During ethylene-promoted leaflet abscission in Sambucus nigra a 7-fold increase in expansin activity was detected specifically in tissues undergoing cell separation, whilst only low levels of activity were seen in adjacent non-abscising tissues. An RT-PCR strategy was used to amplify expansin fragments from a cDNA library generated from mRNA extracted from ethylene-treated leaflet abscission-zo...

Fruit extracts of Sambucus nigra L. (elderberry) and Punica granatum (pomegranate) have several applications in nutraceutical, cosmetics, pharmaceutical industries thanks to their richness antioxidant polyphenols, whose composition changes with the extraction method applied. We aimed compare efficiency fermentation extraction, recently applied by industries, ultrasound-assisted extraction–UAE, ...

A new plant lectin from elderberry (Sambucus nigra L.) bark, which was shown by immunochemical techniques to bind specifically to terminal Neu5Ac(alpha 2-6)Gal/GalNAc residues of glycoconjugates, was immobilized onto Sepharose 4B (SNA-Sepharose) and its carbohydrate binding properties was determined using a series of standard compounds. Oligosaccharides, glycopeptides, or glycoproteins containi...