Kidney stones are one of the oldest known and common diseases in the urinary tract system. Various human studies have suggested that diets with a higher intake of vegetables and fruits play a role in the prevention of kidney stones. In this review, we have provided an overview of these dietary plants, their main chemical constituents, and their possible mechanisms of action. Camellia sinensis (...

The activity of caffeoyl-coenzyme A (CoA) 3-O-methyltransferase, an enzyme widely distributed in plants and involved in cell wall reinforcement in a disease resistance response, appears to be subject to a complex type of regulation in vivo. In cultured parsley (Petroselinum crispum) cells treated with an elicitor from Phytophthora megasperma f.sp. glycinea, the enzyme activity is rapidly induce...

The UV light-induced synthesis of UV-protective flavonoids diverts substantial amounts of substrates from primary metabolism into secondary product formation and thus causes major perturbations of the cellular homeostasis. Results from this study show that the mRNAs encoding representative enzymes from various supply pathways are coinduced in UV-irradiated parsley cells (Petroselinum crispum) w...

We previously identified three Avr9/Cf-9 Rapidly Elicited (ACRE) genes essential for Cf-9- and Cf-4-dependent hypersensitive response (HR) production in Nicotiana benthamiana. Two of them encode putative E3 ubiquitin ligase components. This led us to investigate other ACRE genes associated with the ubiquitination pathway. ACRE74 encodes a U-box E3 ligase homolog, highly related to parsley (Petr...

Actively dividing callus cells of higher plants (Petroselinum crispum, Daucus carota, Acer pseudoplatanus) were used to detect the primary gene product of rDNA in vivo. Parsley and carrot cells were labelled with [32P]orthophosphate. Under non-denaturing conditions, in both cases only one high molecular weight rRNA precursor was present on polyacrylamide gels. Its molecular weight did not excee...

In plants, light perception by photoreceptors leads to differential expression of an enormous number of genes. An important step for differential gene expression is the regulation of transcription factor activities. To understand these processes in light signal transduction we analyzed the three well-known members of the common plant regulatory factor (CPRF) family from parsley (Petroselinum cr...

We have cloned and sequenced a cDNA for a histone H2A from parsley (Petroselinum crispum). A library of parsley cDNA in lambda gtll was probed with a cloned fragment originally generated by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The DNA amplified by PCR was a cDNA preparation made using the downstream PCR oligo primer with a total RNA preparation from parsley cell culture. The PCR upstream primer (a ...

The impact of extraction methodology and polarity of extraction solvents on the assay of phenolic compounds was investigated using parsley (Petroselinum crispum) flakes as a model substrate. This systematic study was undertaken to address substantial variations in the extraction procedures, solvents and conditions as described in the recent literature. Five different extraction procedures [shak...

A combination of bioinformatic tools, high-throughput gene expression profiles, and the use of synthetic promoters is a powerful approach to discover and evaluate novel cis-sequences in response to specific stimuli. With Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) microarray data annotated to the PathoPlant database, 732 different queries with a focus on fungal and oomycete pathogens were performed, lea...

Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) is the first key enzyme of the phenypropanoid pathway. A full-length cDNA of PAL gene was isolated from Juglans regia for the first time, and designated as JrPAL. The full-length cDNA of the JrPAL gene contained a 1935bp open reading frame encoding a 645-amino-acid protein with a calculated molecular weight of about 70.4 kD and isoelectric point (pI) of 6.7. Th...