Eruca sativa is an important crop as medicinally as well as for salad purpose. It belongs to family Bracicaceae and being used as genetic resource to improve the other species of Brassica. The seedlings developed from treated seeds with sodium azide at concentration ranged (1x 10 to 5x10 M) showed wide -3 -3 variation in plant growth (plant height, leaf area, fresh and dry weight) upto 60 days ...

Hypergravity is able to stimulate at a cellular level both the lignin formation and the peroxidase enzyme action in plants. Centrifuges have proven to be one of the most important tools for researchers for simulating such conditions. This paper presents a new design for a centrifuge simulating hypergravity used for plant experiments. It represents a more robust and completely redesigned equipme...

Wild crucifers namely Arabidopsis thaliana, Brassica fruticulosa, B. rugosa, B. spinescens, B. tournefortii, Camelina sativa, Capsella bursa-pastoris, Crambe abysinnica, Cronopus didymus, Diplotaxis assurgens, D. gomez-campoi, D. muralis, D. siettiana, D. tenuisiliqua, Enatharocarpus lyratus, Lepidium sativum and Sinapis alba along with five cultivated Brassica species including B. rapa (BSH-1)...

Variation in somatic and gametic chromosome numbers in Ribes nipuw (Vaarama 1949) and Eruca sativa (Rajan et al., 1950) has been attributed to the formation of accessory spindle and subsequent "elimination of clzrolnosoines e n bloc". In sugarcane, Parthasarathy (1951)~ after exa~nining the slides of megasporogenesis in Co. 421 prepared by Subrainaniam (1946), concluded that the mechanism of el...

Harlequin bug, Murgantia histrionica (Hahn) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), is a piercing-sucking pest of cole crops, causing cosmetic damage in low populations, while heavy pest pressure can kill plants or entire fields. Field studies were conducted to evaluate a trap crop for control of harlequin bug in collard. Field-cage choice tests found that potential trap crop plant species, mustard (Brassic...

The growth and viability of three Lactobacillus strains, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus plantarum and Lactobacillus rhamnosus, after their passage through simulated gastric and pancreatic juices were studied as a function of their presence in the growth medium of rocket salad (Eruca sativa). The presence of E. sativa affected some of the biological properties of the strains. For examp...