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The Correspondence of Julius Haast and Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1861-1886
The Correspondence of Julius Haast and Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1861-1886 Sascha Nolden, Simon Nathan & Esme Mildenhall Geoscience Society of New Zealand miscellaneous publication 133H November 2013 Published by the Geoscience Society of New Zealand Inc, 2013 Information on the Society and its publications is given at www.gsnz.org.nz © Copyright Simon Nathan & Sascha Nolden, 2013 Geoscience Society of New Zealand miscellaneous publication 133H ISBN 978-1-877480-29-4 ISSN 2230-4495 (Online) ISSN 2230-4487 (Print) We gratefully acknowledge financial assistance from the Brian Mason Scientific and Technical Trust which has provided financial support for this project. This document is available as a PDF file that can be downloaded from the Geoscience Society website at: http://www.gsnz.org.nz/information/misc-series-i-49.html Bibliographic Reference Nolden, S.; Nathan, S.; Mildenhall, E. 2013: The Correspondence of Julius Haast and Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1861-1886. Geoscience Society of New Zealand miscellaneous publication 133H. 219 pages. The Correspondence of Julius Haast and Joseph Dalton Hooker, 1861-1886 CONTENTS Introduction 3 The Sumner Cave controversy Sources of the Haast-Hooker correspondence Transcription and presentation of the letters Acknowledgements References Calendar of Letters 8 Transcriptions of the Haast-Hooker letters 12 Appendix 1: Undated letter (fragment), ca 1867 208 Appendix 2: Obituary for Sir Julius von Haast 209 Appendix 3: Biographical register of names mentioned in the correspondence 213 Figures Figure 1: Photographs -
Changing Attitudes and Perceptions of Artists Towards the New Zealand
University ofCanterbury Dept. of Geography HA� LIBRARY CH&ISTCHUIICH, � University of Canterbury CHANGING ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS OF ARTISTS TOW ARDS THE NEW ZEALAND MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE by Katrina Jane Askew A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts m Geography Christchurch, New Zealand February 1995 "I go to the mountains, to get High" Anonymous Abstract The purpose of this study is to explore the changing attitudes and perceptions of artists and settlers towards the New Zealand mountain landscape from the period of colonisation to 1950. When European colonists first anived in New Zealand, they brought with them old world values that shaped their attitudes to nature and thus the mountains of this country. Tracing the development of mountain topophilia in landscape painting, highlighted that the perceptions settlers adopted on arrival differed greatly from those of their homeland. In effect, the love of European mountain scenery was not transposed onto their new environment. It was not until the 1880s that a more sympathetic outlook towards mountains developed. This led to the greater depiction of mountains and their eventual adoption into New Zealanders identification with the land. An analysis of paintings housed in the Art Galleries of the South Island provided evidence that this eventually led to the development of a collective consciousness as to the ideal mountain landscape. ll Acknowledgements The production of this thesis would not have been possible but for the assistance of a great number of people. The first person I must thank is Dr. Peter Perry who supervised this research. -
Symphytum Officinale) Hairy Roots by Rnai Silencing of Homospermidine Synthase
Published online: 2019-08-26 Original Papers Reduction of Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid Levels in Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) Hairy Roots by RNAi Silencing of Homospermidine Synthase Authors Lars H. Kruse 1, 3, Thomas Stegemann1, Julia Jensen-Kroll 1, Annika Engelhardt 1, Anne-Maria Wesseling 1, Annemarie Lippert 2, Jutta Ludwig-Müller 2,DietrichOber1 Affiliations ABSTRACT 1 Botanisches Institut, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany Comfrey is a medicinal plant, extracts of which are tradition- 2 Institut für Botanik, Technische Universität Dresden, ally used for the treatment of painful inflammatory muscle Dresden, Germany and joint problems, because the plant contains allantoin and 3 Plant Biology Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, rosmarinic acid. However, its medicinal use is limited because Cornell University, USA of its toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloid (PA) content. PAs encompass more than 400 different compounds that have been identified Key words from various plant lineages. To date, only the first pathway- Symphytum officinale, alkaloid extraction, transgenic tissue specific enzyme, homospermidine synthase (HSS), has been culture, transcript quantification, Boraginaceae characterized. HSS catalyzes the formation of homospermi- dine, which is exclusively incorporated into PAs. HSS has been received May 6, 2019 recruited several times independently in various plant line- revised August 5, 2019 ages during evolution by duplication of the gene encoding de- accepted August 15, 2019 oxyhypusine synthase (DHS), an enzyme of primary metabo- Bibliography lism. Here, we describe the establishment of RNAi knockdown DOI https://doi.org/10.1055/a-0998-5125 hairy root mutants of HSS in Symphytum officinale. A knock- – Published online August 26, 2019 | Planta Med 2019; 85: down of HSS by 60 80% resulted in a significant reduction of 1177–1186 © Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York | homospermidine by ~ 86% and of the major PA components ‑ ‑ ISSN 0032‑0943 7 acetylintermedine N-oxide and 3 acetylmyoscorpine N-ox- ide by approximately 60%. -
The Establishment of the Canterbury Society of Arts
New Zealand Journal of History, 44, 2 (2010) The Establishment of the Canterbury Society of Arts FORMING THE TASTE, JUDGEMENT AND IDENTITY OF A PROVINCE, 1850–1880 HISTORIES OF NEW ZEALAND ART have commonly portrayed art societies as conservative institutions, predominantly concerned with educating public taste and developing civic art collections that pandered to popular academic British painting. In his discussion of Canterbury’s cultural development, for example, Jonathan Mane-Wheoki commented that the founding of the Canterbury Society of Arts (CSA) in 1880 formalized the enduring presence of the English art establishment in the province.1 Similarly, Michael Dunn has observed that the model for the establishment of New Zealand art societies in the late nineteenth century was the Royal Academy, London, even though ‘they were never able to attain the same prestige or social significance as the Royal Academy had in its heyday’.2 As organizations that appeared to perpetuate the Academy’s example, art societies have served as a convenient, reactionary target for those historians who have contrasted art societies’ long-standing conservatism with the struggle to establish an emerging national identity in the twentieth century. Gordon Brown, for example, maintained that the development of painting within New Zealand during the 1920s and 1930s was restrained by the societies’ influence, ‘as they increasingly failed to comprehend the changing values entering the arts’.3 The establishment of the CSA in St Michael’s schoolroom in Christchurch on 30 June 1880, though, was more than a simple desire by an ambitious colonial township to imitate the cultural and educational institutions of Great Britain and Europe. -
Julius Haast Towards a New Appreciation of His Life And
JULIUS HAAST TOWARDS A NEW APPRECIATION OF HIS LIFE AND WORK __________________________________ A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in History in the University of Canterbury by Mark Edward Caudel University of Canterbury 2007 _______ Contents Acknowledgements ............................................................................................... i List of Plates and Figures ...................................................................................... ii Abstract................................................................................................................. iii Chapter 1: Introduction ........................................................................................ 1 Chapter 2: Who Was Julius Haast? ...................................................................... 10 Chapter 3: Julius Haast in New Zealand: An Explanation.................................... 26 Chapter 4: Julius Haast and the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury .................. 44 Chapter 5: Julius Haast’s Museum ....................................................................... 57 Chapter 6: The Significance of Julius Haast ......................................................... 77 Chapter 7: Conclusion.......................................................................................... 86 Bibliography ......................................................................................................... 89 Appendices .......................................................................................................... -
Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids: Biosynthesis, Biological Activities and Occurrence in Crop Plants
molecules Review Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids: Biosynthesis, Biological Activities and Occurrence in Crop Plants Sebastian Schramm, Nikolai Köhler and Wilfried Rozhon * Biotechnology of Horticultural Crops, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Liesel-Beckmann-Straße 1, 85354 Freising, Germany; [email protected] (S.S.); [email protected] (N.K.) * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +49-8161-71-2023 Academic Editor: John C. D’Auria Received: 20 December 2018; Accepted: 29 January 2019; Published: 30 January 2019 Abstract: Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are heterocyclic secondary metabolites with a typical pyrrolizidine motif predominantly produced by plants as defense chemicals against herbivores. They display a wide structural diversity and occur in a vast number of species with novel structures and occurrences continuously being discovered. These alkaloids exhibit strong hepatotoxic, genotoxic, cytotoxic, tumorigenic, and neurotoxic activities, and thereby pose a serious threat to the health of humans since they are known contaminants of foods including grain, milk, honey, and eggs, as well as plant derived pharmaceuticals and food supplements. Livestock and fodder can be affected due to PA-containing plants on pastures and fields. Despite their importance as toxic contaminants of agricultural products, there is limited knowledge about their biosynthesis. While the intermediates were well defined by feeding experiments, only one enzyme involved in PA biosynthesis has been characterized so far, the homospermidine synthase catalyzing the first committed step in PA biosynthesis. This review gives an overview about structural diversity of PAs, biosynthetic pathways of necine base, and necic acid formation and how PA accumulation is regulated. Furthermore, we discuss their role in plant ecology and their modes of toxicity towards humans and animals. -
REVIEW ARTICLES Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids
Review articles Pyrrolizidine alkaloids – chemistry, biosynthesis, pathway, toxicity, safety and perspectives of medicinal usage Mariola DREGER, MARZENA Stanisławska, ANNA Krajewska-Patan, SEBASTIAN Mielcarek, Przemysław Łukasz Mikołajczak, WALDEMAR Buchwald The Branch of Medicinal Plants Institute of Natural Fibres and Medicinal Plants Libelta 27 61-707 Poznań, Poland *corresponding author: [email protected] S u m m a r y Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) are the class of secondary metabolites that evolved as a powerful tool in the plant defensive interactions against herbivores. The occurrence of PAs in the plant world is scattered in several unrelated botanic families with special abun- dance in Asteraceae, Boraginaceae and Fabaceae. Homospermidine synthase (HSS) was recognized as a key enzyme that catalyzes homospermidine formation from polyamines. The studies of HSS kinetic and gene sequence revealed that it is of polyphyletic origin and raised as a result of deoxyhypusine synthase (DHS) gene duplication. The ability of PAs production occurred independently at least four times in course of plant evolution. The PAs biosynthesis is tightly correlated with growth phase and biomass production. It is sup- posed that PAs biosynthesis is individually regulated in different lineages of plants. The PAs with a 1,2 unsaturated necine skeleton show toxic activity (hepatoxicity, carcinogenicity, genotoxicity, teratogenocity and cytotoxicity). It is though that pyrrolic esters formation during the detoxication process in the liver is the main mechanism of PAs toxicity. The pyr- rolic esters are highly reactive and tend to bind rapidly with nucleophilic macromolecules including DNA and DNA-protein inducing hepatotoxicity or tumorigenecity. The problem of PAs toxicity cause the restrictions in the production and sale of herbal products. -
University of Florida Thesis Or Dissertation Formatting Template
METABOLOMIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE INTESTINAL BACTERIAL OXALOBIOME By CASEY A. CHAMBERLAIN A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 2019 © 2019 Casey A. Chamberlain To my wife, Michelle ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Obtaining a PhD may only bestow the title of “Doctor” upon one individual, but the journey to such an achievement is often aided by, and impossible without, the loving support of family, friends, and others along the way. I am thankful for the Lord for His providence and love and for blessing me with the unique interests, talents, and gifts that gave me the opportunity to fulfill this achievement. I am eternally grateful for my wife, Michelle, for providing me with love, support, comfort, and guidance, which propagates confidence, happiness, and fulfillment into all areas of my life. Her guiding and strengthening example has molded me into the man I am today. I am blessed to have my daughter, Maci, who reminds me daily of the purpose of this life and the love the Lord feels for each of His children. I am fortunate to have received love and support from family, both immediate and extended, which helps foster a sense of wholeness in my life. I am uplifted and reinforced by the friends I have made during this season of life, both inside and outside the lab, particularly those whom I have come to know closely on a personal level. I respect, honor, and am indebted to Tim Garrett for providing me the opportunity for this journey. -
Functional Roles of Each of the 400 Putative Gene Products Used for Inferring Bradyrhizobium Phylogeny
Supplementary Table S3: Functional roles of each of the 400 putative gene products used for inferring Bradyrhizobium phylogeny. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) Amino Gene Gene KEGG Acid number identifiera Orthology KEGG Annotation Functional class Definition model 1 BJ6T_00940 Uncharacterised Unclassified JTT NitT/TauT family transport system Mineral and organic ion transport 2 BJ6T_00960 K02050 permease protein system ABC.SN.P LG NitT/TauT family transport system ATP- Mineral and organic ion transport 3 BJ6T_00970 K02049 binding protein system ABC.SN.A JTT 4 BJ6T_01730 K05524 ferredoxin Energy metabolism fdxA Dayhoff 5 BJ6T_01770 K02902 large subunit ribosomal protein L28 Translation RP-L28 DCMut 6 BJ6T_01900 Uncharacterised Unclassified JTT Metabolism of cofactors and 7 BJ6T_01930 K09882 cobaltochelatase CobS vitamins cobS LG 8 BJ6T_01980 Uncharacterised Unclassified DCMut 9 BJ6T_02010 K01735 3-dehydroquinate synthase Amino acid metabolism aroB JTT Chromosome and associated 10 BJ6T_02040 K04763 integrase/recombinase XerD proteins xerD JTT DNA repair and recombination 11 BJ6T_02180 K03574 8-oxo-dGTP diphosphatase proteins mutT LG 12 BJ6T_02220 K11206 deaminated glutathione amidase Unclassified metabolism NIT1 CpREV 13 BJ6T_02230 Uncharacterised Unclassified JTT 14 BJ6T_02290 K02835 peptide chain release factor 1 Translation factors prfA JTT 15 BJ6T_02440 K00023 acetoacetyl-CoA reductase Carbohydrate metabolism phbB JTT 16 BJ6T_02460 Uncharacterised Unclassified JTT 17 BJ6T_02900 K01087 trehalose 6-phosphate phosphatase -
Rich Man, Poor Man, Environmentalist, Thief
Rich man, poor man, environmentalist, thief Biographies of Canterbury personalities written for the Millennium and for the 150th anniversary of the Canterbury Settlement Richard L N Greenaway Cover illustration: RB Owen at front of R T Stewart’s Avon River sweeper, late 1920s. First published in 2000 by Christchurch City Libraries, PO Box 1466, Christchurch, New Zealand Website: library.christchurch.org.nz All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from Christchurch City Libraries. ISBN 0 908868 22 7 Designed by Jenny Drummond, Christchurch City Libraries Printed by The Caxton Press, Christchurch For Daisy, Jan and Richard jr Contents Maria Thomson 7 George Vennell and other Avon personalities 11 Frederick Richardson Fuller 17 James Speight 23 Augustus Florance 29 Allan Hopkins 35 Sali Mahomet 41 Richard Bedward Owen 45 Preface Unsung heroines was Canterbury Public Library’s (now Genealogical friends, Rona Hayles and Margaret Reid, found Christchurch City Libraries) contribution to Women’s overseas information at the Family History Centre of the Suffrage Year in 1994. This year, for the Millennium and 150th Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Professional anniversary of the founding of the Canterbury Settlement, researchers Valerie Marshall in Christchurch and Jane we have produced Rich man, poor man, environmentalist, thief. Smallfield in Dunedin showed themselves skilled in the use In both works I have endeavoured to highlight the lives of of the archive holdings of Land Information New Zealand. -
Supplementary Material Toxicological Impacts and Likely Protein Targets Of
Supplementary Material Toxicological impacts and likely protein targets of bisphenol A in Paramecium caudatum Marcus V. X. Senra† & Ana Lúcia Fonseca Instituto de Recursos Naturais, Universidade Federal de Itajubá, 37500-903, Itajubá, Minas Gerais – Brazil †To whom correspondence should be addressed – [email protected]; Orcid - 0000-0002-3866- 8837 Table S1. Annotation data on the P. caudatum 3D modelled proteins and their binding energies to BPA. BINDING ID DESCRIPTION CHROMOSOME NT_START NT_END ENERGIES (kcal/mol) PCAU.43c3d.1.P00010012 Tryptophan synthase beta subunit-like PLP-dependent enzyme scaffold_0001 23197 24853 -7.4 PCAU.43c3d.1.P00010015 Ribosomal protein L32e scaffold_0001 26373 26859 -6.2 PCAU.43c3d.1.P00010044 Catalase, mono-functional, haem-containing scaffold_0001 71821 73367 -6.5 PCAU.43c3d.1.P00010050 Dihydroorotate dehydrogenase, class 1/ 2 scaffold_0001 76614 79650 -6.6 PCAU.43c3d.1.P00010054 Serine/threonine/dual specificity protein kinase, catalytic domain scaffold_0001 83399 84653 -6.7 PCAU.43c3d.1.P00010070 Peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase, FKBP-type scaffold_0001 104909 105387 -5.9 PCAU.43c3d.1.P00010103 V-ATPase proteolipid subunit C-like domain scaffold_0001 168736 169346 -5.6 PCAU.43c3d.1.P00010112 DNA-directed RNA polymerase, RBP11-like dimerisation domain scaffold_0001 180310 181372 -6.0 PCAU.43c3d.1.P00010165 Vacuolar (H+)-ATPase G subunit scaffold_0001 252653 253112 -5.6 PCAU.43c3d.1.P00010176 Coproporphyrinogen III oxidase, aerobic scaffold_0001 262051 263168 -6.7 PCAU.43c3d.1.P00010205 Metalloenzyme, -
'Thinking from a Place Called London': the Metropolis and Colonial
‘Thinking from a place called London’: The Metropolis and Colonial Culture, 1837-1907 FELICITY BARNES In April 1907, at the Colonial Conference in London, the premiers of the white self-governing colonies met with members of the imperial government to reconcile two apparently conflicting objectives: to gain greater acknowledgement of their de facto political autonomy, and commitment to strengthening imperial unity.1 The outcomes of this conference tend to be cast in constitutional and political terms, but this process also renegotiated the cultural boundaries of empire. The white settler colonies sought to clarify their position within the empire, by, on the one hand, asserting equal status with Britain, and, on the other, emphasizing the distinction between themselves and the dependent colonies.2 In doing so they invoked and reinforced a hierarchical version of empire. This hierarchy, underpinned by ideas of separation and similarity, would be expressed vividly in the conference’s outcomes, first in the rejection of the term ‘colonial’ as a name for future conferences. These were redesignated, inaccurately, as ‘imperial’, not ‘colonial’, elevating their status as it narrowed their participation.3 ‘Imperial’ might be metropolitan, but ‘colonial’ was always peripheral. Whilst the first Colonial Conference, held in 1887, had included Crown colonies along with the self-governing kinds,4 20 years later the former were no longer invited, and India, or, more precisely, the India Office and its officials, was only a marginal presence.5 As wider participation declined, imperial government involvement increased. From 1907 the conference was to be chaired by the British prime minister. This pattern was repeated in changes to the Colonial Office itself.