The development of simple goiter in rabbits, which results when they are fed on a diet consisting chiefly of cabbage (or other Brassica) can be prevented by the feeding of certain fresh plants. Lawn grass, fresh alfalfa, skunk cabbage and steamed cabbage press juice have been found effective. Washing Brassicae with water improves their goiter-producing action, probably by the removal of goiter-...

the diamondback moth, plutella xylostella (l.) is a serious and economically important pest of cruciferous crops worldwide. the nutritional indices of this pest on four host plants including two canola (slm046 and rgs003) and two cabbage cultivars (green-cornet and glob-master) were determined under laboratory conditions (25 ± 0.5 °c, 65 ± 5% rh and 16: 8 l: d h). the highest relative consumpti...

J. Econ. Enlomo!. 75; 742-745 (1982) Action thresholds for lepidopterans on fresh market cabbage in New York are proposed. These are based on foliage consumption rates of the cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni (Hiibner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), imported cabbageworm, Pieris rapae (L.) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), and diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae), incorporated...

Cuticular waxes covering the outer plant surface impart a whitish appearance. Wax-less cabbage mutant shows glossy in leaf surface and plays important roles in riching cabbage germplasm resources and breeding brilliant green cabbage. This is the first report describing the characterization and fine-mapping of a wax biosynthesis gene using a novel glossy Brassica oleracea mutant. In the present ...

Red cabbage (Brassica oleracea L. Var. Capiata L.) is a fresh edible vegetable abundant in acylated anthocyanins with high antioxidant properties and is a promising resource for the functional food industry. Anthocyanin characterization of red cabbage is not a new topic, but the predominant anthocyanins have been coeluted using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) because of their simi...

INTRODUCTION Brassica vegetables have been related to the prevention of cancer and degenerative diseases, owing to their glucosinolate and phenolic content. OBJECTIVE Identification of glucosinolates, flavonoids and hydroxycinnamic acids in representative varieties of kale, cabbage and leaf rape. METHODOLOGY One local variety of each crop was evaluated in this study using a multi-purpose ch...

In cabbage, glucosinolates such as sinigrin are hydrolyzed by plant myrosinase to allyl isothiocyanate (AITC), allyl cyanide, and, in the presence of an epithiospecifier protein, 1-cyano-2,3-epithiopropane (CEP). Isothiocyanates have been implicated in the cancer-protective effects of Brassica vegetables. The effect of processing on the hydrolysis of glucosinolates was investigated in cabbage. ...

Sasanelli, N., Vovlas, N., Trisciuzzi, N., Cantalapiedra-Navarrete, C., Palomares-Rius, J. E., and Castillo, P. 2013. Pathogenicity and host–parasite relationships of Heterodera cruciferae in cabbage. Plant Dis. 97:333-338. Stunted cabbage (‘Lupini’) associated with severe soil infestations by a cyst-forming nematode were observed in large patches of open fields in Castellaneta, province of Tar...

In the present study, 77 strains of endophytic actinomycetes isolated from cabbage were screened in order to assess their biocontrol potential against Alternaria brassicicola on cabbage seedlings. In the first and second screening trials, cabbage seedlings pretreated with mycelial suspensions of each isolate were spray-inoculated with A. brassicicola. Strain MBCN152-1, which exhibited the best ...