Chives Chinese

Ornamental cabbage and kale Rosette bok choy Chinese (garlic) chives Salad burnet... 

Lageneria siceraria) by mix-cropping with welsh onion or Chinese chive inoculated with Pseudomonas gladioli M-2196 2 (field test)... 

C42H83N0 698.121 Constit. of the seeds of Allium tuberosum (Chinese chives). Amorpth. powder. 

Manabe, T., Jasumi, A., Sugiyama, M. et al (1998) Alliina.se [S-alk(en)yl-L-cysteine sulphoxide lyase] from Allium tuberosum (Chinese chive) - purification, localization, cDNA cloning and heterologous functional expression. Eur. J. Biochem., 257,21—30. 

The scientific name of Chinese chives is Allium tuberosum Rottl. (Liliaceae). It is known as Jiucai in China and Nira in Japan. It is a perennial plant and both the leaves and the inflorescences are edible. It has also been used as an herbal medicine for many diseases. According to the dictionary of Chinese medicines, the leaves have been used for the treatment of abdominal pain, diarrhea, hematemesis, snakebite and asthma while the seeds are used as a tonic and aphrodisiac. In the present study, 39 compounds were isolated and identified from the ethanol extract of the seeds of Allium tuberosum. Among them, 23 are new compounds and include spirostanol saponins, furostanol saponins, cholesterol saponins and alkaloids. Their structures were identified by a combination of ESIMS, ID, and 2D-NMR (COSY, TOCSY, ROSEY, HMQC, and HMBC). The antitumor activities of some of these compounds will be discussed. 

Brewster, J.L. Rabinowitch, H.D. Onions and Allied crops Chinese chives Allium tuberosum rottl. Saito, S. CRC Press, Inc. Boca Raton, Florida, 1990 220. 

E. Block, S. Naganathan, D. Putman, and S. H. Zhao, Allium chemistry HPLC analysis of thiosulfinates from onion, garlic, wild garlic (Ramsoms), leek, scallion, shallot, elephant (great-headed) garlic, chive, and Chinese chive, J. Agric. Food Chem. 40 2418 (1992). 

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