Synthesis of Delafossite-Type AgMnO by the Precipitation Method at Room Temperature.

A delafossite-type Ag-Mn oxide was successfully synthesized using the precipitation method at room temperature. The delafossite is Ag-deficient and has a chemical composition of AgMnO. Thermogravimetry of the AgMnO delafossite revealed that on heating to 900 °C, it decomposed to Ag and MnO in air and to Ag and MnO under N.

Enhancement of meristem formation by bouquet-1, a mis-sense allele of the vernalization independence 3 gene encoding a WD40 repeat protein in Arabidopsis thaliana.

In higher plants, the shoot apical meristem (SAM) is the ultimate source supplying cells that constitute the aboveground tissues and organs. The cells supplied from the SAM begin to proliferate rapidly and then concomitantly start to differentiate. We identified a novel mutant, named bouquet-1 (boq-1), exhibiting highly pleiotropic shoot growth phenotypes.