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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Substrate specificity of purified pyrophosphatase at pH=8 | Plant Sorghum vulgare | Table - link | μmol PPi hydrolyzed/min | 106658 | Krishnan VA, Gnanam A.... |
| Estimated time range of divergence of sorghum and maize | Plants | 12-15 | Mya | 105194 | Wang X, Gowik U, Tang H... |
| Percentage of root volume occupied by cytoplasm | Barley Hordeum vulgare | 8.3 | % | 107831 | Owens T, Poole RJ. Regulation... |
| Mutation frequency with Ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) as mutagen | Barley Hordeum vulgare | 1 (Table - link) | mismatch/10^6 bp | 109872 | Parry MA et al., Mutation... |
| Percentage of mesophyll and epidermal cells in barley leaves with detectable levels of various elements in their vacuoles | Barley Hordeum vulgare | Table - link | % | 110398 | Leigh R.A. (1997). Solute... |
| Effects of various divalent metal ions as activators of PPase | Plants | Table - link | N/A | 106661 | C. Bucke, The distribution... |
| The average area of thylakoid membrane per PS II complex in the granal region | Barley Hordeum vulgare | 710 | nm^2 | 107144 | Mitchell R, Spillmann A... |
| Specificity factors and component kinetic constants fo RuBP carboxylase/oxygenase | Plants | Table - link | N/A | 102720 | Jordan DB, Ogren WL.... |
| Estimated mutation density | Plants | Arabidopsis 1/300kb: rice & barley 1/Mb: soybean 1/550kb: pea 1/669 kb | N/A | 109870 | Xin Z, Wang ML, Barkley NA... |
| Radius of PS II with its light harvesting chlorophyll proteins | Barley Hordeum vulgare | 8 | nm | 107146 | Mitchell R, Spillmann A... |
| Cell size, volume of cytoplasm and vacuoles in root cap and cortex | Plant Cucurbita pepo | Table - link | N/A | 107839 | Olszewska MJ. Autora... |
| Amount of DNA (1C-value, smallest of any plant) | Plant Genlisea aurea | 0.065 (Table - link) | pg | 110279 | Dr. Ilia J. Leitch, Prof.... |
| Percentage of storage tissue volume occupied by cytoplasm | Plant Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) | 5 | % | 107830 | Owens T, Poole RJ. Regulation... |
| Sequenced plant genomes | Plants | Site - link | N/A | 110561 | https://genomevoluti... |
| Speed of snapping - one of fastest movements in plant kingdom | Plant Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula | 100 | msec | 106630 | Forterre Y, Skotheim JM... |
| World’s most important crops in terms of total yield in 2004 | Plants | Maize 823: rice 725: wheat 555: soybean 186: barley 142: sorghum 59 | Mt | 109833 | Long SP, Zhu XG, Naidu SL... |
| Speed of communicating signal within plant | Plants | fastest ~1m/sec: slowest (some hormones) ~1cm/hour: most (thorough vascular system) 1-8mm/sec | N/A | 113538 | Trewavas A. The foundations... |
| Total terrestrial plant biomass | Biosphere | 600-800 | Pg Carbon | 100820 | Aquatic photosynthesis... |
| Number of plant species | Plants | ~350,000 (representing an estimated 80–90% of the global total) | species | 113395 | Vellend M et al., Plant... |
| PPi concentration in plant cells | Plants | ~0.3 | mM | 108183 | Leustek T, Saito K. Sulfate... |