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The cellular wound healing assay is widely used and improved by researchers to study the role of various experimental conditions such as gene knockout and chemo

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The preparation of plant protoplasts can be used for: (1) due to its ability to regenerate cell walls, carry out successive cell divisions and regenerate comple

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It is a kind of technology that uses micrographic device to record the microstructure of the objects observed in the field of view of microscope for further ana

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Mitosis, also known as indirect division, was first discovered in animals by W. Fleming (1882) and in plants by E. Strasburger (1880). Characterized by the pres

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Amylase in plants hydrolyzes stored starch into maltose. Amylase is present in almost all plants, with the strongest amylase activity in cereal seeds. There are

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Aims and Requirements: To learn the basic morphological structures and types of seeds and types of seedlings. Learn the methods of seed germination and understa

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Observe the secondary structure of common plant stems through a microscope, the structural characteristics of the secondary protective tissue peridermis, the st

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Understand the activating and inhibiting effects of enzymatic reactions; learn the methods and principles by which activators and inhibitors affect enzymatic re

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The root system of plants is the main organ of fertilizer and water absorption, as well as the organ of assimilation, transformation and synthesis of many subst

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Tear the epidermis of purple onion or radish leaves, put it on a slide, add a little drop of water and then cover the coverslip, observe the cells in the prepar

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H2O2 is strongly absorbed at 240 nm, and catalase decomposes hydrogen peroxide, causing the absorbance of the reaction solution (A240) to decrease with reaction

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Chlorophyll is an ester of a dicarboxylic acid that saponifies with a base to form a basic salt of chlorophyllic acid; after the formation of the salt, chloroph

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Plant seeds often exist in many substances that can produce fluorescence under ultraviolet irradiation, such as certain flavonoids, coumarins, vegetal, phenolic

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The protoplasmic membrane of living cells has the ability to selectively absorb substances, while the protoplasmic membrane of dead cells loses this ability, so

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Quantitative determination of erythromycin-like substances have many methods: such as barley dextrin layer α-amylase-induced formation method, acid mold leaf g

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Hill reaction (Hill reaction) is a reaction in which isolated chloroplasts of green plants decompose water in the presence of light, releasing oxygen and at the

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The root system is the main organ of the plant body, and its growth is closely related to the speed of water and mineral uptake by the plant. Therefore, it is o

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Through the experiment, master the principle and method of observing the stomatal opening and closing condition of plant leaves by the infiltration method.

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Transpiration is an important process of water metabolism in plants. The speed of transpiration is related to the rate of upward transport of mineral salts and

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The law of interlocking inheritance describes the relationship between the segregation and combination of interlocking genes located on a pair of homologous chr

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Analyze morphological features such as chromosome number, size, position of the mitotic grain and follower in plant cells at mid-mitosis, and learn the methods

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The root tip compression technique can be used to: study chromosome number and morphology in mid-stage plants.

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1. to understand the principles and methods of artificially induced polyploid plants and their significance; 2, to observe the various variations in the number

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Understand that when chromosome structure is mutated, chromosome bridges or chromosome breaks can be observed in mitotic cells at later stages, and micronuclei

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This chapter describes a method similar to the Arabidopsis inflorescence imbibition method for the transformation of wheat floral organs. Instead of relying on

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Wheat, as one of the major global crops, is processed into a range of food products for consumer consumption. Therefore, it is of great importance to determine

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The study of insertion patterns and loci of exogenous genes in transgenic plants greatly contributes to the understanding of the mechanisms of integration, expr

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Within this chapter, we present a protocol for extracting total protein from wood-forming tissues (secondary xylem in differentiation). This protocol has been u

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Seeds may contain different components, like starch and polysaccharides, which can severely reduce the amount of protein extracted. The proteins in cereal plant

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The integrity of the proteome of subcellular components such as the nucleus is largely determined by whether or not other cellular contaminants are removed from

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Immunoblotting using polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF ) membranes is the most commonly used method for Edman sequencing. Protein samples are transferred from a 2

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Like other eukaryotic cells, glycosylation is one of the most studied post-translational events in plant cells. Depending on the type of connection between the

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PROTICdb is a web-based database designed primarily to store and analyze plant proteomic data obtained by 2D polyacrylamide electrophoresis and mass spectrometr

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Plant identification is a means of determining the name of a plant, checking the name of a plant rather than fixing a name. Nomenclature is to name a newly disc

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Down-regulation of endogenous gene expression by post-transcriptional horizontal gene silencing (PTGS) is a key to characterize plant gene function. Many RNA le

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Phenolic substances in plant tissues are oxidized to Da by polyphenol oxidase, and Da can automatically polymerize into colorful substances and browning occurs.

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The extraction of plant DNA is a basic technique in plant molecular biology and genetic engineering research, and several methods such as CTAB method, SDS metho

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The speed of transpiration is related to the speed of mineral salt transportation in the plant and leaf temperature, etc. The transpiration rate can be used as

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The osmotic potential of plant cells mainly depends on the concentration of solutes in the vesicles, and some plants actively accumulate solutes in their cells

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Phenylalanine ammonia-dissolving enzyme (PAD) plays an important role in regulating the formation of secondary substances such as lignin, phytoalexins, flavonoi

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Vitamin C is one of the most important vitamins in human nutrition and a deficiency can lead to scurvy. Fruits and vegetables are the main source of vitamin C f

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The phenomena of single salt toxicity and inter-ionic antagonism are simple experiments to illustrate the importance of the balance of various ions (various ion

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Nitrate reductase is a key enzyme in the metabolic action of plant nitrogen and is associated with the ability of crops to take up and utilize nitrate nitrogen.

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Determination of malondialdehyde content in plant tissues is to understand the factors of malondialdehyde (malondialdehyde, MDA ) formation in living organisms;

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NO3- taken up by plant roots must be metabolically reduced before it can be further utilized by the plant. Nitrate reductase (EC.1.6.6.1, abbreviated as NR) is

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Ascorbic acid, i.e. vitamin C, is widely found in fresh fruits and vegetables, and it is a highly active substance involved in many metabolic activities. Ascorb

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The isolation and preparation of plant chloroplasts is an important technical condition for the study of the structure and function of chloroplasts and the mech

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When plants age or are exposed to adversity, the metabolism of reactive oxygen species is enhanced in the body resulting in the accumulation of H2O2, which caus

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Hill reaction (Hill reaction) is a reaction in which the isolated chloroplasts of green plants decompose water in the light, release oxygen, and at the same tim

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Polyphenol oxidase (PP0) is widely present in plant tissues, and can oxidize phenolic substances to Da substances, but this reaction does not occur frequently i

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Respiration rate is one of the most important indicators of the strength of plant life activities. The size of the respiration rate of plants varies depending o

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Under normal conditions, the free proline content of plants is very low, but when encountering adversities such as drought, low temperature, salinity and alkali

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Betaine is a widely distributed cytocompatible substance, and many plants accumulate large amounts of betaine in their cells under salinity and drought stress,

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Many biotic and abiotic adversities induce the production of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), and h2o2 plays an important role as a signaling molecule in plant stress

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Starch is the main storage material of plants, mostly in seeds, roots and tubers. Starch is not only an important nutrient, but also has a wide range of industr

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To learn and understand the principles and methods of the 3,5-dinitrosalicylic acid (DNS) method for the determination of cellulase activity, and to understand

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Tannins are generally considered to be water-soluble polyphenolic compounds with a molecular mass of 500-3,000 ku0 In addition to their phenolic properties, tan

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Freehand sectioning is a method of holding a blade or razor and cutting fresh or fixed material into thin slices, which are then mounted and used for microscopi

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Alkaloids are natural nitrogen-containing organic compounds, but do not include amino acids, proteins, nucleic acids, chlorophyll, choline, methylamine and othe

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In order to illustrate in a simple way the structure of a flower, the composition, arrangement and interrelationship of its parts, the parts of a flower can be

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Due to their large size and opacity, plants cannot be viewed directly under a microscope. To study the internal structure of the plant, the thickness and volume

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Various organisms in nature have relative stability in the form, structure and number of their chromosomes. The complete set of chromosomes contained in the gam

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Programmed cell death (PCD) is a genetically regulated process that actively removes excess, injured cells during plant growth and development or in response to

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Genetic diversity is a historical product of organisms formed in the course of long-term evolution and is an important component of biological diversity. The si

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Water potential is the potential energy that drives the movement of water through an organism. Water always moves from a higher to a lower water potential in th

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Plant tissue water content is an important indicator of plant water status. Plant tissue water content not only directly affects plant growth, stomatal conditio

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