Bioactivity grasses

Cummins I, Edwards R (2004) Purification and cloning of an esterase from the weed black-grass (Alopecurus myosuroides), which bioactivates aryloxyphenoxypropionate herbicides. Plant J 39 894-904... 

Gunatilaka AA. Natural products from plant-associated microorganisms distribution, structural diversity, bioactivity, and imph-cations of their occurrence. J. Nat. Prod. 2006 69 509-526. Porter JK. Ergot alkaloids and alkaloids from other endophytes, responsible for causing toxic syndrome in cattle after eating contaminated grass. Prikl. Biokhim. Mikrobiol. 1993 29 51-55. Porter JK. Analysis of endophyte toxins fescue and other grasses toxic to livestock. J. Anim. Sci. 1995 73 871-880. 

Yong J, Sacalis JN, Still CC. Bioactive flavonoids from endophyte-infected blue grass (Poa ampla). J Agric Food Chem 46 3785-3788, 1998. 

All the materials tested were effective with the exception of boronia (Figure 4). Eucalyptus induced a 93% mortality, while cypress gave 90%, camphor 83% (Figure 2[10]), spearmint 78%, white thyme 75%, pheasant grass 50%, sassafras 50%, anethole (Figure 2[11]) 35%, red thyme 34%, and aniseed 28% (P < 0.05). It is interesting to note the disparity between white thyme and red thyme which indicates that either there is a significant increase in one bioactive compound in one cultivar versus the other, or that a specific ratio of compounds in the mixture is more effective than another. 

Kloeppel, A., Grasse, W., Bruemmer, F, Morlock, G.E. (2008) HPTLC coupled with bioluminescence and mass spectrometry for bioactivity-based analysis of secondary metabolites in marine sponges. Journal of Planar Chromatography, 27,431-436. 

S., Grass, R.N., Zehnder, M., Imfeld, T. and Stark, W.J. (2007) Remineralization of human dentin using ultraflne bioactive... 

Schneider, O.D., Loher, S., Brunner, T.J., Uebersax, L., Simonet, M., Grass, R.N., Merkle, H.P., Stark, W.J., 2008. Cotton wool-like nanocomposite biomaterials prepared by electrospinning in vitro bioactivity and osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 84, 350-362. 

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