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Norfolk Southern Ups Bid for Conrail to $10 Billion.(Originated from The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.)
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Nov. 11--Norfolk Southern Corp. boosted its bid for Conrail Inc. on Friday, increasing the pressure on the Philadelphia-based freight railroad's board of directors to accept its offer.
The Norfolk-based railroad offered $110 a share, or $10 billion, for Conrail. That is $17 more a share than CSX Corp.'s friendly merger offer. It's also a 10 percent increase from Norfolk Southern's initial offer of $100 a share.
"This truly challenges Conrail's board to take a look at it," said Renee Johansen, a rail analyst at the Richmond brokerage Wheat First ...
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Dioecious plants. A key to the early events of sex chromosome evolution
Magazine article from: Plant Physiology
; ...condition in flowering plants, despite their recent...angiosperm species are dioecious and 7% of 13,000...angiosperms include dioecious species, suggesting...times during flowering plant evolution (Renner...molecular level in dioecious plants so far, but it is...the life cycle of the ...
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Sexual dimorphism masks life history trade-offs in the dioecious plant Silene latifolia.
Magazine article from: Ecology
; ...specific life history traits in dioecious (separate sexed) plants (see Meagher and Antonovics...resource allocation in the dioecious plant Silene latifolia (synonymous...pesticides were applied as needed. Plants were rotated on the bench...
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The Y chromosome-specific STS marker MS2 and its peripheral regions on the Y chromosome of the dioecious plant Silene latifolia.
Magazine article from: Genome
; ...was constructed from a male plant, and the BAC clone containing...expressed in both male and female plants. These 4 ORFs are candidates...ete preparee a partir d'un plant male. Le clone BAC contenant...the majority of flowering plants, including Arabidopsis thaliana...of angiosperm species are ...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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ASPARAGUS A SNAP TO GROW IN VALLEY ASPARAGUS IS A DIOECIOUS PLANT, WHICH MEANS THAT, WHEN GROWN FROM SEED, ABOUT HALF THE PLANTS WILL BE MALES AND HALF FEMALES.(L.A. Life)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
; ...plots but in trenches. The plant thrives in deep, well...asparagus is a perennial plant in the lily family. It is kin to the asparagus plants used in landscaping - sometimes...irrigation. Asparagus is a dioecious plant, which means that, when...
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Evolutionary Strata on the X Chromosomes of the Dioecious Plant Silene latifolia: Evidence From New Sex-Linked Genes
Magazine article from: Genetics
; ...and thus the age of this plant's sex chromosome system...the study of the evolution of plant sex chromosomes. The sex chromosomes of dioecious Silene species have several...in a largely hermaphroditic plant genus, and the evidence of...evolution and organization in plants, and to test for ...
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Relationships between flowering phenology, plant size, and female reproductive output in a dioecious shrub, Ilex leucoclada (Aquifoliaceae).
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Botany
; ...for reproduction in dioecious species, but selection...physiological factors such as plant size, and external...sex ratios, of the dioecious shrub Ilex leucoclada...and synchrony with plants of the opposite sex...reproduction, since plants theoretically have...successful reproduction of ...
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Karyological analysis of an interspecific hybrid between the dioecious Silene latifolia and the hermaphroditic Silene viscosa.
Magazine article from: Genome
; ...white campion) is a dioecious plant, which possesses a pair of...Silene species that are not dioecious (Desfeux et al. 1996...hermaphrodite relatives of dioecious species gained much attention...between hermaphroditic and dioecious species to discriminate which...all efforts). All of the ...
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Development of SCAR markers for sex determination in the dioecious shrub Aucuba japonica (Cornaceae).(sequence-characterized amplified regions)(Report)
Magazine article from: Genome
; Introduction In higher plants, most species show cosexual...Ricklefs 1995). However, many plant species are dioecious, i.e., male and female...individuals are found on separate plants in the same species. For...genus Salix consists mostly of dioecious species. Dioecy is found...
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A rare occurrence of seed formation on male branches of the dioecious tree, populus deltoides
Magazine article from: The American Midland Naturalist
; ...occasional bisexual individual plants. INTRODUCTION Only 4% of all plant species are dioecious, but this small percentage...across three quarters of all plant families, thus indicating that dioecious plants evolved from hermaphroditic...
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Identification of male-specific AFLP markers in dioecious Texas bluegrass.
Magazine article from: Crop Science
; ...APPROXIMATELY 90% of the flowering plants in the world are hermaphroditic...hydrophily. The remaining flowering plants have evolved physically separated...separate flowers on the same plant. Monoecy prevents intraflower...Charlesworth, 2002). The remaining plants are dioecious in that ...
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