Herbarium specimens deposited in publicly accessible collections are the basis for all scientific names because only permanent specimens can be re-studied by independent researchers, the very essence of science. Re-investigations may be done with morphological, chemical, genomic, computer-tomographic, or other methods. Based on new herbarium material, I here provide a name for the Xishuangbanna...

The study was aimed to evaluate the carminative and antacid properties of Cucumis sativus fruit pulp aqueous extract under simulated conditions. Fresh fruit pulp of Cucumis sativus was homogenized and dried under shade and thus mass obtained was powdered, weighed and subjected for the evaluation of carminative and antacid profile of the drug. Carminative & antacid properties of Cucumis sativa w...

BACKGROUND The use of traditional foods can enrich our diet, perpetuating important elements of local knowledge and cultural inheritance. Raw, soaked and cooked samples of two Fabaceae species (Cicer arietinum L. and Lathyrus sativus L.) were characterized regarding nutritional and bioactive properties. RESULTS L. sativus gave the highest carbohydrate, protein, ash, saturated fatty acid and p...

Lathyrus sativus (grass pea) is a temperate grain legume crop with a great potential for expansion in dry areas or zones that are becoming more drought-prone. It is also recognized as a potential source of resistance to several important diseases in legumes, such as ascochyta blight. Nevertheless, the lack of detailed genomic and/or transcriptomic information hampers further exploitation of gra...

Raphanus sativus, Brassicaceae, Sinapic Acid Esters, Phenylpropanoids, High Performance Liquid Chromatography Five sinapic acid esters were isolated from cotyledons of Raphanus sativus and have been iden­ tified with the aid of electron impact (El)-, field desorption (FD)-mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy: 6,3'-disinapoylsucrose, sinapoylcholine (sinapine), 6 -sinapoylglucoraphenine, 1 -si...

A Commentary on Sequencing, de novo assembly and comparative analysis of Raphanus sativus transcriptome Obtaining sequence information for a plant species of interest greatly facilitates functional genomic research. However, many plant species have not been sequenced due to the complexities of their genomes and the high cost of sequencing. Therefore, the transcriptomes of several plants were se...

From the leaves of Cucumis sativus the following C-glycosides were isolated and identified: isovitexin 2"-O-glucoside, isovitexin, isoorientin, 4'-X-O-diglucosides of isovitexin and swertiajaponin. In the flowers of the above species chromatographically (HPLC, TLC) the presence of kaempferol 3-O-rhamnoside and 3-O-glycosides of kaempferol, quercetin, isoramnetin was revealed. The flavonoids com...

The restriction of PCR-amplified internal transcribed spacers (ITS) ofribosomal DNA was used to confirm the genetic variation among 22 isolates of Cochliobolus sativus differing in their xylanase production. Results show a high level of diversity of ITS-RFLP markers among the isolates. The molecular parameter used showed that C. sativus isolates reside in three phylogenetic groups. There was ob...

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Raphanus sativus seeds (Brassicaceae) known as Raphani Semen have long been used as anti-cancer and/or anti-inflammatory agents in Korean traditional medicine. This study was designed to isolate the bioactive constituents from the seed extracts of Raphanus sativus and evaluate their anti-inflammatory and antitumor activities. MATERIAL AND METHODS Bioassay-guided...

BACKGROUND Signal transduction through the hydrolysis of glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI) leading to the release of the water-soluble inositol phosphoglycan (IPG) molecules has been demonstrated to be important for mediating some of the actions of insulin and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I). MATERIALS AND METHODS In the present study, GPI from grass pea (Lathyrus sativus) seeds has be...