In addition, Mg-deficiency increased the leaf abundances of heat shock proteins (HSPs, L28, 39, 46 and 59, Table 1), which play a key role in protecting plants against stress by reestablishing normal protein conformation and thus cellular homeostasis, and stress-related protein (L76 and 90, Table 1).
Impacts on plant communities by L. terrestris are believed to be mainly indirect, through changes in leaf litter abundance, humus and soil characteristics.
Analyses of quantitative traits related to cotyledon and first leaf stomatal abundance in 62 wild A. thaliana genotypes, evaluated in two sets, have revealed considerable natural genetic variation.
We expected that if differential transcript accumulation of a key regulatory factor(s) accounts for phenotypic variation in leaf shape, abundance of such transcripts should exhibit a significant statistical correlation with leaf lamina shape.
Pyralid and gelechiid leaf-tier abundance has been inversely related to host density at Mount St. Helens in each of the last 15 years (1993 through 2007) [33].
It was found that cotyledon and first leaf cell-abundance traits were marginally or not affected by differences in the ME occurring in laboratory experiments.
They highlight that considering time scales of adaptation for different vegetation properties facilitates differentiating between a short-term response to elevated CO2 (stomatal down-regulation) and a longer term response (increase in leaf area, plant abundance, and potentially, rooting depths).
Proteomic assessment of low-abundance leaf proteins is hindered by the large quantity of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) present within plant leaf tissues.
We examined the effect of experimental fires on leaf-litter arthropod abundance in a seasonally-dry forest in the Brazilian Amazon.
This is the first study that has examined the likely impact of recurrent fires on leaf-litter arthropods abundance and activity in tropical forests.
