BACKGROUND Oxidative stress has been shown to play a principal role in the pathogenesis of stress-induced gastric injury. Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) contains many antioxidants such as flavanoids, carotenoids and ascorbic acid. AIMS In this study, the histopathological and biochemical results of nutrition with a parsley-rich diet in terms of eliminating stress-induced oxidative gastric inj...

Suspension-cultured cells of parsley (Petroselinum crispum L.) were used to study the regulation of extracellular H2O2. After resuspension, the washed cells regulated the H2O2 concentration spontaneously to a constant level that was greatly increased when the cultures were pretreated for 1 d with salicylic acid (SA). The H2O2 level was further increased on addition of a fungal elicitor preparat...

Because of its key role in secondary phenylpropanoid metabolism, Phe ammonia-lyase is one of the most extensively studied plant enzymes. To provide a basis for detailed structure-function studies, the enzyme from parsley (Petroselinum crispum) was crystallized, and the structure was elucidated at 1.7-A resolution. It contains the unusual electrophilic 4-methylidene-imidazole-5-one group, which ...

Treatment of cultured parsley (Petroselinum crispum L.) cells with a structurally defined peptide elicitor (Pep25) of fungal origin has previously been shown to cause rapid and large changes in the levels of various desaturated fatty acids. We isolated two distinct parsley cDNAs sharing high sequence similarity with microsomal w-6 fatty acid desaturases (FADs). One of them was functionally iden...

The species Petroselinum crispum (Parsley) and Foeniculum vulgare (Fennel) are aromatic herbs belonging to the Apiaceae Lamiaceae family respectively. leaves of both plants were consecutively extracted based on separation using ethanol subjected phytochemical testing that revealed presence biologically active compounds such as flavonoids, tannins, saponins, steroids, terpenoids, alkaloids glyco...

Disease resistance of plants involves two distinct forms of chemical communication with the pathogen: recognition and defense. Both are essential components of a highly complex, multifaceted defense response, which begins with non-self recognition through the perception of pathogen-derived signal molecules and results in the production, inter alia, of antibiotically active compounds (phytoalexi...

Furanocoumarins, Phytoalexins, O-Methyltransferases, Fungal Elicitor, Cell Suspension Cultures Cultured parsley cells (Petroselinum crispum) treated with an elicitor from the soybean patho­ gen, Phytophthora megasperma f. sp. glycinea, were used as source for the separation, extensive purification and characterization of S-adenosyl-L-methionine: xanthotoxol and S-adenosyl-Lmethionine: bergaptol...