Soil seedbanks are defined in composition and quantity by many environmental factors inherent to a specific area, they can be an indicator of the potential problems weeds crops. In Valencia (Spain), rice is cultivated with continuous flooding during growing season, after harvesting, paddy fields flooded again winter. This study investigates fields’ soil seedbank this Mediterranean area effect w...

Due to the potential hazard of diclofenac on aquatic organisms and lack higher-tier ecotoxicological studies, a long-term freshwater mesocosm experiment was set up study effects this substance primary producers consumers at environmentally realistic nominal concentrations 0.1, 1 10 µg/L (average effective 0.041, 0.44 3.82 µg/L). During six-month exposure period, biovolume two macrophyte species...

Polypeptide assemblies cross-linked by S-S bonds (molecular mass>200 kDa) and single polypeptides folded with internal S-S cross-links (<41 kDa) have been detected by SDS/PAGE in particulate membranes and soluble extracts of developing cotyledons of nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus L.). When first prepared from fruit homogenates, these polypeptides were found to bind reversibly to UDP-Gal (labelled...

Watercress (Nasturtium officinale) colour changes due to blanching by heat and a combined treatment of heat/ultrasound (thermosonication) were studied in the temperature range of 82.5 to 92.5 °C. The application of thermosonication was intended to enable less severe blanching treatments and, therefore, improve the quality of the blanched product. The thermosonication blanching processes promote...

ZIP (Zinc-regulated transporter, Iron-regulated transporter-like Protein, ZIP) plays an important role in uptake or transport Zn Fe plants. So studying ZIPs plant can help to elucidate the molecular mechanism for and transportation. Herein, we have cloned a novel transporter gene NoZIP3 from Nasturtium officinale root using rapid-amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) method, evaluated its function ...

Watercress (Nasturtium officinale R. Br.) is a highly nutritious leafy crop with rich health-related phytonutrient profile including secondary plant metabolites such as glucosinolates. This semi-aquatic well-suited for indoor hydroponic cultivation and has growing market its distinctive peppery taste health benefits. We describe trials in three contrasting environments report the changes to mor...