Data from four DNA regions (rbcL, matK, 26S rDNA, and ITS) as well as extant and fossil morphology were used to reconstruct the phylogeny and biogeographic history of an intercontinentally disjunct plant group, the cornelian cherries of Cornus (dogwoods). The study tests previous hypotheses on the relative roles of two Tertiary land bridges, the North Atlantic land bridge (NALB) and the Bering ...

Abstract Cornelian cherry ( Cornus mas ) appears in a list of fruit and nut species growing Europe considered neglected underused economically. Although C. has long-standing traditional medicinal use, only recent years interest products food made from cherries, said to have health-promoting effects, increased. This turn raises the demand for improved planting material. In Pielach Valley Region,...

fresh juices of colourful wild berries: cornelian cherry, blackthorn, white beam and elderberry are considered as valuable, highly nutritive beverages and characterized by the high level of vitamins and antioxidant capacity. the concentration process of these juices by membrane osmotic distillation was studied, where only water vapour is eliminated, while the heat sensitive, valuable compounds ...