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Aims: It is unknown whether there is an interaction between aspirin and angiotensin receptor blockers on outcomes in patients with heart failure (HF). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Pea plants (Pisum sativum 1,. cv. Melbourne Market), each with a single developing pod, were pulse-fed [4- 14C]aspartate through the cut stem at stages from 11 to 32 d after full blossom. The distribution of radioactivity in soluble metabolites of the hull, seedcoats, embryo sac liquid and embryo was determined by 2-dimensional paper chromatography and radioautography after feeding intervals of 6 h, 24 h or 48 h. At the earliest stage, radioactivity was recovered mainly in sucrose, serine, homoserine and threonine in the hull. At the 15-16 d stage, threonine became the major derived amino compound secreted into the embryo sac, and sucrose became the predominant derivative recovered from both hull and seed tissues. Stem-fed aspartate can therefore be transferred to stem phloem, and sucrose synthesized from aspartate in stems and leaves ran be transferred to phloem in both organs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses previous studies regarding the effect of carbon dioxide on plant processes. Stomatal opening and closing; Stomatal density; Inhibition of respiration; Root morphogenesis; Flowering; Yield and limiting factors; Effect on seed parameters.

It is widely held that the albumins of pea seeds are mainly enzyme proteins. In the present study of Pisum sativum cv. Greenfeast, certain major polypeptides confined to the albumin fraction from the cotyledons were shown to be degraded in vivo following germination, thus functioning as a reserve of amino nitrogen and carbon skeletons. A general definition of seed storage proteins is proposed, to encompass any protein present in major quantity in the seed which is degraded following imbibition, and for which no other function may be demonstrated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]