Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Australia, 2007.

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2005. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 80 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-80).

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2005. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 140 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-140).

Memorial apresentado ao Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do título de Professor Livre-Docente na Dosciplina de Fisiologia Vegetal / Resumo: As sementes de anonáceas são conhecidas por apresentarem mecanismos de dormência, o que dificulta a perpetuação das espécies e a formação de áreas produtivas para a exploração comercial. Deste modo, os objetivos deste trabalho foram estudar curva de aquisição de água; a germinação de sementes tratadas com GA3 e GA4+7 + Benziladenina; o balanço hormonal e a degradação de reservas em sementes de Annona diversifolia Saff e Annona purpurea Moc & Sessé ex Dunal tratadas com reguladores vegetais para a superação da dormência. Para tanto foram realizados três experimentos. Para a construção da curva de aquisição de água foram utilizadas 4 repetições de 25 sementes que foram mantidas em embebição e pesadas durante 480 horas. O segundo experimento foi constituído pela germinação das sementes tratadas com os reguladores vegetais; o delineamento experimental empregado foi o inteiramente casualizado com 4 repetições de 25 sementes por parcela em esquema fatorial 2 x 7 (reguladores x concentrações). Os tratamentos foram constituídos pelas combinações entre concentrações de GA3 e de GA4+7 + Benziladenina (GA4+7 + BA) x 0, 200, 400, 500, 600, 800 e 1000 mg L-1 i.a.. No terceiro experimento foram quantificados ABA (Ácido abscísico) e GA (Giberelinas), proteínas, açúcares... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Annonaceae seeds have been known by presenting dormancy mechanisms, which makes difficult the perpetuation of species and the formation of roductive areas for commercial exploration. Thus, the present work aimed to evaluate water uptake curve; germination of seeds treated with GA3 and GA4+7 + Benzyl adenine; hormone balance and reserve degradation in Annona diversifolia Saff and Annona purpurea Moc & Sessé ex Dunal seeds subjected to plant growth regulators for dormancy break. Three experiments were carried out. To obtain the water uptake curve, four replicates of 25 seeds were kept in imbibition and weighed for 480h. The second experiment evaluated the germination of seeds treated with plant growth regulators; experimental design was completely randomized, with four replicates of 25 seeds per plot in the 2x7 (plant growth regulators x concentrations) factorial arrangement. Treatments consisted of combinations between concentrations of GA3 and GA4+7 + Benzyl adenine (GA4+7 + BA) with 0, 200, 400, 500, 600, 800 and 1000 mg L-1 a.i.. In the third experiment, ABA (abscisic acid), GA (gibberellins), proteins, total soluble sugars and lipids were quantified in seeds soaked in water, without imbibition and soaked in GA4+7 + BA for 15 days (on the 0th, 2nd, 5th, 10th and 15th days). Based... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

No description available.

Seed development, germination and dormancy, considered as the most important phenomena in seeds, are regulated by several plant hormones; gibberellin (GA) and abscisic acid (ABA) being the major players acting antagonistically. The regulation of these seed related processes by GA and ABA is dependent partly on the endogenous levels of the two hormones, which in turn are determined by the balance between their biosynthesis and catabolism. This thesis investigated the spatial and temporal expression patterns of several members of the GA and ABA biosynthetic and catabolic gene families during grain development using a non-dormant cultivar and during imbibition using grains collected from dormant and non-dormant cultivars of barley. In addition, the thesis examined the effect of exogenous ABA treatment, and after-ripening of seeds collected from dormant cultivars on the expression patterns GA and ABA metabolism genes during grain development and imbibition, respectively. The results suggest that specific members of the gene families related to the metabolic pathways of the two hormones exhibit distinct spatial and temporal roles in the regulation of barley grain development, dormancy and germination. / October 2015

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:22:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-12-03Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:09:12Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 farias_et_me_botfca.pdf: 343928 bytes, checksum: d998c3f6cbfb1c91556f0445b48bd677 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A germinação de sementes de café (Coffea arabica L.) é lenta e irregular, controlada por eventos que ocorrem, simultaneamente, no embrião e no endosperma. Embora os referidos eventos estejam determinados, ainda são necessários estudos sobre a fisiologia molecular, para auxiliar na avaliação da qualidade fisiológica das sementes durante a germinação. O objetivo do trabalho foi realizar estudos fisiológicos e moleculares durante a germinação de sementes embebidas em água e em ácido abscísico (ABA) na concentração de 1000 μM. Durante o trabalho foi determinado o teor de água, a curva de embebição, a germinação, o crescimento do embrião e a expressão dos genes associados com o crescimento do embrião e com a degradação do endosperma micropilar. Para tanto, embriões e os endospermas micropilares foram isolados para a extração de RNA total e síntese de cDNA. “Primers” específicos foram desenhados para o estudo da expressão gênica em PCR em tempo real. Foi estudada a expressão dos genes actina, ciclina e α-expansina, associados ao crescimento do embrião, e α-galactosidase, β-manosidase e endo-β-mananase, associados à degradação do endosperma micropilar. A curva de embebição apresentou um padrão trifásico. A primeira semente de café germinou com cinco dias de embebição e 50% de germinação ocorreram no décimo dia de embebição. A expressão dos genes associados com o crescimento do embrião, tais como actina, α-expansina e quinase dependente de ciclina, aumentou durante a germinação em água e inibiu parcialmente a expressão destes genes quando tratados com ABA. A expressão de β-manosidase e endo-β-mananase aumentou durante a embebição em água e ABA inibiu completamente a expressão. No entanto, α-galactosidase parece ter a expressão mais constitutiva durante a germinação em água e é menos influenciada por ABA, em comparação com outras enzimas estudadas / Germination of coffee (Coffea arabica L.) seed is slow and uneven. The germination is a net result of events that occur simultaneously in the embryo and endosperm under the control of ABA. The aim of the study was to perform physiological and molecular studies during germination of seeds imbibed in water and 1000 μM abscisic acid (ABA). We studied the expression of the genes ciclin, α-expansin and cyclin-dependent of kinase in the embryo and α-galactosidase, β-mannosidase, endo-β-mannanase in the micropylar endosperm. The first coffee seed germinate at five days of imbibition and 50% germinate at tenth day of imbibition. Coffee embryo grew inside the seed pior radicle protrusion and ABA inhibited the embryo grow as well as radicle protrusion. The expression of the genes associated with the growth of the embryo such as ciclin, α-expansin and cyclin-dependent of kinase increased during germination and ABA partially inhibited the expression of these genes. The expression of β-mannosidase and endo-β-mannanase increased during imbibitions in water and ABA completely inhibited its expression. However, α-galactosidase seems to have a more constitutive expression during germination in water and it is less affected by ABA as compared with other enzymes studied

No description available.

The plant hormone, abscisic acid (ABA), has previously been shown to have an impact on the resistance or susceptibility of plants to pathogens. In this thesis, it was shown that ABA had a regulatory effect on an extensive array of plant defence responses in three different plant and pathogen interaction combinations as well as following the application of an abiotic elicitor. In unique studies using ABA deficient mutants of Arabidopsis, exogenous ABA addition or ABA biosynthesis inhibitor application and simulated drought stress, ABA was shown to have a profound effect on the outcome of interactions between plants and pathogens of differing lifestyles and from different kingdoms. The systems used included a model plant and an important agricultural species: Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) and Peronospora parasitica (a biotrophic Oomycete pathogen), Arabidopsis and Pseudomonas syringae pathovar tomato (a biotrophic bacterial pathogen) and an unrelated plant species, soybean (Glycine max) and Phytophthora sojae (a hemibiotrophic Oomycete pathogen), Generally, a higher than basal endogenous ABA concentration within plant tissues at the time of avirulent pathogen inoculation, caused an interaction shift towards what phenotypically resembled susceptibility. Conversely, a lower than basal endogenous ABA concentration in plants inoculated with a virulent pathogen caused a shift towards resistance. An extensive suppressive effect of ABA on defence responses was revealed by a range of techniques that included histochemical, biochemical and molecular approaches. A universal effect of ABA on suppression or induction of the phenylpropanoid pathway via regulation of the key entry point gene, phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL), when stimulated by biotic or abiotic elicitors was shown. ABA also influenced a wide variety of other defence-related components such as: the development of a hypersensitive response (HR), the accumulation of the reactive oxyden species, hydrogen peroxide and the cell wall strengthening compounds lignin and callose, accumulation of SA and the phytoalexin, glyceollin and the transcription of the SA-dependent pathogenesis- related gene (PR-1). The near genome-wide microarray gene expression analysis of an ABA induced susceptible interaction also revealed an yet unprecedented insight into the great diversity of defence responses that were influenced by ABA that included: disease resistance like proteins, antimicrobial proteins as well as phenylpropanoid and tryptophan pathway enzymes. Subtle differences were found in the number and type of defence responses that were regulated by ABA in each type of plant and pathogen interaction that was studied. This thesis has clearly identified in plant/pathogen interactions previously unknown and important roles for ABA in the regulation of many defence responses.