Funaria hygrometrica

Krupa, J. (1964). Studies on the physiology of germination of spores of Funaria hygrometrica (Sibth.). I. The influence of light on germination with respect to water balance and respiratory processes. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 33 177-192. 

It has been evidenced that auxin and ACC stimulate ethylene production in some lower plants, for example, in the moss Funaria hygrometrica and in the ferns Pteridium aquilinum and Matteuccia struthiopteris Moreover, ethylene synthesis via the ACC-dependent pathway and in the presence of endogenous ACC and its conjugate in marine unicellular Acetabularia algae was reported. Probably during the evolution of land plants, a relatively primitive pathway of ethylene production was replaced by the ACC-dependent synthesis pathway that now predominates. 

Padidam, M., Venkatesvarlu, K. Johri, M.M. (1991). Ammonium represses NADPH-nitrate reductase in the moss Funaria hygrometrica. Plant Science 75, 184-94. 

Fig. 3. Funaria hygrometrica Bud induction by kinetin in isolated single cells a, b) and intact filaments (c, d).

Cells of Funaria hygrometrica protonema were cultured at an initial inoculum density of 0.05 mg mb in MMG buffered with 15 mM, pH 5.0 sodium succinate buffer. 

Cells of Funaria hygrometrica were cultured in MMG at an inoculum density of 0.05 mg ml. Responses were scored 6 days after culture. The pH of the medium in lAA-treated cultures of the mutant remains below 5. Predominant implies > 80% filaments. The mutant was isolated following mutagenesis with nitrosomethyl urea and was identified directly on the basis of altered morphology on lAA-containing medium (MMJ unpublished). Fresh weight in control was 0.68 g 1. ... 

Rudolph U., Gross H., and Schnepf E. 1989. Investigation of the turnover of the putative cellulose-synthesizing particle rosettes within the plasma membrane of Funaria hygrometrica protonema cells. Protoplasma 148 57-69. 

Shaw, J., Anderson, L. E. and Mishler, B. D. (1989) Peristome development in mosses in relation to systematics and evolution. HI. Funaria hygrometrica, Bryum pseudocapillare, and B. bicolor. Systematic Botany, 14 24-36. 

Funaria hygrometrica Hedw. M. L. Sargent June 6, 1980 (UC-Culture) U.S., Illinois — AF226818 — —... 

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