Mustard, Brassica juncea

Indian mustard (Brassica juncea Czern L.), tall fescue (Festuca arundinacae), birds foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), and kenaf (Hibiscus cannibinus) have been used to reduce soil Se levels near Los Banos, California. Total Se concentrations in soil depths from 0 to 60 cm were lower in all cropped plots than in the bare plots after four years (Banuelos, 2000). The efficiency of Se lost from the soil after four years for each of the four crop rotations was in the range of 17-60% (Banuelos, 2000). The cropped plots with only tall fescue had 25% lower soil Se concentrations after four... 

Ebbs S.D., Kochian L.V. Phytoextraction of zinc by oat (aAvena sativa), barley (Hordeum vulgare), and Indian mustard (Brassica juncea). Environ Sc Technol 1998 32 802-806. 

Se-enriched and normal garlic Se-enriched and normal onion Indian mustard (.Brassica juncea) ... 

Salido, A.L., Hasty, K.L., Lim, J.-M., Butcher, D.J. 2003. Phytoremediation of arsenic and lead in contaminated soil using Chinese brake ferns (Pteris vittata) and Indian mustard (Brassica juncea). International Journal of Phytoremediation, 5(2) 89-103. 

Gasic, K., Korban, S.S. (2007). Transgenic Indian mustard (Brassica juncea) plants expressing an Arabidopsis phytoche-latin synthase (AtPCSl) exhibit enhanced As and Cd tolerance. Plant Mol. Biol. 64 361-9. 

Lim, J. M., Salido, A. L., and Butcher, D. J. (2004). Phytoremediation of lead using Indian mustard (Brassica juncea) with EDTA and electrodics. Microchem. J. 76, 3-9. 

Asian mustards (Brassica juncea) such as Giant Red ... 

Asian mustard (Brassica juncea) Green-in-Snow ... 

Lim et al. (2004) optimized the time and electric field applied to each Indian mustard Brassica juncea) plant in a remediation experiment performed in 1.2-kg pots of lead- and arsenic-contaminated soil. The electric potential of 30-40V applied 1 h per day were the optimal conditions to reach maximum phytoextraction after 9-day treatment. In this case, the increase of EDTA availability by the electrical current caused a rapid toxicity response of plants that limited the remediation process. 

Seed germination of sensitive species of plants was reduced by 50% at soil atrazine concentrations between 0.02 and 0.11 mg/kg. Mustard Brassica juncea) was especially sensitive, and died shortly after germination. Soil atrazine residues of this magnitude were typical of those remaining at the beginning of a new... 

Katamoto, H., S. Nishiguchi, K. Harada, et al. 2001. Susp>ected Oriental mustard (Brassica juncea) intoxication in cattle. Vet. Rec. 149(7) 215-216. 

The frequency of genes for the absence of erucic acid in rape, turnip rape, and other closely related species appears to be very low. If seed oils low in erucic acid content were available within leaf mustard (Brassica juncea) this species, now grown for edible oil in India and China, could become an edible oil crop in other countries. Efforts to find genes for the absence of erucic acid in this species have been under way for a number of years in several countries, and individual plants from 8. juncea which produce seed oils essentially free from erucic acid have been isolated recently (Kirk and Oram, 1981). 

In temperate regions, oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) and turnip rape (Brassica campestris L.) predominate, while in the semitropics of Asia B. campestris and Indian mustard [Brassica juncea (L.) Czern.] are major vegetable oil sources. The English word rape, as it applies to the oilseed forms of B. campestris and B. napus, has arisen from the Latin word rapum, meaning turnip. The word mustard was derived from the European practice of mixing the sweet "must" of old wine with crushed seeds of black mustard [Brassica nigra (L.) Koch.] to form a hot paste, "hot must" or "mustum ardens", hence the modern term mustard (Hemingway, 1976). 

Ganzle, M.G., Engels, C., Schieber, A. European food research and technology, sinapic acid derivatives in defatted oriental mustard (Brassica juncea L.) seed meal extracts using UHPLC-DAD-ESI-MS n and identification of compounds with antibacterial activity. Eur Food Res Tech. Springer, pubUshed online (2012)... 

Derived from the seeds of white mustard (Leucosinapis alba, syn. Sinapis alba or Brassica hirta), brown and yellow mustard (Brassica juncea) and of black mustard (Brassica nigra). 

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