*) CNR-IGV, Institute of Plant Genetics, Via Università 133, 80055 Portici,Italy **) Department of Soil, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Via Università 100, 80055 Portici, Italy ***) Department of Structural and Functional Biology, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Via Mezzocannone 8, 80134 Naples, Italy ****) ENEA, Casaccia Research Center, P.O. Box 2400...

background: the use of natural products as anticancer and antioxidant agents has a long history. several drugs currently used in chemotherapy were isolated from plant species. objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate cytotoxicity and antioxidant activity as well as phenol and flavonoid contents of five plant species of solanaceae family. methods: five plant species of solanaceae family ...

Cestrum lanatum Mart. & Gal. (Family: Solanaceae) is a species of the central American genus Cestrum (USDA-ARS-GRIN database, 1999a). The aerial parts of this plant were collected from Costa Rica and supplied by Biotics Limited, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. A voucher specimen (BT177) for this collection has been retained by the supplier. Solanum citrullifolium A. Braun, a plant from nort...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is a model plant of the Solanaceae family. Various biological aspects of tomato have been investigated with molecular biological approaches, and a significant amount of DNA and protein sequencing data on tomato has been accumulated. Recently, the number of tomato genome sequences in the International Nucleotide Sequence Databases has been rapidly increasing due to ...

calystegines were isolated from the root cultures of physalis divaricata, p. pubescens, p. philadelphia,and p. philadelphia (solanaceae). calystegines of p. divaricata were identified as calystegine a3, a5, b1 and b2, with concentrations of 6.99, 4.41, 8.52, and 14.7 ?g/g in fresh mass, respectively. root cultures of p.pubescens contain calystegine a3, b1 and b2, p. philadelphia only contains c...

Coeloneurum, Espadaea, Henoonia, and Goetzea are shrubs and trees that are endemic to the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico in the Greater Antilles. A phylogenetic analysis was conducted to elucidate the evolutionary relationships among them and with other major lineages of the Solanaceae. DNA sequences of the chloroplast genes ndhF, rbcL, and trnL-trnF intron and intergenic spacer w...

The Solanaceae, Rosaceae, and Scrophulariaceae families all possess an RNase-mediated self-incompatibility mechanism through which their pistils can recognize and reject self-pollen to prevent inbreeding. The highly polymorphic S-locus controls the self-incompatibility interaction, and the S-locus of the Solanaceae has been shown to be a multi-gene complex in excess of 1.3 Mb. To date, the func...

The presence of different glutamine synthetase isoenzymes in different Solanaceae plants and their relative antigenicities against antiglutamine synthetase from tomato leaf serum were studied. All the plants tested showed one glutamine synthetase isoenzyme except for Mandragora autumnalis, which showed two, after discontinuous polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and specific in situ assay. Antig...