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TGase activities were detected in different cell compartments ( Della Mea et al., 2007b ); activity prevailed in the microsome fraction, where it is in general higher in the proximal part of petals, peaking at the corolla opening, and in the plastids, where it shows an increasing trend.

This finding suggests that en b cell fate requires this same pathway but there may be significant redundancy and/or signaling feedback loops that are not fully understood.

Moreover, the statistical interaction between the eight ‘cultivars’ and the four ‘dates’ was highly significant ( Table 2 ) indicating that the attractiveness of grape cultivars towards D. suzukii changed over time.

Differences in genomic content among maize lines is well known, for example, the genome size of the Mo17 and B73 lines are estimated to differ by 0.13 pg (see Figueroa and Bass, 2012 ), and highly significant variation in 4C DNA content in maize varieties, ranging from 9.84 to 13.49 pg, has been reported ( Laurie and Bennett, 1985 ).

We detected highly significant positive correlations between FT and several growth related parameters in general, i.e. averaged across the two water conditions, and in response to wd (Figure 1 , Table 1 ).

Overall, an increasing trend was observed in the MBC and MBN values at higher percentages of Zn amendment to the soil.

This was in agreement with earlier studies of soybean (Severin et al., 2010 ) and Arabidopsis (Le et al., 2010 ) which had suggested that most genes involved in various seed functions are shared by all stages of seed development although there might be significant changes in their transcriptional activities.

Despite weakly significant interaction effects between variables, it appears that the charcoal reflectance values measured in this study are primarily driven by the fuel types being burned (Figure 6 ).

Vice versa, shows S * f a clear trend with the average temperature at the simulated sites (Figure 10B ), whilst that response is weak for S * c (results not shown).

pinnata shoots showed a slight trend to be inversely correlated with S supply, the negative effect of increasing sulfate levels on Se accumulation was only 2–3-fold, much less pronounced than for B. juncea (Figures 1A,C ).

More experiments are needed to determine whether this trend may be significant with more replication.

In all three populations, a non-linear regression curve exhibiting a decreasing trend of LD decay with an increase in the physical distance (kb) was observed.

As the data did not indicate a clear trend, they were not considered further.

Overall, there is a strong trend for the importance of PG in mediating cell separation, further underlining the role of pectin in the process as well.

Supporting this possibility, differences in tissue Pro were manifested during recovery, when Col-0 sharply reduced the Pro content (half levels at R-6h vs P-24h), while p5cdh did not consume it, and even manifested a slight trend to increase the amino acid level (Figure 3A ).

Additionally, other minerals, such as Mn and Zn, also appeared to decrease in A17, while Ca, K, and S displayed an increasing trend in DZA leaves (Supplementary Table 1 ).

Moreover, NPQ had an increasing trend with DPA and FBN increasing.

Genomic contigs showing the best hits were selected based on highly significant and maximum similarity percentages (>95%) and an E -value cut-off of 1E-15.

Abscisic Acid may be Involved in the Regulation of PA Biosynthesis in Peach Fruit Proanthocyanidins accumulate most abundantly in immature fruits such as apple ( Henry-Kirk et al., 2012 ), bilberry ( Jaakola et al., 2002 ), banana ( Barnell and Barnell, 1945 ), and strawberry ( Symons et al., 2012 ; Schaart et al., 2013 ), and levels decrease toward ripening In this study, a decreasing trend was also observed for flavan-3-ols in peach fruit, consistent with a previous report in nectarine ( Ravaglia et al., 2013 ).

cordata , marginally significant effect in A. pseudoplatanus ) (Table 3 ).

Six essential genes in the mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) system, including DXS , DXR , MCT , CMK , MDS , and HDR , did not exhibit an increasing trend of expression throughout the Tur and Nca treatments ( Figure 6B ).

riparia with trehalose, with an increasing trend between VRS28 and VRS42 (2-fold, Figure 5C ).

And there was an extremely significant correlation between Soluble sugar and root endophytes.

In recent years, under the superimposed influence of multiple factors such as global warming, El Niño and La Niña phenomena, the occurrence frequency of extreme weather events has an increasing trend.

For instance, we found a highly significant association between 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one.