(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.
Thallus
Definition:
(n.) A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peripheral hyphae were separated from the remaining thallus of Rhizoctonia solani in exponential and stationary phases of growth.
(2) The plasmalemma of thallus cells of the aquatic liverwort, Riccia fluitans, is reversibly depolarized by L- and D-serine.
(3) Their variations depend on the physiological and biochemical states of the thallus and on the conditions of extraction and purification.
(4) Thallus development, zoospore size, zoospore ultrastructural complexity and organization, and flagellum length are cited as important in phylogeny of the Chytridiales (chytrids) and should be the bases for this classification.
(5) Previous results showed that cell disintegration in the fungus Podospora anserina occured through the action of two proteases, enzymes whose messengers were normally latent during the extension stage of the thallus.
(6) There are no significant differences in the durrent density over the thallus cell.
(7) Little bromoperoxidase activity was obtained when fresh thallus material was extracted in Tris buffer.
(8) Incipient zoospores are produced from a multinucleate eucarpic thallus and devlop within cleavage vacuoles containing flagella.
(9) The action spectra of light reaction I, we found under these conditions, are very similar to the thallus absorption, whilst the action spectra of light reaction II show, besides strong bands of the phycobilins, only minor bands of chlorophyll a, which account for only 10-20% of the total chlorophyll.
(10) When a particulate enzyme preparation from the thallus of A. niger was incubated with GDP-[(14)C]mannose, the main radioactive products were mannose 1-phosphate (57% of products) and mannose (18%).
(11) In the presence of 10(-5) to 10 (-8) M carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP) the membrane potential of thallus cells of the aquatic liverwort Riccia fluitans responds to changes of the external pH between 5.5 and 8.3.
(12) Many things, in Thoreau's liberated state, are worth the while to see - the feeding manners of chickadees, and the trickles of spring thaw along the railroad cut, "resembling, as you look down on them, the laciniated lobed and imbricated thalluses of some lichens".
(13) By the four-cell stage, chloroplasts of the rhizoid cells have weakly staining lamellae, while chloroplasts of the thallus cells are actively dividing with deeply staining lamellae.
(14) These observations are interpreted as evidence that the thallus of A. niger contains a mannose transferase that uses the phosphate of exo-methylene-hexahydropolyprenols as an acceptor.
(15) This study demonstrates that it is possible to select for more and more toxigenic strains or for less and less active ones starting with the same thallus.
(16) Bromoperoxidase I (which has been described before) was located inside the thallus, particularly around the conceptacles, whereas bromoperoxidase II was present at the thallus surface of the alga.
(17) Using fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled lectins of various specificities, differences in the cell wall polysaccharide composition among the different parts of the thallus and during the cycle of S communis were demonstrated.
(18) We selected three mutant strains in which the constitutive activity of the protease messengers was expressed by an arrest of growth early in development (10 to 30 hours after spore germination) and a reaction of cell disintegration, in the thallus, suppressible with beta-phenyl pyruvic acid, a protease inhibitor.
(19) The enzyme activity is first detected in a few algae undergoing aplanosporogenesis and later in medullary hyphae that reach the dividing algae by elongating perpendicularly to the thallus surface.
(20) The thallus and life cycle of Neocallimastix R1 are compared with those of aerobic chytrids.