(n.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod.
(n.) A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fibre of carrot and cabbage was similarly composed of nearly equal amounts of neutral and acidic polysaccharides, whereas pea-hull fibre had four times as much neutral as acidic polysaccharides.
(2) Treatment of tall peas with the growth retardant AMO-1618 reduces growth and oxidase activity.
(3) An element located between 60 bases and 137 bases upstream from the poly(A) addition sites in a pea rbcS gene was needed for functioning of these sites.
(4) Microsomal membrane preparations from growing regions of etiolated pea stems catalyzed the transfer of [14C]fucosyl units from GDP-[U-14C]-L-fucose into exogenously added xyloglucan acceptors, as well as into endogenous xyloglucan.
(5) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(6) Substitution of para-ethoxyamphetamine (PEA), para-methoxyamphetamine (PMA), or saline produced similar results; in all cases responding decreased substantially.
(7) One type of competitive interaction among rhizobia is that between nonnodulating and nodulating strains of Rhizobium leguminosarum on primitive pea genotypes.
(8) AMPH, TYR, PEA and OCT had qualitatively similar effects on endogenous DA and [3H]DA release.
(9) Positive cDNA clones isolated from both a pea leaf and embryo lambda gt11 expression library using an antibody raised against the purified lipoamide dehydrogenase proved to be the product of a single gene.
(10) The pea lectin disappeared slowlier from the intestinal contents than did the three other radiolabelled proteins (2 h) which gave the highest radioactive materials in the livers.
(11) Several biochemical abnormalities are associated with the deficiency of AP activity, e.g., increased urinary excretion of inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi) and phosphoethanolamine (PEA).
(12) Photosynthetic carbon assimilation and associated CO(2)-dependent O(2) evolution by chloroplasts isolated from pea shoots and spinach leaves is almost completely inhibited by 10mm-dl-glyceraldehyde.
(13) Mepyramine antagonized the effects of 2-MH, PEA and H, and partially antagonized the depression induced by 4-MH.
(14) In comparing amphetamine-induced stereotypy with PEA-induced stereotypy, we found that the alpha-adrenergic blocking agents phentolamine and phenoxybenzamine selectively antagonize PEA stereotypy, whereas the beta-adrenergic blocking agent propranolol fails to alter significantly stereotypies evoked by PEA or amphetamine administration.
(15) From Pakistan to Bangladesh, from Sri Lanka to the West Indies, red lentils, green lentils, split peas, mung beans, kidney beans, chick peas and others are being turned into dhals.
(16) Both PMA and PEA had effects on response rate which were similar to those of amphetamine, although PMA had slightly greater rate-decreasing effects than the other two compounds.
(17) The results showed that the pea ctDNA circular dimers consisted of two monomer length units integrated in tandem repeat.
(18) The effects of 3, 4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA) and L-tyrosine on the efflux of free and conjugated DA, 3, 4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) and homovanillic acid from slices from striatum in rats were studied under quiescent conditions and during release evoked by 40 mM K+ or by 5 X 10(-5) M phenylethylamine (PEA).
(20) [14C]Fucose-labeled XG nonasaccharide was synthesized by pea fucosyltransferase and shown to be incorporated into polymeric XG in the presence of seed XG-ase without the net production of new reducing chain ends, even while the loss of XG viscosity and XG depolymerization were enhanced.
Pela
Definition:
(n.) See Wax insect, under Wax.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two of the genes, pelA and pelE, encoded proteins that differed greatly in their isoelectric points and ability to macerate plant tissue.
(2) The in vivo studies compared the tissue reaction elicited by various PELA copolymers to that evoked by PLA.
(3) Plasma endorphinlike activity (PELA) rose with hypovolemia and then returned toward control levels in all NAL treated animals before reinfusion of shed blood while it remained elevated in S-treated animals until after reinfusion.
(4) When both carbon sources were present, the pelA gene was transcribed only after glucose was completely depleted, indicating carbon catabolite repression.
(5) Nucleotide sequence of pelA and the deduced polypeptide sequence of PLa were compared with the pelB gene of E. carotovora and the deduced amino acid sequence of PLb.
(6) The mass loss was faster, the more basic the media, while, expectedly, PELA copolymers degraded faster with the higher temperature.
(7) The pelA and pelC genes from Erwinia chrysanthemi EC16 were sequenced and overexpressed in Escherichia coli cells.
(8) pelA encodes a 1,300-nucleotide mRNA that was present in cells grown with polygalacturonic acid as carbon source but absent from cells grown with glucose or acetate as carbon source.
(9) Genes pelA, pelD and pelE were subcloned separately into pBR322 derivatives, to test their individuality.
(10) Evaluation of tissue reaction observed with a PELA sample after sterilization with gamma radiation showed acute inflammation with considerable dispersion of the material, 12 days after implantation.
(11) NAL and MP each significantly lowered PELA levels and both NAL and NAL plus MP significantly improved survival.
(12) The pelA, pelD and pelE genes encode three of the five major pectate lyase (PL) isoenzymes (PLa, PLd and PLe) in Erwinia chrysanthemi strains B374 and 3937.
(13) In this study, both drugs were given concurrently during shock to evaluate hemodynamic changes, plasma endorphin-like activity (PELA), and survival.
(14) The PLa was purified from Escherichia coli containing the pelA gene on a recombinant plasmid.
(15) The pelA gene from Erwinia chrysanthemi strain 3937, which encodes the acidic pectate lyase, PLa, has been sequenced and characterized.
(16) The regulation of pelA, pelD, and pelE genes encoding three of the five major pectate lyase isoenzymes (PLa, PLd, and PLe) in Erwinia chrysanthemi B374 was analyzed by using genetic fusions to lacZ.
(17) Cloning of the pelA gene behind the lacZ promoter of the vector pTZ19R allowed overexpression of PLa into a derivative of strain 3937 deleted of the other pel genes.
(18) The pelA gene mRNA was detected only when F. solani f. sp.
(19) We studied the effects of each mutation on pelE, pelD, and pelA expression independently.
(20) Genes pelD and pelE are transcribed in the same direction, while the transcription of pelA seems to be divergent.