Major chloroplast pigments in five leafy vegetables (chicory-Cichorium intybus, cv. 'Anivip' and cv. 'Monivip', dandelion-Taraxacum officinale, garden rocket-Eruca sativa and wild rocket-Diplotaxis tenuifolia), commonly consumed in Mediterranean countries, have been separated by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) on a reversed-phase column. Three classes of pigments were identified a...

The current study was conducted at University of Kufa, Faculty Science, Biology Department for molecular identification four Eruca sativa L. cultivars (1-Turish 2-Syrian 3-Turkish 4-Eygyptian) using eleven Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA. Results indicate primers OPA-04, OPA-10, OPA-02, OPW-04, OPC-09,v and OPD-13 success in giving all a unique fingerprint .Highest number main bands , polymorp...

Hypergravity is able to stimulate at a cellular level both the lignin formation and the peroxidase enzyme action in plants. Centrifuges have proven to be one of the most important tools for researchers for simulating such conditions. This paper presents a new design for a centrifuge simulating hypergravity used for plant experiments. It represents a more robust and completely redesigned equipme...

Variation in somatic and gametic chromosome numbers in Ribes nipuw (Vaarama 1949) and Eruca sativa (Rajan et al., 1950) has been attributed to the formation of accessory spindle and subsequent "elimination of clzrolnosoines e n bloc". In sugarcane, Parthasarathy (1951)~ after exa~nining the slides of megasporogenesis in Co. 421 prepared by Subrainaniam (1946), concluded that the mechanism of el...