Commelina communis

Pantoja, O. Willmer, C.M. (1986). Pressure effects on membrane potentials of mesophyll cell protoplasts and epidermal cell protoplasts of Commelina communis. Journal of Experimental Botany, 37, 315-20. 

Goto, T., Takase, S., and Kondo, T., PMR spectra of natural acylated anthocyanins determination of stereostructure of awobanin, shisonin and violanin (Commelina communis, Viola tricolor, Perilla orimoides). Tetrahedron Lett, 27, 2413, 1978. Agrawal, P.K., NMR spectroscopy in the structural elucidation of ohgosaccharides and glycosides, Phytochemistry, 31, 3307, 1992. 

Kondo, T. et al.. Structural basis of blue-color development in flower petals from Commelina communis. Nature, 358, 515, 1992. 

Commelina communis L. Ya Zhi Cao (Dayflower) (aerial part) Awobanin, commelin, flavocommelitin 33 Antibacterial, antipyretic, diuretic, antiedematic. 

Linum stelleroides Planch., L. usitatissimum L., Commelina communis L. 

P bistorta, P. lapidosa, P. manshuriensis, P vivipara, Psidium guajava, Saururus chinensis, Vaccinium bracteatum, V. vitis-idaea Commelina communis... 

C. ternata Cnidium monnieri Hierochloe odorata Commelina communis... 

Cotinus coggygria, Gleditsia horrida, G. sinensis, G. xylocarpa, Pistacia lentiscus Dryopteris laeta, D. filix-mas Dryopteris crassirhizoma Commelina communis... 

Little chemistry of the family is known alkaloids have not been reported except in an obscure Korean reference to Commelina communis. 

Few studies on the localization of the starch biosynthetic enzymes were done before 1978, when it was found that ADPGlc PPase was located exclusively in the chloroplast fraction in both spinach (Mares et al., 1978) and pea (Levi and Preiss, 1978). The first detailed study was done by Okita et al. (1979), in which spinach leaf chloroplasts were isolated either by differential centrifugation (Walker, 1971 see also later) or from protoplasts (Nishimura et al, 1976). These plastid preparations contained essentially all of the activity of the starch biosynthetic enzymes, ADPGlc PPase, starch synthase, and branching enzyme. Subsequently, in guard cells of Commelina communis, Robinson and Preiss (1987) showed that the starch biosynthetic enzymes were present exclusively in the chloroplast fraction. 

Robinson, N and Preiss, J. 1987. Localization of carbohydrate metabolizing enzymes in guard cells of Commelina communis. Plant Physiol. 85, 360-364. 

Parmar, P.N., and Brearley, C.A., 1995, Metabolism of 3- and 4- phosphorylated phosphatidylinositols in stomatal guard cells of Commelina communis L. Plant J. 8 425033. Pennycooke, J.C., Jones, M.L., and Stushnoff, C., 2003, Down-regulating alpha-galactosidase enhances freezing tolerance in transgenic petunia. Plant Physiol. 133(2) 901-909. 

Plant Material. Growing conditions and treatment of plant material has been described elsewhere for the aquatic weed, Egeria densa PLANCH., in (6), Vicia faba L. in (2), Commelina communis L. in (7) and Cyclamen persicum MILL, in (5). 

Vida faba, Commelina communis, Arabidopsis thaliana [19] = 10 —... 

In 1985, De Silva et al. [74] broached the question of the involvement of a Ca signal by reporting a synergistic effect of ABA and Ca in inhibiting stomatal opening in Commelina communis. They postulated that elevation of [Ca j y, was a component of an ABA-activated second messenger pathway that would reduce influx and thus inhibit stomatal opening. They also observed that Ca channel blockers reduced the ABA effect... 

These hypotheses are considered to be alternatives. Previously, total alkaloids from Commelina communis L. were reported to have an inhibitory action on the growth of influenza HlNl virus in Madin-Darby canine kidney cells. 

Bing EH, Liu J, li Z, Zhang GB, Liao YF, Li J, et al. Anti-influenza-virus activity of total alkaloids from Commelina communis L. Arch Virol 2009 154( 11) 1837-40. 

Alkaloid from the seeds of Lonchocarpus sericeus, Lonchocarpus costaricensis (Leguminosae), Commelina communis and Streptomyces lavendulae. Mannosidase inhibitor. a-Glucosidase inhibitor. 

Alkaloid from Moms spp. (Moraceae), Jacobinia suberecta and Commelina communis. Also prod, by various Bacillus spp. and Streptomyces lavendulae ssp. trehalostaticus. a-Glucosidase inhibitor. Animal feedstuff additive. Shows anti-HIV activity. Antihyperglycaemic activity in vivo. 

The distribution of stomatal apertures in epidermal strips of Commelina communis floating on solutions shifted towards smaller stomatal widths when ABA was added... 

Fig. 3. Frequency distribution of stomatal apertures in illuminated strips from the lower epidermis of leaves of Commelina communis, floating on 80 mM KCl plus the indicated concentrations of ( )-ABA. /Fraction of stomata in a particular aperture class w stomatal aperture upper scales aperture-class numbers. Black fraction of closed stomata...

A blue dye may be derived from the dayflower Commelina communis L. (Commelinaceae) ftiat, according to Schweppe (1992),... 

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