Article
Flavonoid-specific staining of Arabidopsis thaliana.
BioTechniques - 1 Dec 1992
Sheahan J J, Rechnitz G A
Abstract excerpt
Crop yields may be threatened by increases in UV-B radiation resulting from depletion of the ozone layer. In higher plants, the presence of flavonols provides a protective mechanism, and we report a novel staining procedure for the visualization of such protectants in plant tissue. It is shown that the proposed technique provides sensitive and specific fluorescence of flavonoids in chlorophyll-bleached tissue of...
Topics
- Arabidopsis
- Flavonoids
- Flavonols
- Fluorescence
- Mutation
- Radiation Tolerance
- Staining and Labeling
- Ultraviolet Rays