In response to an auxinic herbicide, the plant develops abnormalities such as leaf epinasty, leaf abscission, and growth inhibition of the root and shoots [1], [2], [3], [4].
Although this approach has been widely used in the oil palm industries, the embryogenesis rate is low and a proportion of the tissue culture derived plants exhibited abnormalities.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company that manages the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant reported "no abnormalities found" at the nuclear facility a few hours after the quake.
Homoplasmic tobacco tgz-transgenic plants presented abnormal phenotype with respect to the leaf colour, having pigment deficiencies (Fig. 3A) and thylakoid appression abnormalities (Figure 3B).
She had also observed in other species what she believed to be abnormalities in plant carpels (seed-bearing structures within flowers) and gynoecia (the female reproductive organs of flowers).
Chen and Chen [ 65] reported that high levels of AtWRKY18 cause severe abnormalities in plant growth.
Several studies have explored on the prevention of these the skin abnormalities using plant extracts and phenolic compounds contribute in curing of skin diseases.
BTPC is strongly expressed in the late stage of pollen development, but an AtBTPC-deficient mutant plant, atppc4, showed no abnormalities in pollen development, at least under our experimental growth conditions.
However, the 4.6 kb fragment was found exclusively in plants with some type of flower abnormality, since it was only seen in abnormal plants 19.3, 9, 03, 13.2 and in the intermediate plant 6.
The exo-glucanase overexpressing plants showed various abnormalities in leaf such as division of leaf blade, crack on leaf surface, excess lacunae in midrib structure and necrotic colour change.
