(n.) A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.
(n.) A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical features, botany, phytochemistry, patch testing and ecology of Compositae and Frullania (liverwort) allergic contact phytodermatitis are discussed.
(2) Even the best nurseries will have a few plants with liverworts growing on their surface, because liverworts love damp, bare ground.
(3) Perrottetianal A and B, known substances from liverworts were isolated and characterized by spectroscopic methods as well as alpha-(-)-santonin.
(4) The nucleotide sequence (25,320 base-pairs) of a part of the large single-copy region of chloroplast DNA from the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha was determined.
(5) Comparison of the rice rpo genes with those from tobacco, spinach and liverwort revealed unique features of the rice genes; the lack of an intron in rpoC1 and the presence of an extra sequence of 381 bp in rpoC2.
(6) The entire nucleotide sequences of the rice, tobacco and liverwort chloroplast genomes have been determined.
(7) The plasmalemma of thallus cells of the aquatic liverwort, Riccia fluitans, is reversibly depolarized by L- and D-serine.
(8) Using a probe of liverwort chloroplast DNA, a 10.1-kb region containing a gene cluster consisting of open reading frames (ORF278-frxC-ORF469-ORF248) was isolated from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803.
(9) This ORF is highly homologous to ORF513 found in the corresponding region of liverwort chloroplast DNA and ORF563 located downstream from trnT in Chlamydomonas moewusii chloroplast DNA.
(10) It is hoped the animals will recolonise the tarn and its surrounding streams, and play an important part in the ecosystem, grazing and burrowing into areas of the riverbank and allowing rare plants to grow, including mosses and liverworts that need patches of open habitat.
(11) The gene order around rpl16, 5' rpl22-rps3-rpl16, is identical to that detected in the chloroplast DNA of liverwort, tobacco and maize.
(12) The direction of transcription of both gene copies in rye is toward SSC; that in tobacco and liverwort is toward IR-II.
(13) The gene coding for tRNA(UAALeu) is split by a 232-bp intron which has a secondary structure typical for class-I structured introns and which is closely related to the intron located in the corresponding gene from liverwort and higher plant chloroplasts.
(14) Comparison of this sequence with the sequences of the S18 proteins from tobacco and liverwort chloroplasts and E. coli shows a relatively high similarity, ranging from 42 to 55% identical residues with the B. stearothermophilus S18 protein.
(15) The ORF43 gene was actively transcribed in liverwort chloroplasts.
(16) Notable features of the nucleotide sequence are the loss of an intron in rpoC1 and an insertion of approximately 450 bp in rpoC2 compared to the dicotyledons tobacco, spinach and liverwort.
(17) In contrast, rps2 and rps4 genes were located separately in the liverwort mitochondrial genome (the latter was part of the alpha operon in E. coli).
(18) In addition, a gene for the chloroplast ribosomal protein CL5 was found that is not encoded by the plastome in either higher plants or a liverwort, but has recently been identified in Euglena chloroplast DNA.
(19) Upstream of the gidA sequence, we found a trnN(GUU) gene and an open reading frame of 291 codons which was 78% identical to the frxC gene of liverwort.
(20) ORFx shares a high sequence homology with the long reading frames of tobacco (ORF1708), spinach (ORF2131), and liverwort (ORF2136), while ORF48 shares sequence homology with ORF69 of liverwort and ORF55 of tobacco.
Perianth
Definition:
(n.) The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.
(n.) A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, mutations in another floral homeotic gene, APETALA2 (AP2), result in the replacement of the perianth organs by the reproductive organs.
(2) In ag mutants, the loss of AG function leads to the conversion of these organs to the perianth organs (petals and sepals).
(3) The proper time to pick the flower buds comes when they are fully developed before the perianth appears.