Exposure of 25 °C-grown, seven-day-old rice seedlings to mild heat stress of 40 °C for 24 h in dark did not cause any change in protein or pigment content of the thylakoids, but produced major disorganization of chloroplast ...

Na+/H+ antiporters mediated pH regulation is one of the known mechanism(s), which advocates a possible role of the antiporters in the alkaline pH tolerance of Arthrospira platensis NIES-39. Seven putative Na+/H+ antiporters ...

Exposure o f isolated thylakoids or intact plants to elevated temperature is known to inhibit photosynthesis at multiple sites. We have investigated the effect of elevated temperature (40°C) for 24 hr in dark on rice ...

The after-effects of 24 h high temperature (35 or 45 ~ treatment on the photochemical activities and photooxidative lipid peroxidation, subsequent to their irradiation were studied in 7-d-old etiolated rice (Oryza sativa) ...

Optimum maturity and ripeness at the time of harvest is highly important to maintain the nutritional parameters of fruits. Maturity and ripeness of most of the fruit samples depends on various physiochemical parameters ...

The concentration of proline in shoots of rice (Oryza sativa) seedlings raised in distilled water was about 3.3 times higher than in the seedlings raised in modified B5 medium. The shoots of seedlings raised in B5 medium ...

The growing energy needs and depleting fuel sources compel us to look towards production of biodiesel, an appropriate alternative. The industrially used chemical catalysis process is beset with problems that enzymatic ...

We studied the development of chloroplasts from etioplasts in the cotyledonary leaves of 4-d-old dark-grown cucumber (Cucumis sativus) seedlings after irradiation (20 μmol m-2 s-1). Upon irradiation, the triggering of ...