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In the News (Sat 11 Oct 08)

  
  Brassica: Science
He is also the founder of The Brassica Chemoprotection Laboratory, which is dedicated to studying edible plants that induce protective enzyme activity in the body and may help to prevent cancer development.
Researchers at Brassica Protection Products are now investigating specific phytochemicals found in fruits and vegetables, that may serve as weapons against cancer and other diseases.
The Brassica Chemoprotection Laboratory is the first laboratory of its kind designed exclusively for the study of the chemoprotective properties of plants.
www.brassica.com /sci/sci.htm   (1400 words)

  
 Brassica Tea - Home
Analyses in the Brassica Chemoprotection Laboratory show that BroccoSprouts contain 1.35 micrograms of Vitamin K per gram of fresh sprouts.
The long-lasting activity of SGS was discovered by scientists at Johns Hopkins University Medical School while studying the health benefits of a diet rich in fruits and vegetables.
Only Brassica teas are patented and licensed by Johns Hopkins University under US patents 5,725,895; 5,968,505; 5,968,567, 6,177,122 and 6,242,018.
www.brassicatea.com   (454 words)

  
  PLANTS Profile for Brassica oleracea (cabbage) | USDA PLANTS
Brassica oleracea L. View 107 genera in Brassicaceae, 19 species in Brassica or click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles.
Brassica oleracea L. The related entity italicized and indented above is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state.
Brassica oleracea L. This plant is introduced to the United States from another country or countries.
plants.usda.gov /java/profile?symbol=BROL   (309 words)

  
  Brassica Crops
Brassicas have also been used by farmers to renovate run-down or sod-bound pastures and hayfields where conventional tillage is impractical because of rock and stone.
Brassicas are high in dry matter digestibility at 85 to 95% which contrasts with good alfalfa, at 70%.
Brassicas retain their nutritive value well into freezing temperatures and can be expected to be grazed in most years as late as the end of December, or even longer in coastal regions of Massachusetts.
www.umass.edu /cdl/publications/Brassica.htm   (798 words)

  
 Brassica
Brassicas are high quality forage if harvested before heading.
Brassicas require good soil drainage and a soil pH should be in the range of 5.3-6.8.
The main disorders are bloat, atypical pneumonia, nitrate poisoning, hemolytic anemia (mainly with kale), hypothydroidism, and polioencephalomalcia.
www.uwex.edu /ces/forage/pubs/brassica.html   (838 words)

  
 BRASSICA
Brassica is a genus of plants that includes mustard, cabbage, collards, bok choy, kale, cauliflower, broccoli, and turnip.
This brassica is completely dependent on continuous cool light, or it will fail to grow at all.
Brassica needs light that is strong in the blue (cold) wavelengths of light, rather than the red (warm) wavelengths.
www.lhs.berkeley.edu /foss/fossweb/teachers/materials/plantanimal/brassica.html   (714 words)

  
 Brassica Breeding and Research - Areas of Interest
Brassica is a genus within the Brassicaceae (Cruciferae), commonly known as the mustard family.
Brassica napus, is thought to exist primarily through a natural cross between close relatives, the parents, B. oleracea (Cabbage, Kale, Cauliflower, Broccoli) X B.
Brassica juncea: The center of origin is believed to be in Central Asia-Himalayas, with migration to secondary centers in India, China and the Caucasus (mountainous region of south-central Russia).
www.ag.uidaho.edu /brassica/area_of_interest.htm   (1197 words)

  
 Brassica Sprout Central
Brassica is the Latin name for the plant family which includes Broccoli, Cabbage, Mustard, Radish and many other well known vegetables.
Brassicas are very diverse in flavor and in the type of plants they produce.
Also known as Pepper Grass, this spicy Brassica is, in flavor, something like Watercress and is a very fast grower which doesn't even need (and should not have) soaking.
www.sproutpeople.com /seed/brassicas.html   (1730 words)

  
 SJB Brassica
In brassica crops, the most well known and obvious calcium deficiency symptom is hollow stem.
While hollow stem is usually associated with high plant nitrogen levels, it is the reduction in calcium, boron and potassium uptake induced by high nitrogen levels that leads to cell breakdown.
Brassica crops tend to be more prone to molybdenum deficiency when supplied nitrate nitrogen as their molybdenum requirements are higher.
www.sjbagnutri.com.au /crops/brassica.htm   (526 words)

  
 Plant Genetic Resources : Brassica Production   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Brassica genus consists of many species including napus (rutabaga and rape), oleracea (broccoli, cabbage, kale, etc.), and rapa (turnip and Chinese cabbage) to name a few.
Most brassicas are biennials (taking 2 seasons to produce seed), and require a cold treatment (vernalization) in order to flower.
Brassica pods need to be threshed first (we use a belt thresher but this can be done by hand threshing) and then the smaller chaff can be separated by using screens or an air column or simply by general winnowing.
www.ars.usda.gov /Aboutus/docs.htm?docid=6460&pf=1&cg_id=0   (274 words)

  
 Brassica Main
Forage brassica crops such as turnip, swede, rape, and kale can be spring-seeded to supplement the perennial cool-season pastures in August and September or summer-seeded to extend the grazing season in November and December.
Brassicas are annual crops which are highly productive and digestible and can be grazed 80 to 150 days after seeding, depending on the species.
When preparing a tilled seedbed for brassica planting, plow the ground several weeks before planting to allow weed seeds to germinate before secondary tillage is completed to form a firm and fine seedbed that is free of weeds.
www.farminfo.org /forage/brassica-m.htm   (2951 words)

  
 Brassica oleracea Genome Project
One part of the project, in collaboration with the Cold Spring Harbor group, is to perform whole genome shotgun sequencing with a goal of reaching 0.5 - 1x coverage of the Brassica genome.
In parallel we are fully sequencing six Brassica BAC contigs identified by O'Neill and Bancroft (The Plant Journal 23: 233, 2000) as being homeologous to a region of the Arabidopsis genome that is duplicated between chromosomes 4 and 5.
This will permit an in-depth comparison of homeologous regions both within and between Brassica and Arabidopsis and provide a more rigorous basis for interpreting the alignments between the Brassica shotgun sequences and Arabidopsis genomic DNA.
www.tigr.org /tdb/e2k1/bog1   (263 words)

  
 Brassica seed from Outsidepride.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brassica is an herbaceous, non-grasslike plant which can be grazed.
The upright, many branched brassica plants have rutabaga-like leaves that are 4-12 inches long, slick, and generally lobed.
Forage brassica produces a taproot that, in contrast to turnips, cannot be harvested by grazing animals.
www.outsidepride.com /store/catalog/Brassica-Seed-p-16521.html   (275 words)

  
 Brassica oleracea (Cabbage, Brussels Sprouts, Broccoli, Kohlrabi, Cauliflower, Kale)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Wild Brassica oleracea is indigenous to the Atlantic seaboard of Europe (e.g.
It is thought that one of the reasons it has been possible for people to produce so many vegetables from this one species is because it is geographically diverse so that there is a great genetic diversity from which one can draw favourable attributes through selective breeding.
Brassicas contain substances called goitrins which can interfere with the body’s uptake of iodine and encourage goiter (enlargement of the thyroid) but this is only a problem in people who have a persistent iodine deficiency.
www.museums.org.za /bio/plants/brassicaceae/brassica_oleracea.htm   (417 words)

  
 Brassica juncea can take the heat | Pioneer Hi-Bred Limited
Brassica juncea promises to provide an indispensable cropping option for farmers in the hottest and driest regions of the southern Prairies.
Brassica juncea is poised to boost canola production to upwards of 25 per cent of the region’s acreage and is also well adapted for North and South Dakota and into Nebraska.
Brassica juncea is one of the species grown for oriental or brown mustard production in Western Canada.
www.pioneer.com /products/canada/canola_center/brassica.htm   (887 words)

  
 Brassica Genome Gateway
Physical maps are being constructed for the Brassica A genome in Korea and for both the A and C genomes in the UK.
The international Brassica research community is working together to establish communal genomic resources; also at brassica.info.
The steering group recently agreed that these goals should include the genetic anchoring of the BAC-based physical maps being constructed for Brassica genomes, and that the 500Mb Brassica A genome should be sequenced by an international consortium, with a target completion date of the end of 2007.
brassica.bbsrc.ac.uk /welcome.htm   (502 words)

  
 Brassica Teas
The folks at Brassica Tea believe that a dietary approach is the key to a healthy life, and they have now added SGS to high quality teas so that you can get the benefits of both in one delicious cup of tea.
Brassica Teas are the only teas with SGS available, and are patented and licensed by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Brassica Teas is donated to the Brassica Foundation for research on the prevention of cancer through diet and nutrition.
www.feelgoodproducts.com /tea.html   (1263 words)

  
 BroccoSprouts: The Brassica Sprout Safety Program
Brassica licenses only a limited number of growers across the country that are capable and committed to stringent food safety standards.
Brassica has taken a proactive approach to working with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to develop the procedures for safe sprouting and are continuously searching for improvements.
The Brassica Facility Compliance and Pathogen Reduction and HACCP Program: Brassica is the leader in the sprouting industry for food safety, and these programs are the most stringent in the industry which means that only a small handful of growers are capable of meeting the requirements for membership in the Brassica program.
www.broccosprouts.com /sprouts/spsafetyprog.htm   (576 words)

  
 www.brassica.info
As part of the Brassica GeneFlow Consortium project funded by the BBSRC and NERC under the 'Gene Flow in Plants and Microorganisms' initiative, primer and associated information was originally collated by Charlotte Allender for 618 Brassica microsatellites (including those developed and tested in Arabidopsis) currently in the public domain.
The purpose of this web page is to provide a summary of available information for all known Brassica microsatellites, and to provide a means for information on Brassica microsatellites to be exchanged between researchers.
This ranges from ascertaining that reproducible fragments are amplified using the PCR primers, testing the primers in single or multiple Brassica species to determine the number and sizes of the fragments produced and finally locating the position(s) of the microsatellite on a genetic map.
www.brassica.info /ssr/SSRinfo.htm   (1633 words)

  
 ECP/GR - Vegetables, MAP Network: Brassica Working Group
The last meeting (Fifth meeting) of the Brassica Working Group was held jointly with the third meeting of the EU funded project GEN RES 109-112 in Vila Real, Portugal, in February 2002.
The management of the European Database for Brassica (Bras-EDB) was transferred in 1991 to the Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands.
The GENRES CT99 109-112 project “Brassica Collections for Broadening Agricultural Use, including Characterizing and Utilising genetic variation in Brassica carinata for its exploitation as an oilseed crop” was carried out from 2000 to 2003, under the EC regulation 1467/94.
www.ecpgr.cgiar.org /Workgroups/brassica/brassica.htm   (1075 words)

  
 CAN-TILL Projects   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brassica projects that we are currently working on are part of a Plant Abiotic Stress initiative funded by Genome Prairie.
With this endeavour we are identifying mutations that are thought to play a role in plant response to abiotic stresses that particularly affect crop yield in Canada.
Phase one of this project involved TILLING in Arabidopsis homologues of Brassica genes that were thought to be important in abiotic stress responses in these crop species.
www.botany.ubc.ca /can-till/Projects.html   (798 words)

  
 Brassica’s Pest Control Role in Apple Orchards Clarified   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Biofumigation occurs when cover crops of mustard, canola, or other Brassica species decompose and release various chemical byproducts, particularly isothiocyanates, which are toxic to certain pathogens, parasitic nematodes, and insects.
Indeed, in their studies, the scientists had to combine the amendment with postplanting applications of the fungicide mefenoxam—a real-world reminder that Brassica’s pest control abilities aren’t so easily defined.
"Brassica's Pest Control Role in Apple Orchards Clarified" was published in the April 2006 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.
www.ars.usda.gov /is/AR/archive/apr06/apple0406.htm   (606 words)

  
 Brassica Tea - Session Cookies
Over time, we found that this key protective compound in broccoli is 20 times more concentrated in young three-day-old broccoli sprouts than it is in more mature broccoli plants -- and that we could extract it from the seed.
Proceeds from the products help support the Brassica Chemoprotection Foundation, designed exclusively to support further such studies of the cancer-fighting properties of plants.
Information on this website is not a substitute for the advice of a qualified health professional and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
www.brassicatea.com /?option=com_content&task=view&id=49   (303 words)

  
 Wisconsin rapid cycling Brassica oleracea mutagenesis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Plants are a cost effective, easy and exciting way to bring genetics and developmental biology into the classroom, and to provide students a hands-on opportunity to learn these areas.
Brassica oleracea is a species that comes in many forms.
In order to create plants that are interesting for students to study, eight thousand of these fast-growing Brassica oleracea plants were mutagenized with EMS, a chemical that causes base changes in the plant's DNA.
www.biochem.wisc.edu /brassicaclassroomgenetics   (196 words)

  
 Brassica Breeding and Research - Canola, Rapeseed, Mustard and Biodiesel
The overall goal of our breeding program is to develop genetically superior Brassica oilseed and condiment mustard cultivars (Brassica napus, B. juncea, Sinapis alba, and others) suitable for a wide range of environments throughout Idaho, the Pacific Northwest, and other regions in the United States.
Develop oilseed Brassica cultivars that would be suitable for industrial processing, including high quality biodiesel.
Broaden genetic base and introgress insect and disease resistance and other desirable traits into Brassica crops using interspecific and intraspecific hybridization.
www.ag.uidaho.edu /brassica   (186 words)

  
 Brassica Red Bush Tea by Brassica, with SGS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brassica Red Bush Tea with SGS gives you the health of South African rooibos tea PLUS the antioxidant power of SGS, The Next Generation Antioxidant.
SGS stands for sulforaphane glucosinolate, which is the naturally occurring antioxidant compound found in broccoli and broccoli sprouts that gives them their excellent antioxidant properties.
SGS was identified by scientists at Johns Hopkins Medical School and is believed to be the reason why people who eat large quantities of broccoli and other cruciferous (Brassica) vegetables have a lower incidence of some types of cancer.
www.taoofherbs.com /products/3027/Brassica/BrassicaRedBushTea.htm   (365 words)

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