Brassicaceae plants

It is impossible to reveal the botanical species from which the seed oil used in the examined lamps was actually produced, e.g. to say whether the oil came from radish as reported by Pliny or from another Brassicaceae plant such as rapeseed. However, the detection of the characteristic markers in lamps from Antinoe, one of the main urban centres of Roman Egypt, represents a chemical confirmation of the widespread use of cmciferous oil at that time, and is consistent with ancient documents [61,62]. This identification is... 

RASK, L., ANDREASSON, E., EKBOM, B ERIKSSON, S., PONTOPPIDAN, B., MEIJER, J., Myrosinase gene family evolution and herbivore defense in Brassicaceae, Plant Mol. Biol., 2000,42, 93-113. 

Lysak MA Lexer C (2006) Towards the era of comparative evolutionary genomics in Brassicaceae. Plant Syst Evol 259 175-198... 

Thangstad, O.P., Winge, R, Husebye, H. and Bones, A. (1993) The thioglucoside glucohydrolase (myrosinase) gene family in Brassicaceae. Plant Mol Biol, 23, 511-24. 

Arabidopsis thaliana Thale cress Brassicaceae Plant Encyclopedia (2012)... 

Wright, T. and Schlothauer, R.C. 2012. Cancer chemoprotective product comprising glucora-phanin and/or glucoraphanen compound and myrosinase enzyme from brassicaceae plant... 

Rask L, Andr sson E, Ekbom B, Eriksson S, Pontoppidan B, Meijer J. 2000. Myrosinase Gene Family Evolution and Herbivore Defense in Brassicaceae. Plant Molecular Biology 42 93-114. 

Martin, S.L., Sauder, C.A., James, T., Cheung, K.W., Razeq, F.M., Kron, P., Hall, L., 2015. Sexual hubridization between Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik (female) and Camelina sative (L.) Crantz (male) (Brassicaceae). Plant Breed. 134, 212-220. 

In some cases, the anionic POs adsorbed on chitin have similar antigenic determinants, but the plants belonging to different families - and even members of the same family - could have polysaccharide-specific POs with different structures. Thus, the majority of investigated species had anionic chitin-specific peroxidises, and these isoforms from potato Solcmaceae) and horseradish Brassicaceae) formed lines of precipitation with antibodies to wheat chitin-bound PO but not to anionic isoPO (Maksimov et al., 2000). However, protein extracts from several plants of Brassicaceae, Cucurhitaceae and Fahaceae formed precipitate with both the chitin-specific and anionic PO of wheat (Fig. 3). It was foimd that the greatest homology showed in plants and formed precipitation lines with the anionic PO of wheat (Tab. 2). 

Agrawal A (2000), Benefits and costs of induced plant defenses for Lepidium virginicum (Brassicaceae) , Ecology, 87, 804-813. 

Sniezko R, Sadaj A. Pattern of pollen tube growth in the Capsel la bursa pastiris and Sisymbrium loeselii (Brassicaceae). VIII Conference of Plant Embryologists, 16-18 September, Gdansk, Poland, 1997. 

Sleugh B, Moore KJ, George JR, Brummer EC (2000) Binary legume-grass mixtures improve forage yield, quality, and seasonal distribution. Agron J 92 24-29 Smolinska U, Morra MJ, Knudsen GR, James RL (2003) Isothiocyanates produced by Brassicaceae species as inhibitors of Fusarium oxysporum. Plant Dis 87 407-412 Soon YK, Harker KN, Clayton GW (2004) Plant competition effects on the nitrogen economy of field pea and the subsequent crop. Soil Sci Soc Am J 68 552-557... 

Flavone synthase (FNS EC 1.14.11.22) introduces a double bond between C2 and C3 of a flavanone to produce the corresponding flavone. This activity was initially identified in parsley cell suspension cultures and subsequently shown to be encoded by a 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase [67, 78, 79], This enzyme, now known as FNS-I, appears to have very limited distribution. To date, it has only been identified in the Apiaceae family (Umbellifers). The more widely occurring FNS-II (CYP93B) was initially identified from snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) flowers [80] and was subsequently shown to be a P450 enzyme. FNS-I, FNS-II, and the various roles flavones play in plant species have recently been reviewed by Martens and Mithofer [81], Subsequent to this review, Yu et al. [82] demonstrated that the characteristic lack of natural accumulation of flavones in Brassicaceae could not be overcome in A. thaliana even by overexpression of recombinant parsley FNS-I. 

Chimeric enzymes constructed fi"om two different angiosperms (Panax ginseng, Araliaceae, and Arabidopsis thaliana, Brassicaceae) yielded mixtures of triterpenoids, p-amirin and lupeol, at a composition depending on the particular chimera methyl scrambling was observed for lupeol only (Kushiro 1999). A few differences in the amino acids at the active site are responsible for these effects. This implies that the high variety of plant triterpenoids owes more to chimeric enzymes than product-specific triterpene synthases. It was proposed that these chimeric enzymes act as multifunctional triterpene synthases (Kushiro 1999). 

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