damage caused by water shortages leads to physiological and biochemical changes in metabolism of plants and make them predispose to attack by pests and diseases and reduce the quality of the crops. in order to evaluate the effect of supplemental irrigation on safflower fly (a. helianthi) population of safflower cultivars, an experiment conducted as a split plot based on randomized complete bloc...

to assess the genetic relationships between 72 cultivated and 65 wild grapevines in west azerbaijan and in kurdistan, 19 ssr markers were employed. microsatellitic primer pairs amplified, a total of 163 alleles with an average of 8.6 alleles/locus (for cultivars) and 153 alleles with an average of 8.05 alleles/locus (for wild samples). the expected heterozigosity varied from 0.7 in cultivars to...

Previous studies in man have indicated that administration of either plant sterols or unsaturated dietary fats causes decreases in certain serum lipids. This report presents the results of a long-term 7-phase study of the comparative effects of the single and combined administration of plant sterols (p-sitosterol) and a highly unsaturated vegetable oil (safflower oil) in 15 ambulatory subjects....

This study was done to identify the effects of dietary safflower oil or soybean oil on the milk composition of maternal rats and the tissue fatty acid composition in postnatal rats. Different types of dietary fats affected the fatty acid pattern in the dam's milk. They affected tissue weight, lipid content, and phospholipid fatty acid compositions in the liver and brain of young rats, showing a...

To study the clinical effects of Safflower Pill of Dedu Seven Medicinal Herbs combined with Adefovir Dipivoxil on liver fibrosis resulting from chronic viral hepatitis B.116 patients with chronic hepatitis B fibrosis were randomly divided into two groups (n=58 for each group): treatment group (Safflower Pill of Seven Medicinal Herbs combined with Adefovir Dipivoxil) and control group (Adefovir ...

Previous studies in man have indicated that administration of either plant sterols or unsaturated dietary fats causes decreases in certain serum lipids. This report presents the results of a long-term 7-phase study of the comparative effects of the single and combined administration of plant sterols (p-sitosterol) and a highly unsaturated vegetable oil (safflower oil) in 15 ambulatory subjects....

Precarthamin, a yellow precursor of carthamin, was efficiently isolated from the yellow petals of safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L. ) with Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography and preparative HPLC, and identified with UV-vis and NMR spectrometry. The UV-vis spectrum of precarthamin showed lambda(max) of 238 and 406 nm in MeOH. The molar extinction coefficients of precarthamin at 406 nm in MeOH...

Field experiments were conducted in Chile and western Canada to measure short-distance (0 to 100 m) outcrossing from transgenic safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) intended for plant molecular farming to non-transgenic commodity safflower of the same variety. The transgenic safflower used as the pollen source was transformed with a construct for seed-specific expression of a high-value protein ...