Szafran (Croccus sativus L.) to wyjątkowa roślina, ceniona na całym świecie. Uznawana za jedną z najdroższych i najszlachetniejszych przypraw. Właściwości szafranu znali już starożytni, którzy nie tylko dodawali szafran do dań napitków, barwili nim tkaniny, ale także stosowali go w celach prozdrowotnych. Roślina ta jest doskonałym środ-kiem wspomagającym trawienie, poprawiającym nastrój apetyt....

From ancient times, saffron, the flower of the plant Crocus sativus L., is widely used as a traditional medicine to promote health and fight disease. Crocus sativus is cultivated in different parts of the world such as Greece, Spain and, mainly, Iran. In view of its wide range of medicinal uses, saffron has submitted to extensive phytochemical and biochemical studies and a variety of biological...

As an aromatic and colorful plant of substantive taste, saffron (Crocus sativus L.) owes such properties of matter to growing class of the secondary metabolites derived from the carotenoids, apocarotenoids. Regarding the critical role of microRNAs in secondary metabolic synthesis and the limited number of identified miRNAs in C. sativus, on the other hand, one may see the point how the characte...

Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) is commonly known as world's most expensive spice with rich source of apocarotenoids and possesses magnificent medicinal properties. To understand the molecular basis of apocarotenoid biosynthesis/accumulation, we performed transcriptome sequencing from five different tissues/organs of C. sativus using Illumina platform. After comprehensive optimization of de novo tr...