During abscission in tomato different processes occur in distal part of leaf or flower petiole that will fall off, compared to proximal part that remains on the plant. An important process in distal part is programmed cell death, where nucleases and enzymes of oxidative stress are expressed. Cells in the proximal part are alive and metabolically active. In abscission zone we observed expression of enzymes that degrade middle lamella and rapid changes in expression of enzymes involved in ethylene metabolism.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28604199
We describe the impact of endoreduplication level on adventitious plant regeneration from explants of pumpkin cotyledons. Endoreduplication is a variant of cell cycle where DNA is duplicated several times. Endoreduplicated cells no longer divide, therefore the regeneration ability is negatively affected.
COBISS.SI-ID: 7983737
In Europe, phytoplasma cause major damage on grapevine, therefore we developed a fast and efficient method for detection using isothermal nucleic acid amplification (LAMP) that can be performed in the field. LAMP assay was shown to the specific and sensitive, comparable to quantitative real-time PCR detection.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3175247