Cellular Na(+)/K(+) ratio is a crucial parameter determining plant salinity stress resistance. We tested the function of plasma membrane Na(+)/K(+) cotransporters in the High-affinity K(+) Transporter (HKT) family from the halophytic Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) relative Thellungiella salsuginea. T. salsuginea contains at least two HKT genes. TsHKT1;1 is expressed at very low levels, while the abundant TsHKT1;2 is transcriptionally strongly up-regulated by salt stress. TsHKT-based RNA interference in T. salsuginea resulted in Na(+) sensitivity and K(+) deficiency. The athkt1 mutant lines overexpressing TsHKT1;2 proved less sensitive to Na(+) and showed less K(+) deficiency than lines overexpressing AtHKT1. TsHKT1;2 ectopically expressed in yeast mutants lacking Na(+) or K(+) transporters revealed strong K(+) transporter activity and selectivity for K(+) over Na(+). Altering two amino acid residues in TsHKT1;2 to mimic the AtHKT1 sequence resulted in enhanced sodium uptake and loss of the ...

Biofuels extracted from the seeds of Camelina sativa have recently been used successfully as environmentally friendly jet-fuel to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Camelina sativa is genetically very close to Arabidopsis thaliana, and both are members of the Brassicaceae. Although public databases are currently available for some members of the Brassicaceae, such as A. thaliana, A. lyrata, Brassica napus, B. juncea and B. rapa, there are no public Expressed Sequence Tags (EST) or genomic data for Camelina sativa. In this study, a high-throughput, large-scale RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) of the Camelina sativa transcriptome was carried out to generate a database that will be useful for further functional analyses. Approximately 27 million clean

On the slopes of the Northern Rocky Mountains, the flowering mustard plant Boechera stricta is undergoing a quiet transformation - that is, evolving into a fitter species better adapted to its local environment. HudsonAlpha faculty investigator Jeremy Schmutz was part of a team led by Thomas Mitchell-Olds of Duke University who analyzed the mechanisms by which Boechera stricta living in a hybrid zone in the Northern Rocky Mountains experienced positive directional selection. Their study was published in Nature Ecology and Evolution in April 2017.. Here, in Boechera stricta we are capturing that moment of selection - the moment when the subpopulation with the inversion takes over from the pre-inversion genotype and outcompetes it, said DOE JGI Plant Program Head Jeremy Schmutz, a co-author on the study. The inversion fixes a set of alleles in the population. Here the set of fixed alleles improves survivability over the previous genotypes. Schmutz is also the co-director of the HudsonAlpha ...

Camelina or false flax (Camelina sativa), of the Brassicaceae, is an annual flowering plant native to Europe and Central Asia where it is grown commercially as an oilseed crop. At the end of May 2012, symptoms of downy mildew were observed on camelina plants grown in the Savinja Valley in Slovenia. The disease was found in four monitored fields (total area 3 ha), and the incidence ranged from 2 to 38% depending on the variety. Symptomatic plants showed whitish, abundant, and fluffy mycelia covering the stems, flowers, seed pods, and undersides of the leaves. The disease mainly affected the upper half of the plants, and the stems were reduced and distorted. During disease progression, the mycelium turned from gray to black. Microscopic observations revealed hyaline, straight conidiophores that were branched monopodially (3 to 4 times) with 6 to 12 re-curved tips/branch, and measured 140 to 300 × 12 to 20 μm. Conidia were hyaline, oval to broadly ellipsoidal, 24 to 29 × 18 to 24 μm. Oospores ...

Summary: The oxidative stability of ω3 -rich oil from Camelina sativa and the storage stability of a camelina oil-based spread were evaluated. Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2621.2003.tb14163.x/abstract

Most molecular studies of plant stress tolerance have been performed with Arabidopsis thaliana, although it is not particularly stress tolerant and may lack protective mechanisms required to survive extreme environmental conditions. Thellungiella salsuginea has attracted interest as an alternative plant model species with high tolerance of various abiotic stresses. While the T. salsuginea genome has recently been sequenced, its annotation is still incomplete and transcriptomic information is scarce. In addition, functional genomics investigations in this species are severely hampered by a lack of affordable tools for genome-wide gene expression studies. Here, we report the results of Thellungiella de novo transcriptome assembly and annotation based on 454 pyrosequencing and development and validation of a T. salsuginea microarray. ESTs were generated from a non-normalized and a normalized library synthesized from RNA pooled from samples covering different tissues and abiotic stress conditions. Both

62. Boechera oxylobula (Greene) W. A. Weber, Phytologia. 51: 370. 1982. Arabis oxylobula Greene, Pittonia 4: 195. 1900; A. aprica Osterhout ex A. Nelson; A. demissa Greene; A. rugocarpa Osterhout; Boechera demissa (Greene) W. A. Weber. Perennials; short- to long-lived; (cespitose); sexual; caudex usually not woody. Stems usually 3-7 per caudex branch, arising from margin of rosette near ground surface, or arising laterally proximal to sterile shoots, 0.4-2.5 dm, glabrous or pubescent proximally, trichomes simple and short-stalked, 2-rayed, 0.1-0.4 mm, glabrous distally. Basal leaves: blade linear to linear-oblanceolate, 1-2.5 mm wide, margins usually entire, rarely denticulate, often ciliate, trichomes (simple), 0.3-0.7 mm, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pubescent, trichomes short-stalked, 2- or 3-rayed, 0.1-0.4 mm. Cauline leaves: 3-12, not concealing stem; blade auricles absent, surfaces of distalmost leaves usually glabrous, rarely sparsely pubescent. Racemes 2-12-flowered, unbranched. ...

This study provides the first comprehensive transcriptome information for the extremophile Arabidopsis relative T. salsuginea. The data constitute a more than three-fold increase in the number of publicly available unigene sequences and will greatly facilitate genome annotation. In addition, we have …

Copyright © 2015 by the Crop Science Society of America, Inc. Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz is a biofuel crop with application on the Great Western Plains of North America that is being developed using genetic engineering. Before release of genetically engineered cultivars, the potential for pollen-mediated gene flow (PMGF) needs to be assessed to determine if they can coexist with conventional cultivars without causing market harm.

Read Expression of cecropin P1 gene increases resistance of Camelina sativa (L.) plants to microbial phytopathogenes, Russian Journal of Genetics on DeepDyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips.

Whereas there is good evidence that the origin of SI is monophyletic in the Brassicaceae, the phylogenetic relationship among S haplotypes in the different genera is less clear (Schierup et al. 2001; Fobis-Loisy et al. 2004). Previous observations of an apparently independent phylogenetic clustering of SRK haplotypes from A. lyrata and cultivated Brassica species (Schierup et al. 2001) have also seemed to favor the notion of separate diversification in the Arabidopsis and Brassica lineages. On the other hand, Schierup et al. (2001) identified a deviant A. lyrata SRK haplotype (Aly13-9/AlSRK09), which was more closely related to Brassica class II SRK haplotypes than to other A. lyrata haplotypes. In a recent study, Paetsch et al. (2006) found that putative SRK haplotypes from the self-incompatible Capsella grandiflora, which is more closely related to Arabidopsis than to Brassica (Yang et al. 1999b), clustered with A. lyrata haplotypes but separately from the Brassica haplotypes. From this ...

In Florida, combining the planting of a biofuels crop with a legume and a short-season oilseed crop may make an intensive and short rotation of crops economically profitable, according to research performed by plant pathologist Dan Chellemi.. During 2010, he added a legume cover crop, which would supply part of the nitrogen, into the rotation with sunflowers. Once the sunflowers were harvested, he returned with Camelina sativa, a deep-rooted 70-day mustard crop known for producing seeds with high oil and high protein content. Because camelina also is a good nutrient forager, Chellemi applied no nitrogen to the plots. Chellemi indicated that while the data is preliminary and not yet conclusive, results warrant continuing trials this season. ...

83. Boechera quebecensis Windham & Al-Shehbaz, Harvard Pap. Bot. 12: 246. 2007. Arabis divaricarpa A. Nelson var. dechamplainii B. Boivin. Biennials or perennials; short-lived; apomictic; caudex present or absent. Stems usually 1 per caudex branch, arising from center of rosette near ground surface, 1-4.5 dm, densely pubescent proximally, trichomes sessile, 2-4-rayed, 0.15-0.5 mm, glabrous distally. Basal leaves: blade oblanceolate, 5-15 mm wide, margins denticulate, ciliate proximally, trichomes (simple), to 1 mm, surfaces moderately pubescent, trichomes subsessile, (2- or) 3-7-rayed, 0.1-0.3 mm. Cauline leaves: 4-15, not concealing stem; blade auricles 1-3.5 mm, surfaces of distalmost leaves glabrous. Racemes 11-41-flowered, usually unbranched. Fruiting pedicels horizontal to slightly descending, curved to straight, 3-8(-14) mm, glabrous or with some subappressed, branched trichomes. Flowers divaricate at anthesis; sepals pubescent; petals white, 6-7 × 1-2 mm, glabrous; pollen spheroid. ...

Camelina FAQs Is it normal to see a crop develop flowers and pods simultaneously? Yes, it is totally normal to have developing pods and flowers on the same plant. The main stem develops the fastest, then the side branches follow, from the top down to the bottom. Eventually, the whole plant will have green pods. Maturi

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Oh, D. H., M. Dassanayake, J. S. Haas, A. Kropornika, C. Wright, M. P. dUrzo, H. Hong, S. Ali, A. Hernandez, G. M. Lambert, G. Inan, D. W. Galbraith, R. A. Bressan, D. J. Yun, J. K. Zhu, J. M. Cheeseman and H. J. Bohnert (2010) Genome Structures and Halophyte-Specific Gene Expression of the Extremophile Thellungiella parvula in Comparison with Thellungiella salsuginea (Thellungiella halophila) and Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology. 154, 3, 1040-1052. (see details) ...

Define sweet alyssum. sweet alyssum synonyms, sweet alyssum pronunciation, sweet alyssum translation, English dictionary definition of sweet alyssum. n. An annual or perennial herb in the mustard family, native to the Mediterranean region and widely cultivated for its small, fragrant, typically white or...

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Sisymbrium altissimum resembles the much more common Sisymbrium irio in most respects, including the yellow flowers, sessile leaves, pinnatifid upper stem leaves, and long ascending fruits. On Sisymbrium altissimum, the fruiting pedicels are about as thick as the siliques, rather than much narrower as with S. irio ...

Salt cress (Thellungiella halophila), a halophyte, is a genetic model system with a small plant size, short life cycle, copious seed production, small genome size, and an efficient transformation. Its genes have a high sequence identity (90%-95% at cDNA level) to genes of its close relative, Arabidopsis. These qualities are advantageous not only in genetics but also in genomics, such as gene expression profiling using Arabidopsis cDNA microarrays. Although salt cress plants are salt tolerant and can grow in 500 mm NaCl medium, they do not have salt glands or other morphological alterations either before or after salt adaptation. This suggests that the salt tolerance in salt cress results from mechanisms that are similar to those operating in glycophytes. To elucidate the differences in the regulation of salt tolerance between salt cress and Arabidopsis, we analyzed the gene expression profiles in salt cress by using a full-length Arabidopsis cDNA microarray. In salt cress, only a few genes were ...

Succulent annual herb 10 cm - 0.8 m tall Leaves: alternate, 7.5 - 12.5 cm long, lance-shaped to spatula-shaped, wavy-toothed to lobed. Flowers: pale lavender to yellowish white, 5 mm wide. Petals four. Stamens six. Fruit: a pod, 8 mm - 2 cm long, with a somewhat flattened beak. The pod is divided into two dissimilar joints: a small, cylindrical lower joint and a 3 - 9 mm wide, four-angled, egg-shaped or lance- egg-shaped upper joint (see Similar Species). The pods are corky when dry. Stems: upright to spreading, giving the plant a bushy appearance. Similar species: When the upper joint of the pod is 3 - 5 mm wide, lance- egg-shaped and long-beaked, then the plant is referred to as Cakile edentula ssp. edentula var. lacustris. When the upper joint of the pod is 5 - 9 mm wide, egg-shaped and short-beaked, then the plant is referred to as C. edentula ssp. edentula var. edentula.. Flowering: June to late November. Habitat and ecology: A species of coastal sands. In the Chicago Region, this plant is ...

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: angiosperms • Cladus: eudicots • Cladus: core eudicots • Cladus: superrosids • Cladus: rosids • Cladus: eurosids II • Ordo: Brassicales • Familia: Brassicaceae • Tribus: Brassiceae • Genus: Eruca • Species: Eruca vesicaria • Subspecies: Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa (Mill.) Thell. ...

aut,Hu, H., Hu, Q., Al-Shehbaz, I.A., Luo, X., Zeng, T., Guo, X. and Liu, J.}} 2016. Species delimitation and interspecific relationships of the genus Orychophragmus (Brassicaceae) inferred from whole chloroplast genomes. Frontiers in Plant Science 7: 1826. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01826 Full text HTML ...

Sisymbrium altissimum (Tumbling Mustard, Tall Tumblemustard) - 19 images at 128.253.192.30 image, phylogeny, nomenclature for Sisymbrium altissimum

Once considered a weed, camelina is finding favor in some parts of the country as a soil-protecting winter cover crop. Oil from the seed of this yellow-flowered, herbaceous member of the mustard family can also be made into first-rate cooking oil and high-quality biodiesel, offering a renewable alternative to using imported petroleum for that fuel. (See

February 2, 2016 - Once considered a weed, camelina is gaining popularity in some parts of the country as a soil-protecting winter cover crop. Additionally, its seed contains high-quality oil for use in cooking and as biodiesel, offering a renewable alternative to imported petroleum.

Camelina is a new oil crop in North America. Camelina meal, a by-product of the camelina oil extraction process, typically contains 10% to 15% residual oil and 40% crude protein. As camelina oil demand increases, utilization ...

According to research published in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, consuming fatty fish and camelina oil are beneficial to cholesterol levels.

The use of camelina oil reduces overall and LDL cholesterol levels in persons with impaired glucose metabolism, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland. The findings were published in Molecular Nutrition & Food Research.

Rothamsted Research has achieved omega-3 levels comparable to fish oil in its first GM camelina harvest, something which has been surprisingly well received by the public, its senior researcher says.

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In angiosperm organelles, RNA editing alters specific cytidines to uridines. The mechanism involves recognition of cis-sequences surrounding specific Cs by nuclear-encoded proteins, but the particular molecular interactions and catalytic activities remain unclear. Functional analyses of the cis-elements suggest the upstream sequences act as binding sites for editing trans-factors. One trans-factor, REQUIRED FOR ACCD RNA EDITING 1 (RARE1), is essential for RNA editing in the chloroplast accD transcript. This study examines 19 Brassicaceae species for editing patterns in the accD transcripts and utilizes comprehensive sequence analysis of RARE1 homologs to analyze the evolutionary interaction between the cis-elements and trans-factors. The overall Ka/Ks ratio suggests all orthologous RARE1 genes undergo negative selection although the varying Ka/Ks ratios for individual motifs indicate certain motifs are more conserved. In Brassicaceae species lacking editing at the accD site, RARE1 orthologs show ...

Garden cress is a type of fast-growing annual herb in the Brassicaceae family. There are several different uses for garden cress...

Maca is a plant that belongs to the Brassicaceae family. This cruciferous vegetable is a relative of mustard, turnip, broccoli and cauliflower. When we say maca root, we are referring to the root of the maca plant, which bears a…. Read More ...

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Health Benefits of Cauliflower - Cauliflower is a cruciferous vegetable and is a part of the brassicaceae family. Its florets are usually consumed, though..

The project uses camelina, a distant relative of oilseed rape and one of Europe s oldest oilseed crops. Camelina is naturally high in omega-3, but these are the short-chain fatty acids and not the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids which bring health benefits. To change the profile of oils, the team introduced synthetic genes into the camelina, similar to those found in algae. The transgenic plants contain the biochemical pathway which produces long-chain omega-3. This oil can then be extracted from the seed and fed to fish in a pure form, as a more sustainable alternative to fish oil sourced from the sea ...

IntroductionIt is rather difficult to delimit recently diverged species and construct their interspecific relationships because of insufficient informative variations of sampled DNA fragments (Schluter, 2000; Arnold, 2006). The genome-scale sequence variations were found to increase the phylogenetic resolutions of both high- and low-taxonomic groups (e.g., Yoder et al., 2013; Lamichhaney et al., 2015). It is still expensive to collect nuclear genome variations between species for most none-model genera without the reference genome. However, chloroplast genomes (plastome) are relatively easy to be assembled to examine interspecific relationships for phylogenetic analyses, especially in addressing unresolved relationship at low taxonomic levels (Wu et al., 2010; Nock et al., 2011; Yang et al., 2013; Huang et al., 2014; Carbonell-Caballero et al., 2015). Plastomes are haploid with maternal inheritance in most angiosperms (Corriveau and Coleman, 1988; Zhang and Liu, 2003; Hagemann, 2004) and are highly

Self-incompatibility in plants of the Brassicaceae family is controlled by a highly diversified molecular lock-and-key system consisting of a large set of specific haplotypic combinations of only two genes. This system has been a textbook example of natural (balancing) selection, in the form of a strong reproductive advantage for individuals expressing rare alleles. These haplotypes also form a striking linear dominance/recessivity hierarchy, whereby most heterozygote combinations express only one self-incompatibility specificity at the phenotypic level. In this seminar, I will detail how we recently identified the molecular determinants of this dominance hierarchy and showed that it is based on a complex regulatory network based on the interactions between a dedicted set of small non-coding RNAs produced by dominant alleles and their target sites in recessive alleles. I will review several key features of the topology of these interactions and combine theoretical modelling and functional ...

Description. Food security is a growing risk with the exponentially increasing population. Current methods of increasing crop output are causing serious damage to valuable habitats. One potential solution to this problem is to increase the yield of crops. Arabidopsis thaliana, the model organism for plants,is a member of the Brassicaceae family of plants; this is an economically important group of plants as it contains many crop plants, such as the cabbage. Using a molecular biology approach, I investigated the potential of using a genetic mutantresistant to a plant growth factor (BZR1-1D)as an alternative to the wildtype (Col-0), the type which appears most commonly in nature, of A.thalianato produce more seeds as a way of increasing yield. This has been done by growing wildtype and BZR1-1D mutant ...

Ill admit it. Im a gambling man. Many gardeners begin cleaning out their garden right after the first frost. While they know that many species in the garden can handle light frosts, many like to go ahead and harvest whatever produce remains, and clean up the garden before a really hard frost kills everything.. But I like to push our gardens limits, because many of the fall and winter vegetables left growing in the garden get sweeter and sweeter as the days get colder and colder, and shorter and shorter. As long as there isnt a killing frost, the garden just gets better and better. That which doesnt kill us makes us sweeter, so to speak. So why does this happen?. Many of the plants from the Brassicaceae family - including brussels sprouts, turnips, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and rutabaga - survive the downturn in temperatures by turning some of their stored starches into soluble sugars. This helps prevent the liquid in the leaves from freezing (think of how sugary liquids dont fully ...

Silique. A many-seeded capsule of the Mustard (Brassicaceae ) family, with two valves splitting from the bottom and leaving the placentae with the false partition between them ...

Research on the metabolism of extremophilic bacteria (Thermotoga, Caldicellulosiruptor) and archaea (Pyrococcus, Thermococcus) has been ongoing for many years, and focused on their sugar catabolism, central metabolic pathways, hydrogen production and archaeal lipid biosynthesis. Currently, extremophile research is more directed towards the fundamental aspects of chromosome segregation, involving state-of-the art protein imaging techniques. In addition to the extremophile work, research also encompasses mesophilic solventogenic and acetogenic Clostridia. These microorganisms have various metabolic features, like butanol formation and fixation of C1-gases (CO/CO2), that make them interesting for biotechnological purposes. By making use of novel genome editing tools, we want to engineer the metabolism of these fermentative anaerobes, and apply them for the bio-based production of fuels and chemicals ...

Sisymbrium altissimum is a ANNUAL growing to 1 m (3ft 3in). It is not frost tender. It is in flower from June to August, and the seeds ripen from July to September. The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs) and is pollinated by Insects. The plant is self-fertile. Suitable for: light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils. Suitable pH: acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It prefers dry or moist soil.

To elucidate how and which structural genomic changes may influence the stress tolerance of extremophile organisms, both Dassanayake et al. [3] and Wu et al. [4] take advantage of a priori knowledge of gene function, as inferred through sequence homology, by applying this functional information to a focus on copy number variations. A simple method for identifying the functional categories whose constituent genes are subject to recent expansion is to perform gene set enrichment analyses. These analyses are frequently based on gene ontology annotations and can be used to identify functional groups of genes (or annotations) that are statistically over- or underrepresented in one genome compared with another. In both Thellungiella studies [3, 4], gene set enrichment analysis shows that numerous categories of genes already known to be related to abiotic stress, including response to salt stress, abscisic acid stimulus, transporter activity and development, are indeed overrepresented in the ...

Gametophytic apomixis is a common form of asexual reproduction in plants. Virtually all gametophytic apomicts are polyploids, and some view polyploidy as a prerequisite for the transition to apomixis. However, any causal link between apomixis and polyploidy is complicated by the fact that most apomictic polyploids are allopolyploids, leading some to speculate that hybridization, rather than polyploidy, enables apomixis. Diploid apomixis presents a rare opportunity to isolate the role of hybridization, and a number of diploid apomicts have been documented in the genus Boechera (Brassicaceae). Here, we present the results of a microsatellite study of 1393 morphologically and geographically diverse diploid individuals, evaluating the hypothesis that diploid Boechera apomicts are hybrids. This genus-wide dataset was made possible by the applicability of a core set of microsatellite loci in 69 of the 70 diploid Boechera species and by our ability to successfully genotype herbariu! m specimens of ...

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article{4213140, abstract = {In apomictic Boechera spp., meiotic diplospory leads to the circumvention of meiosis and the suppression of recombination to produce unreduced male and female gametes (i.e. apomeiosis). Here, we have established an early flower developmental staging system and have performed microarray-based comparative gene expression analyses of the pollen mother cell stage in seven diploid sexual and seven diploid apomictic genotypes to identify candidate factors for unreduced pollen formation. We identified a transcript unique to apomictic Boechera spp. called UPGRADE2 (BspUPG2), which is highly up-regulated in their pollen mother cells. BspUPG2 is highly conserved among apomictic Boechera spp. genotypes but has no homolog in sexual Boechera spp. or in any other taxa. BspUPG2 undergoes posttranscriptional processing but lacks a prominent open reading frame. Together with the potential of stably forming microRNA-like secondary structures, we hypothesize that BspUPG2 functions as a ...

Biology - Research Paper Example For instance, Bellard, McCarthy and Meekins studied on genetic variation as well as biogeography of Alliaria petiolata in North America in 1st January 2001. According to their findings, Alliaria petiolata varied in not only phenology, but also morphology across all the native plants in which it grew ( Bellard, McCarthy and Meekins 161). They also found out that Alliaria petiolata also varied in terms of seed dormancy. In their results, they also stipulate that Alliaria petiolata is a hexaploid plant species based on n=7. In tandem to Bellard, McCarthy and Meekins findings, Hanson and McCarthy also claim that Alliaria petiolata is one of the plant species that have contributed to the loss of many indigenous plants in North America. They assert that Alliaria petiolata is a non-indigenous plant species that belongs to Brassicaceae family (Hanson and McCarthy 68). According to them, it was first identified in North America in early 1868. Unlike other Brassicaceae, ...

We have compared the transcriptomic profiles of microdissected live ovules at four developmental stages between a diploid sexual and diploid apomictic Boechera. We sequenced ,2 million SuperSAGE tags and identified (1) heterochronic tags (n = 595) that demonstrated significantly different patterns of expression between sexual and apomictic ovules across all developmental stages, (2) stage-specific tags (n = 577) that were found in a single developmental stage and differentially expressed between the sexual and apomictic ovules, and (3) sex-specific (n = 237) and apomixis-specific (n = 1106) tags that were found in all four developmental stages but in only one reproductive mode. Most heterochronic and stage-specific tags were significantly downregulated during early apomictic ovule development, and 110 were associated with reproduction. By contrast, most late stage-specific tags were upregulated in the apomictic ovules, likely the result of increased gene copy number in apomictic (hexaploid) ...

Arabis arcuata var. secunda (Howell) B.L.Rob., more, Arabis caduca A.Nelson, Arabis consanguinea Greene, Arabis exilis A.Nelson, Arabis holboellii var. consanguinea (Greene) G.A.Mulligan, Arabis holboellii var. secunda (Howell) Jeps., Arabis holboellii var. tenuis Böcher, Arabis kochii Blank., Arabis lignipes A.Nelson, Arabis mcdougalii , Arabis polyantha Greene, Arabis retrofracta Graham, Arabis retrofracta var. multicaulis B.Boivin, Arabis rhodanthus , Arabis secunda Howell, Arabis tenuis Greene, Boechera exilis (A.Nelson) Dorn, Boechera holboellii var. retrofracta , Boechera holboellii var. secunda (Howell) Dorn, Boechera tenuis (Bocher) Á.Löve & D.Löve ...

The Brassicaceae (the mustard family, or Cruciferae), an angiosperm family includes several plants of major agronomic, scientific and economic importance. Apart from containing several cultivated species (such as radish, rocket, watercress, wasabi, horseradish, vegetable and oil crops), this family is proud to have model species (Arabidopsis, Alyssum and Brassica), and developing model generic systems (Boechera, Brassica, and Cardamine). In particular, Arabidopsis thaliana (being the first plant species to have its genome sequenced), Thlaspi sp., and Brassica oilseed species (holding the third position among oilseed crops and are an important source of vegetable oil) have revolutionized our knowledge in almost every field of modern plant biology. Additionally, several representatives of the family Brassicaceae have potential to grow fast, yield high biomass, well-adapted to a range of environmental conditions; hence, are equally playing significant roles for achieving environmental sustainability

A crucial prerequisite for plant growth and survival is the maintenance of potassium uptake, especially when high sodium surrounds the root zone. The Arabidopsis HIGH-AFFINITY K+ TRANSPORTER1 (HKT1), and its homologs in other salt-sensitive dicots, contributes to salinity tolerance by removing Na+ from the transpiration stream. However, TsHKT1;2, one of three HKT1 copies in Thellungiella salsuginea, a halophytic Arabidopsis relative, acts as a K+ transporter in the presence of Na+ in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). Amino-acid sequence comparisons indicated differences between TsHKT1;2 and most other published HKT1 sequences with respect to an Asp residue (D207) in the second pore-loop domain. Two additional T. salsuginea and most other HKT1 sequences contain Asn (n) in this position. Wild-type TsHKT1;2 and altered AtHKT1 (AtHKT1N-D) complemented K+-uptake deficiency of yeast cells. Mutant hkt1-1 plants complemented with both AtHKT1N-D and TsHKT1;2 showed higher tolerance to salt stress than ...

Summary: Extracts of quercetin glycosides from three-week old leaves of Camelina sativa were tested for their effects on crucifer flea beetle feeding. Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030519781100247X

Patrick J. Horn, Jinjie Liu, Jean-Christophe Cocuron, Kathleen McGlew, Nicholas A. Thrower, Matt Larson, Chaofu Lu, Ana P. Alonso, and John Ohlrogge, 2016. Identification of multiple lipid genes with modifications in expression and sequence associated with the evolution of hydroxy fatty acid accumulation in Physaria fendleri. The Plant Journal 86(4), 322-348. Saroj Poudel, Niranjan Aryal, and Chaofu Lu, 2015. Identification of microRNAs and transcript targets in Camelina sativa by deep sequencing and computational methods. PLoS One 10(3), e0121542. Anna R. Snapp, Jinling Kang, Xiaoli Qi, and Chaofu Lu, 2014. A fatty acid condensing enzyme from Physaria fendleri increases hydroxy fatty acid accumulation in transgenic oilseeds of Camelina sativa. Planta 240(3), 599-610. Anna Snapp and Chaofu Lu, 2013. Engineering industrial fatty acids in oilseeds. Frontiers in Biology 8:323-332. Huu Nguyen, Jillian Silva, Ram Podicheti, Jason Macrander, Wenyu Yang, Tara Nazarenus, Jeong-Won Nam, Jan Jaworski, ...

PubMed journal article Eruca sativa seeds possess antioxidant activity and exert a protective effect on mercuric chloride induced renal toxicit were found in PRIME PubMed. Download Prime PubMed App to iPhone or iPad.

Capsella is a genus of herbaceous plant and biennial plants in the mustard family Brassicaceae.[1] It is a close relative of Arabidopsis, Neslia, and Halimolobos.[2] Some recent authors circumscribe Capsella to contain only three species: Capsella bursa-pastoris, Capsella rubella and Capsella grandiflora.[2] Capsella rubella is a self-fertilizing species that became self-compatible 50,000 to 100,000 years ago. Its outcrossing progenitor was Capsella grandiflora. In general, the shift from outcrossing to self-fertilization is among the most common transitions in flowering plants. Capsella rubella is studied as a model for understanding the evolution of self-fertilization.[3][4] ...

Brassicaceae are almost exclusively pollinated by insects. A chemical mechanism in the pollen is active in many species to avoid selfing. Two notable exceptions are exclusive self pollination in closed flowers in Cardamine chenopodifolia, and wind pollination in Pringlea antiscorbutica.[7] Although it can be pollinated, Alliaria petiolata is self-fertile. Most species reproduce sexually through seed, but Cardamine bulbifera produces gemmae and in others, such as Cardamine pentaphyllos, the coral-like roots easily break into segments, that will grow into separate plants.[7] In some species, such as in the genus Cardamine, seed pods open with force and so catapult the seeds quite far. Many of these have sticky seed coats, assisting long distance dispersal by animals, and this may also explain several intercontinental dispersal events in the genus, and its near global distribution. Brassicaceae are common on serpentine and dolomite rich in magnesium. Over a hundred species in the family accumulate ...

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These experiences come from living at Harvard Forest, and traveling within Massachusetts and New York with my mentors Mercedes Harris and Erin Coates, two master students from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.. All the sites that I have traveled to are characteristically similar second-growth forests that are invaded by the Eurasian herbaceous plant garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata). Garlic mustard is an invasive plant from the Brassicaceae family. It was introduced to North America in the 1860s. The Brassica produces chemicals within its roots and leaves. Through release of its secondary compounds, garlic mustard disrupts the relationships between fungi and water conducting native plants. Garlic mustard has no natural predators in North America, which allows for its successful high abundance. To reduce the effects of native plant displacement by invasive garlic mustard, actions to remove it have been developed, such as herbicide spraying and manually hand pulling the plant and its ...

Premise of the study : Cryptic species are superfi cially morphologically indistinguishable and therefore erroneously classifi ed under one single name. The identifi cation and delimitation of these species is usually a diffi cult task. The main aim of this study is to provide an inclusive methodology that combines standard and new tools to allow accurate identifi cation of cryptic species. We used Erysimum nervosum s.l. as a model system. • Methods : Four populations belonging to E. nervosum s.l. were sampled at their two distribution ranges in Morocco (the Atlas Mountains and the Rif Mountains). Fifteen individuals per population were collected to assess standard taxonomic traits. Additionally, corolla color and shape were quantifi ed in 30 individuals per population using spectrophotometry and geometric morphometrics, respectively. Finally, we collected tissue samples from each population per species to study the phylogenetic relationships among them. • Key results : Using the standard ...

Wild rocket [Diplotaxis tenuifolia (L.) DC.] belongs to the Brassicaceae family and has its origin in the Mediterranean region. The effect of conventional and integrated cultivation practices on the nutritional properties and benefits of wild rocket [Diplotaxis tenuifolia (L.) DC.] were studied. Bioactive molecules content (vitamin C, quercetin, lutein), antioxidant properties and bioactivity of polyphenolic extracts from the edible part of rocket in Caco-2 cells were determined. Regarding antioxidant properties, FRAP (Ferric Reducing Antioxidant Power) values ranged from 4.44 ± 0.11 mmol/kg fw to 9.92 ± 0.46 mmol/kg fw for conventional rocket and from 4.13 ± 0.17 fw mmol/kg to 11.02 ± 0.45 mmol/kg fw for integrated rocket. The characteristics of wild rocket as a dietary source of antioxidants have been pointed out. Significant differences in the quality of conventional and integrated rocket have been shown, while no influence of agronomic practice on biological activity was reported. A significant

INTRODUCTION The cabbage (Brassica oleraceae var. capitata) is an herbaceous and leafy plant which belongs to the Brassicaceae family, native to coastal southern and Western Europe. It presents a high versatility, not only due to its nutritive value, being rich in calcium, protein and vitamin C, but also due to its social character, due to the fact of being cultivated essentially by small-scale farmers(12, 28, 29). Brassica sp. is reported to have been utilized for over one thousand years in the healing process of abscesses, idiopathic cephalgias, internal ulcers; the Romans utilized Brassica sp. in the treatment of injuries(4). Cheney(13) verified that the patients who utilized the fresh cabbage juice obtained a healing action for gastric disorders, particularly for the peptic ulcer, presenting healing effects of the lesion. The chronic administration of non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is associated with the development of gastrointestinal adverse effects, such as gastric ...

Perennials; short- to long-lived; sexual; caudex usually not woody. Stems usually 2-4 per caudex branch, arising from center of rosette near ground surface, or arising laterally proximal to sterile shoots, 0.6-2 dm, glabrous throughout. Basal leaves: blade oblanceolate, 2-6 mm wide, margins entire, rarely ciliate along petiole, trichomes (simple), 0.5-0.7 mm, surfaces glabrous. Cauline leaves: 5-9, rarely concealing stem proximally; blade auricles 0.7-2.5 mm, surfaces of distalmost leaves glabrous. Racemes 4-12-flowered, usually unbranched. Fruiting pedicels divaricate-ascending to horizontal, straight, 2.5-8 mm, glabrous. Flowers ascending at anthesis; sepals glabrous; petals lavender, 4-5.5 × 1.5-2 mm, glabrous; pollen ellipsoid. Fruits usually divaricate-ascending, rarely slightly descending, usually secund, straight to slightly curved, 1.9-4 cm × 2-3 mm; valves glabrous; ovules 52-72 per ovary; style 0.05-0.2 mm. Seeds biseriate, 1.1-1.4 × 0.8-1 mm; wing continuous, 0.07-0.15 mm wide ...

Grown in Alberta, Taiwanese Flat cabbage, botanically classified as Brassica oleracea var. capitata, is an unusually shaped, flat cabbage that belongs to the Brassicaceae family. Also known as Flat cabbage in English and Li Sun Sweet cabbage and Li Sun cabbage in Taiwanese, Taiwanese Flat cabbage gets its Taiwanese nam

This article discusses vegetables which belong to the Brassicaceae family, including broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower. History, origin, varieties and cooking techniques are discussed.

Armoracia (Horseradish) -- a perennial plant of the Brassicaceae family, which also includes mustard, wasabi, and cabbages. fact lexicon with terms going straight to the point. Facts are sorted by community importance and you can build your personalized lexicon

Like Brussels sprouts, cauliflower is one of those misunderstood vegetables. Its certainly not the prettiest veggie on campus, but its one of the healthiest.. When properly cooked and seasoned, cauliflower is delicious-one of my favorites. I buy it at least once a week, usually to steam or roast as a side dish.. These days, cauliflower is available year-round. A member of the Brassicaceae family (broccoli, cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens), it delivers a cancer-fighting compound called sulforaphane. A half-cup of cooked cauliflower provides 45% of your daily vitamin C requirement, as well as 2 g fiber, while weighing in at only 15 calories.. When choosing an organic cauliflower, look for a head thats white or creamy, firm, compact, and heavy for its size. Toss aside heads that have dark spots, brown patches or other discolorations.. When you arrive home, place your cauliflower (stem side up) in your refrigerators crisper, where it should last for up to five days. If you buy ...

When shopping at farmers markets, I often stumble upon familiar-looking vegetables cloaked in exotic colors-green zebra tomatoes, purple potatoes, yellow lemon cucumbers and black radishes, to name a few. Cauliflower, a readily available but mostly unpopular member of the Brassicaceae family, comes in several eye-catching colors: light green (with funky-looking spikes), orange, traditional white and, my favorite-purple.

Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana Gaertn) is a perennial crop belonging to the Brassicaceae family, widely used as spice in foods and herbal ingredient in ethno-medicine. In this study, were evaluated the phenolic compounds content, antioxidant capacity and anti-lipase activity of methanol, methanol/water (70/30, v/v) and methanol/water (50/50, v/v) extracts of horseradish roots and leaves. Among the extracts tested, both roots and leaves aqueous methanolic (70/30, v/v and 50/50, v/v) extracts showed higher total phenol and flavonoid contents and antioxidant capacity than the corresponding methanol extracts. But extraction yield was high for methanol/water (50/50, v/v) extracts, in both roots and leaves. The extracts exhibited anti-lipase activity in dose-dependent manner. The results showed that the extraction yield and the antioxidant capacity were strictly dependent on the solvent polarity. The results suggest that A. rusticana could provide opportunities for the development of functional food ...

Horseradish: Studies have indicated that some horseradish constituents have antibiotic activity. Clinical study has used a combination product that contained nasturtium herb and horseradish root to treat sinusitis. Although the treatment had similar results as the standard antibiotic therapy control, the effect of horseradish alone cannot be isolated due to the use of a combination product. Additional high-quality clinical studies are needed before a conclusion can be made. Avoid if allergic or hypersensitive to horseradish (Armoracia rusticana), its constituents, or members of the Brassicaceae family. Large oral doses may provoke allergic reactions. Use cautiously with clotting disorders, hypotension (low blood pressure), thyroid disorders, kidney disorders, kidney inflammation, gastrointestinal conditions, skin ulcers, and stomach ulcers. Use cautiously if taking anticoagulants or antiplatelets (blood thinning agents), antihypertensives (blood pressure-lowering agents), anti-inflammatory ...

Horseradish: Studies have indicated that some horseradish constituents have antibiotic activity. Clinical study has used a combination product that contained nasturtium herb and horseradish root to treat sinusitis. Although the treatment had similar results as the standard antibiotic therapy control, the effect of horseradish alone cannot be isolated due to the use of a combination product. Additional high-quality clinical studies are needed before a conclusion can be made. Avoid if allergic or hypersensitive to horseradish (Armoracia rusticana), its constituents, or members of the Brassicaceae family. Large oral doses may provoke allergic reactions. Use cautiously with clotting disorders, hypotension (low blood pressure), thyroid disorders, kidney disorders, kidney inflammation, gastrointestinal conditions, skin ulcers, and stomach ulcers. Use cautiously if taking anticoagulants or antiplatelets (blood thinning agents), antihypertensives (blood pressure-lowering agents), anti-inflammatory ...

Three Australian Sisymbrium orientale and one Brassica tournefortii biotypes are resistant to acetolactate synthase (ALS)-inhibiting herbicides due to their possession of an ALS enzyme with decreased sensitivity to these herbicides. Enzyme kinetic studies revealed no interbiotypic differences within species in Km (pyruvate) (the substrate concentration at which the reaction rate is half maximal) but a greater Vmax (the rate when the enzyme is fully saturated with substrate) for two of the resistant S. orientale biotypes over susceptible levels. F1 hybrids from reciprocal crosses between resistant and susceptible biotypes of S. orientale showed an intermediate response to chlorsulfuron compared to the parental plants. ALS herbicide resistance in S. orientale segregated in a 3:1 (resistant:susceptible) ratio in F2 plants with a single rate of chlorsulfuron, indicating that resistance is inherited as a single, incompletely dominant nuclear gene. Two regions of the ALS structural gene known to vary ...

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Autor: Sharbel, T. F. et al.; Genre: Zeitschriftenartikel; Im Druck veröffentlicht: 2001; Keywords: aneuploid; apomixis; Arabis holboelii; chloroplast; haplotype; polyploid|br/|Chromosome-number; rust infection; evolution; mechanisms; genetics; apomixis; pathways; plants; Titel: Recurrent polyploid origins and chloroplast phylogeography in the Arabis holboellii complex (Brassicaceae)

This project is part of the DFG Priority Programme Adaptomics.. Metal hyperaccumulation and metal hypertolerance (mh) are common traits in many Brassicaceae species. However, neither its ecological consequences nor the role of ecological interactions on natural trait variation have been studied. Here, we focus on two genetic model species (Arabidopsis halleri, Noccaea caerulescens) to study the causes and consequences of natural variation in this trait with a special focus on the role of negative and positive plant-plant interactions. To that end, we combine field and greenhouse studies, high-end molecular tools, quantitative genetics and experimental approaches of community ecology.. We investigate the idea that a trade-off between competitive ability and stress tolerance exists in this system, affecting the performance of individual plants and determining the extent of genetic and phenotypic variation. We hypothesized that facilitation in populations and communities with metal accumulating ...

Camelina is an alternative oilseed crop species with limited information about the origin and diversity of available germplasm. Therefore, a set of 130 camelina accessions from a world collection was evaluated for oil content, protein content and 1000-seed weight in field experiments grown in three macro-environments in Austria. Based on phenotypic data, accessions were categorized into four groups with different seed characteristics using k-means cluster analysis or principal component extraction. Subsequently, a representative set of 41 accessions was subjected to random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis. Of 24 primers, 15 were polymorphic producing a total of 30 marker loci. Genetic distance estimates between the 41 accessions were calculated, based both on RAPD polymorphism and on seed quality characteristics, and dendrograms were generated for comparison. Similarities were found between the two different clustering approaches, and grouping was partly in agreement with pedigree ...

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Over the course of 2017 we have focused on generating proof points in key crops for our C3003 yield trait gene, said Oliver Peoples, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Yield10. We remain on track to report results from field tests of C3003 in Camelina and canola as well as initial greenhouse studies in soybean in the fourth quarter of 2017 which will enable us to plan and prioritize our research and development activities for C3003 in 2018. In addition, we have made good progress this year developing our genome editing capabilities with the goal of creating plants with desirable performance and yield characteristics and a potentially shorter path to market in the U.S. We look forward to continuing to advance development of our novel yield traits in key crops in field tests and greenhouse studies in 2018.. Yield10s 2017 development program for the novel yield trait gene C3003 involves testing the trait in Camelina, canola, soybean and rice. In the third quarter, Yield10 completed ...

I always use these two products in combination. I mostly use them at night - applying around 3 or 4 drops of Omega 3 Night Repair Serum and one pump of the Frankincense Revitalising Night Cream. I use this combo a few times during the day as well (when I need some extra hydration). They are suitable for all skin types; I have normal to dry skin and they work amazing. They are both delicately scented - the serum has a sweet scent while the cream has a herbal scent (I am not the biggest fan of the scent of cream, but it vanishes relatively quick). The result is radiant and smoothed skin (as they promise at REN). The serum is light and relatively quickly absorbed in to my skin (therefore it might be great for those with oily skin type as well). The night cream is thick, but not heavy; it has a calming effect on my skin. If I look down at the ingreditent list, I must say that I see only the best - such as Camelina Sativa Oil in Omega 3 Night Repair Serum (rich in omega 3 fatty acids). Overall, I can ...

Use of 3 ruch oilseed cameline (Camelina sativa) as a fish oil replacement in aquaculture feeds: Implications for growth and lipid biochemistry of farmed Atlantic cod (Gadus morhus), Rainbow trout (Oncrhynchus mykiss) and atlantic salmon (Salmo salar ...

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Schrenkiella parvula, also called Thellungiella parvula, is a small herbaceous plant that is closely related to Arabidopsis thaliana. It is often used as a model organism for environmental stress responses due to its small genome size, similarity to A. thaliana, and its extreme tolerance to salinity. The S. parvula genome is diploid and has a size of 140 Mb.. Genome release:. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3586812/. Dassanayake, M., Oh, D.H., Haas, J.S., Hernandez, A., Hong, H., Ali, S., Yun, D.J., Bressan, R.A., Zhu, J.K., Bohnert, H.J. and Cheeseman, J.M., 2011. The genome of the extremophile crucifer Thellungiella parvula. Nature genetics, 43(9), p.913 ...

Several epidemiologic studies suggest that consumption of cruciferous vegetables may be particularly effective (compared with total fruit and vegetable consumption) in reducing cancer risk at several organ sites. Crucifers that are widely consumed are especially rich in glucosinolates, which are con …

Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: All the species of Lesquerella and the closely related genus Physaria (Brassicaceae) possess seed-oil rich in one of three types of hydroxy fatty acids (HFA) as the main component of their oil profiles. These HFAs (lesquerolic, densipolic, auricolic) could be used as replacements for imported castor oil in the production of plastics, lubricants, protective coatings, surfactants, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. Because of considerable genetic variation for chemical composition of the seed oil and other important agronomic characteristics both within and among species, new germplasm is required to assist the commercialization efforts; therefore, we have made new collections from the US and Mexico. Hybridization and polyploidy shows promise for increasing favorable traits, so cytology is being carried out on new accessions. Several new chromosome counts have been attained along with the first record of an inversion in Physaria. ...

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By the time this article is posted, I will be high up in the Andes mountains of Peru working with maca, a plant I have focused on for over 12 years. It seems fitting, then, to share some information about maca with you.. Maca, Lepidium meyenii , is the only cruciferous plant native to Peru. The cruciferous plants include rapeseed (the source of canola oil), radish, cauliflower, cabbage, brussel sprouts, Chinese cabbage, mustard, garden rocket, and watercress. Maca is an annual plant with a rosette of frilly leaves lying close to the ground. The plant produces a turnip-like hypocotyl, a tuber which matures within approximately seven months after seeds are planted. The tubers may be red, green, black, pink, purplish, yellow, or cream colored. Locals in the Peruvian highlands claim that yellow roots are preferable, because they are sweeter. Yellow maca accounts for just over 36 percent of harvest on average. The root of maca is dried and stored before use and will keep for seven years.. Details ...

Duration: Annual Nativity: Non-Native Lifeform: Forb/Herb General: Annual herb, up to 75 cm tall, from a taproot; stems erect, branching from base and above; herbage glabrous to sparsely pubescent. Leaves: Basal leaves petiolate, not arranged in a rosette; stem leaves alternate, petiolate; blades oblanceolate or oblong in outline, 3-12 cm long, pinnately divided into 2-6 pairs of lobes; margins entire, dentate, or lobed; uppermost stem leaves sometimes not lobed. Flowers: Yellow, in usually several terminal racemes per plant; pedicels ascending, 5-14 mm, slender, much narrower than the fruit; sepals 4, green; petals 4, 3-4 mm long, yellow; Fruits: Capsules linear, slender, < 1 mm in diameter, 2-5 cm long, curving upward. Seeds oblong, yellow, less than 1 mm long. Ecology: Fairly widespread weed of all disturbed areas below 4,500 ft (1372 m); flowers February-May. Distribution: Native to the Asia and the Mediterranean; now found throughout the world. In the US from CA, NV, AZ, UT, CO, NM, TX, the ...

ID ARALY_100_PE2 STANDARD; PRT; 100 AA. AC ARALY_100_PE2; DT 00-JAN-0000 (Rel. 1, Created) DT 00-JAN-0000 (Rel. 2, Last sequence update) DT 00-JAN-0000 (Rel. 3, Last annotation update) DE (ARALY_100.PE2). OS ARABIDOPSIS LYRATA. OC cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; OC Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliophyta; OC eudicotyledons; core eudicotyledons; rosids; eurosids II; Brassicales; OC Brassicaceae; Arabidopsis. OX NCBI_TaxID=59689; RN [0] RP -.; RG -.; RL -.; CC -!- SEQ. DATA ORIGIN: Translated from the HOGENOM CDS ARALY_100.PE2. CC Arabidopsis lyrata scaffold scaffold_133 JGI8X full sequence 1..18967 CC annotated by Ensembl Genomes CC -!- GENE_FAMILY: HBG000000000 [ FAMILY / ALN / TREE ] DR HOGENOM:Arabidopsis_lyrata;AL_SCAFFOLD_0133_2;AL_SCAFFOLD_0133_2;AL_SCAFFOLD_0133_2. DR HOGENOMDNA; ARALY_100.PE2; -. KW Al_scaffold_0133_21_AT2G39210.11; Al_scaffold_0133_21_AT2G39210.11. SQ SEQUENCE 100 AA; UNKNOWN MW; UNKNOWN CRC64; ...

ID ARALY_100_PE1 STANDARD; PRT; 80 AA. AC ARALY_100_PE1; DT 00-JAN-0000 (Rel. 1, Created) DT 00-JAN-0000 (Rel. 2, Last sequence update) DT 00-JAN-0000 (Rel. 3, Last annotation update) DE (ARALY_100.PE1). OS ARABIDOPSIS LYRATA. OC cellular organisms; Eukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; OC Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliophyta; OC eudicotyledons; core eudicotyledons; rosids; eurosids II; Brassicales; OC Brassicaceae; Arabidopsis. OX NCBI_TaxID=59689; RN [0] RP -.; RG -.; RL -.; CC -!- SEQ. DATA ORIGIN: Translated from the HOGENOM CDS ARALY_100.PE1. CC Arabidopsis lyrata scaffold scaffold_133 JGI8X full sequence 1..18967 CC annotated by Ensembl Genomes CC -!- GENE_FAMILY: HBG000000000 [ FAMILY / ALN / TREE ] DR HOGENOM:Arabidopsis_lyrata;SCAFFOLD_13300001.1;SCAFFOLD_13300001.1;SCAFFOLD_13300001.1. DR HOGENOMDNA; ARALY_100.PE1; -. KW scaffold_13300001.1_AT2G39210.11; scaffold_13300001.1_AT2G39210.11. SQ SEQUENCE 80 AA; UNKNOWN MW; UNKNOWN CRC64; ...

Botanical Name ; Raphanus sativus Family: Brassicaceae Genus: Raphanus Species: sativus Kingdom: Plantae Order: Brassicales Common Names: Daikon, Indian Radish

3. Traka MH. Chapter nine - Health benefits of glucosinolates. Advances in Botanical Research. 2016;80:247-279.. a study in which no experimental intervention or treatment is applied. Participants are simply observed over time.nal Studies case control…cohort studies prospective cohort studies. 24 case-control and 11 prospective cohort studies. 21. Sergentanis TN, Economopoulos KP. GSTT1 and GSTP1 polymorphisms and breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2010;121(1):195-202. (PubMed). 22. Bryan HK, Olayanju A, Goldring CE, Park BK. The Nrf2 cell defence pathway: Keap1-dependent and -independent mechanisms of regulation. Biochem Pharmacol. 2013;85(6):705-717. (PubMed). 34. Liu X, Lv K. Cruciferous vegetables intake is inversely associated with risk of breast cancer: a meta-analysis. Breast. 2013;22(3):309-313. (PubMed). 42. Hu J, Hu Y, Hu Y, Zheng S. Intake of cruciferous vegetables is associated with reduced risk of ovarian cancer: a meta-analysis. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. ...

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1b , Leaf-miner: Corridor-blotch mine, normally dorsal; usually whitish; in small leaves it lies characteristically in the centre of the leaf often touching the petiole; in larger leaves it lies to one side of the mid-rib. Frass deposited in green clumps near the leaf margin. Pupation usually external, sometimes in a separate pupation mine.. Oviposition whitin the leaf, at the lower surface. The first part of the mine is a long, sometimes very long, corridor, that mostly will be overrun by the later developments. Generally this corridor is directed, frequently guided by a thick vein, to the midrib. The next section of the mine is large, irregular blotch overlying the basal section of the midrib. Locally large chunks of midrib tissue are consumed. From this central blotch excursions are made into the leaf blade: generally upper-surface, less often lower-surface and locally full-depth. In plants with narrow leaves, like Diplotaxis, the mine may occupy the entire width of the leaf. Often several ...