about the type of activity of the owner of the mansion, who traded with North-Western Mongolia with various goods, was engaged in cattle- and horse-breeding. The building consists of several one-, two-story volumes of one height, has a basement, and a complex attic roof. The pronounced angular facade composition is richly decorated along the street and part of the courtyard facade and at the front entrance. The object has value as an urban building with eclectic decoration, also has urban planning significance, formalizing the intersection of streets. Keywords: merchant mansion, dwelling house, brick building, cultural heritage object, architectural monument

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Diversification of ergot alkaloids and heritable fungal symbionts in morning glories

Communications Biology ◽

10.1038/s42003-021-02870-z ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Wesley T. Beaulieu ◽

Daniel G. Panaccione ◽

Quynh N. Quach ◽

Katy L. Smoot ◽

Keith Clay

Keyword(s):

Seed Mass ◽

Ergot Alkaloids ◽

Life Cycles ◽

Morning Glory ◽

Medical Applications ◽

Functional Roles ◽

Defensive Symbiosis ◽

Microbe Interactions ◽

Alkaloid Profiles ◽

Morning Glories

AbstractHeritable microorganisms play critical roles in life cycles of many macro-organisms but their prevalence and functional roles are unknown for most plants. Bioactive ergot alkaloids produced by heritable Periglandula fungi occur in some morning glories (Convolvulaceae), similar to ergot alkaloids in grasses infected with related fungi. Ergot alkaloids have been of longstanding interest given their toxic effects, psychoactive properties, and medical applications. Here we show that ergot alkaloids are concentrated in four morning glory clades exhibiting differences in alkaloid profiles and are more prevalent in species with larger seeds than those with smaller seeds. Further, we found a phylogenetically-independent, positive correlation between seed mass and alkaloid concentrations in symbiotic species. Our findings suggest that heritable symbiosis has diversified among particular clades by vertical transmission through seeds combined with host speciation, and that ergot alkaloids are particularly beneficial to species with larger seeds. Our results are consistent with the defensive symbiosis hypothesis where bioactive ergot alkaloids from Periglandula symbionts protect seeds and seedlings from natural enemies, and provide a framework for exploring microbial chemistry in other plant-microbe interactions.

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«THE FLOWERS OF WALLPAPERS, THE CHAINS OF BOOKS…» (ON V. BRUSOV’S STUDY ROOM IN THE MUSEUM OF LITERATURE OF THE SILVER AGE)

Brusov Readings ◽

10.31377/brus.vi0.617 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 349-356

Author(s):

MIKHAIL SHAPOSHNIKOV ◽

MONIKA ORLOVA

Keyword(s):

Silver Age ◽

Ground Floor ◽

The Mansion

The paper is devoted to V.Brusov’s study room, on the ground floor of the mansion located on the First Meschanskaya Street (currently Avenue of Peace) in Moscow. The paper describes the furniture, the renowned visitors’ impressions, dwells upon the poetic meetings V. Brusov initiated in his study room on Wednesdays. Currently the study hosts the Museum of Literature of the Silver Age.

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