Glucosinolate Profiling of Calepina irregularis

Expression Profiling of Glucosinolate Biosynthetic Genes in Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata Inbred Lines Reveals Their Association with Glucosinolate Content.

Glucosinolates are the biochemical compounds that provide defense to plants against pathogens and herbivores. In this study, the relative expression level of 48 glucosinolate biosynthesis genes was explored in four morphologically-different cabbage inbred lines by qPCR analysis. The content of aliphatic and indolic glucosinolate molecules present in those cabbage lines was also estimated by HPL...

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Comments on recent experiments with frozen and dried tissue as evidence for the virus etiology of tumors.

One of the tasks confronting investigators in any field is an occasional re-evaluation of the ex perimental work on which the basic theories in that field depend. A special impetus is given to such an endeavor when new data are collected and cited as conclusive evidence for or against any of these theories. The concept that the etiology of tumors involves the presence of viruses is one of the o...

Glucosinolate profiling of seeds and sprouts of B. oleracea varieties used for food

Consumption of plants of the species Brassica oleracea is related to a decreased incidence of certain cancer forms in humans, and this has been linked to the presence of glucosinolates in those vegetables. After ripe seeds, sprouts of some brassicaceous plants contain the highest concentration of these compounds and are therefore a good source of glucosinolates for chemoprotection. In the prese...

Sulforaphane Glucosinolate Monograph

Introduction Intake of broccoli sprouts, a rich source of the glucosinolate glucoraphanin, has been associated with decreased incidence, multiplicity, and tumor growth in animal cancer models.1-3 In 1992, Paul Talalay, MD, and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University identified the isothiocyanate, sulforaphane, a biologically active metabolite of glucoraphanin, as the compound in broccoli respons...