The micropylar endosperm is a major regulator of seed germination in endospermic species, to which the close Brassicaceae relatives Arabidopsis thaliana and Lepidium sativum (cress) belong. Cress seeds are about 20 times larger than the seeds of Arabidopsis. This advantage was used to construct a tissue-specific subtractive cDNA library of transcripts that are up-regulated late in the germinati...

Salinity is considered one of the major limiting factors for plant growth and agricultural productivity. We are using salt cress (Thellungiella halophila) to identify biochemical mechanisms that enable plants to grow in saline conditions. Under salt stress, the major site of Na+ accumulation occurred in old leaves, followed by young leaves and taproots, with the least accumulation occurring in ...

Urban growth and land use change models are an important and innovative tool that support planning and development of sustainable urban areas. The data requirements for parameterization, calibration and validation of urban models are intense due to the complexity of the models and their objectives. In this study several urban land use change models are evaluated and their demands on spatial dat...

Some Saudi herbs and spices were analyzed. The results indicated that mustard, black cumin, and cress seeds contain high amount of fat 38.45%, 31.95% and 23.19%, respectively, as compared to clove (16.63%), black pepper (5.34%) and fenugreek (4.51%) seeds. Cress, mustard, black cumin and black pepper contain higher protein contents ranging from 26.61 to 25.45%, as compared to fenugreek (12.91%)...

This article deals with the history, names and uses of the garden cress in Indian Medicine.

This study aims to determine the nutrients of some green plants and their anti-methanogenic potentials with in vitro gas production techniques. For this purpose, lettuce, purslane, sorrel, parsley, dill, cress, mint were examined. The highest dry matter was found dill plant 21.78% lowest lettuce 7.24%. average protein be 30.58%. net observed sorrel 66.66, value purslane 27.66. In study, it dete...

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to work on this project. I would like to thank Dr. Tyler for serving as my advisor as well as Drs. Priya Vashishta, Rajiv Kalia, and Aiichiro Nakano for their support, encouragement and advice. I would like to sincerely thank Dr. serving on my thesis committee. I would like to thank my mother Verna Lee for her help in preparing t...