In this way, these analyses contribute to a more general model about the accumulation of deficits with age Our data must be interpreted with caution.
Invertases have been extensively investigated in the context of potato cold sweetening, and several studies have concluded that these enzymes mainly control the hexose/sucrose ratio, ruling out a more general influence on overall sugar accumulation [ 14].
The role of starch accumulation may be more general in PCD: the endosperm cells of starch-deficient maize mutants contained more ethylene and faced accelerated PCD [ 69].
This indicates that what looks like a response to secretion stress, may reflect a more general mechanism not only to alleviate accumulation of unfolded proteins in more extreme conditions, but also to modulate secretion capacity in response to the conditional need for extracellular enzymes.
Along with stilbene accumulation these experiments highlighted a more general response involving peroxidase activity as well as inhibition of Botrytis cinerea growth [ 19, 20].
For these reasons, we believe that considering these processes separately seems a good approximation of a more general process that includes longitudinal changes in deficits accumulation and mortality.
Therefore, additional work comparing heavy metal accumulation across vegetative and reproductive organs of endemic and non-endemic plants from a variety of plant families (e.g. Asteraceae, Caryophyllaceae, Phrymaceae), and thus taking phylogenetic relationships into account regarding variation in metal accumulation, will contribute towards a more general understanding of edaphic endemism.
To test whether the apparent accumulation of cells in telophase was a more general phenomenon, and whether the mitotic checkpoint was intact in cells with reduced UNG2 levels, population analysis was performed by automated quantitative imaging (as in Figure 2E).
In this work we demonstrate the formation of lipid accumulation immediately after infection, indicating that this is a more general parasite strategy, not only confined to macrophages.
We initially designed our study to examine the specific role of retinal carotenoid accumulation in female discrimination of colourful mates, but revealed a much more general role of carotenoids in female choice behavior.
