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In the News (Tue 21 May 13)

  
  Brassicales
Vaughan and Whitehouse (1971) suggest that Brassicaceae differ from Capparaceae (inc. Cleomaceae) in that the latter have a testa that is only two (not three) cell layers thick, a persistent tegmen (rare) and a thicker endosperm (1 cell layer thick).
Genera in Brassicaceae were in the past often based on fruit and embryo differences and their limits are often unsatisfactory, and there has been parallel or convergent evolution of just about all the morphological features used to distinguish genera (Koch 2003; Al-Shehbaz et al.
Brassicaceae have tryphine, in which some constituents of the disorganised tapetal cells are still visible, covering the pollen grains, not pollenkitt, as in other angiosperms (Pacini and Hesse 2005), although details of the distribution of this feature are unclear.
www.mobot.org /MOBOT/Research/APweb/orders/brassicalesweb.htm   (0 words)

  
 BRASSICACEAE - Definition
A genus of plants belonging to the mustard family Brassicaceae.
Additionally, the radish Raphanus sativus is a member of the Brassicaceae family.
The full taxonomic classification is kingdom Plantae, division Tracheophyta, subdivision Spermatophyta, class Angiospermae, subclass Dicotyledeonae, order Papaverales, family Brassicaceae.
www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/Brassicaceae   (0 words)

  
 From woad warriors to cancer-buster - health - 14 August 2006 - New Scientist
It is a highly reactive chemical and at least one of its by-products, indole-3-carbonyl, is a well known tumour-busting compound.
But the exact fate of GBS in the diet has been difficult to determine because such studies would require large samples of the pure compound and it is difficult and expensive to purify or synthesise.
Although woad is a Brassicaceae member and was known to contain GBS, it was not an obvious source of the chemical.
www.newscientist.com /article/dn9735-from-woad-warriors-to-cancerbuster.html   (0 words)

  
 Brassicaceae Page
The Texas flora includes 46 genera and 123 species and, in terms of species diveristy, this family ranks as number 6 in Texas.
The stamens are often tetradynamous and the fruit is a bilocular capsule that appears to be derived, like other floral whorls, from a four-parted ancestry that followed an evolutionary path similar to that depicted (redrawn from G.
Whatever the specific process, the resulting gynoecium of the Brassicaceae is bilocular with an unusal septum - the
www.csdl.tamu.edu /FLORA/Wilson/tfp/dil/brapage2.htm   (0 words)

  
 The Arabidopsis Genome Sequence as a Tool for Genome Analysis in Brassicaceae. A Comparison of the Arabidopsis and ...
Koch M, Haubold B, Mitchell-Olds T (2001) Molecular systematics of the Brassicaceae: evidence from coding plastidic matK and nuclear Chs sequences.
Schmidt R, Acarkan A, Boivin K, Clarenz O, Rossberg M (2003) The sequence of the Arabidopsis genome as a tool for comparative structural genomics in Brassicaceae.
Intrageneric phylogeny of Capsella (Brassicaceae) and the origin of the tetraploid C. bursa-pastoris based on chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequences
www.plantphysiol.org /cgi/content/full/135/2/735   (0 words)

  
 Phylogeny of Capparaceae and Brassicaceae based on chloroplast sequence data -- Hall et al. 89 (11): 1826 -- American ...
Phylogeny of Capparaceae and Brassicaceae based on chloroplast sequence data -- Hall et al.
Phylogeny of Capparaceae and Brassicaceae based on chloroplast sequence data
Capparaceae and Brassicaceae have long been known to be closely
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 Definition of brassicaceae - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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 Brassicaceae (Mustard) Family Part 3
Brassicaceae (Mustard family) members are easy to distinguish - with few exceptions, the flowers have 4 petals and 4 sepals; 6 stamens (4 long and 2 short); and 2 rows of seeds on a pistil that is partitioned lengthwise into 2 divisions.
Brassicaceae Family members found on Montara Mountain include:
It may have an animal carrier I'm not aware of, or a way of hitching a ride with humans.
plants.montara.com /ListPages/FamPages/Brassica3.html   (477 words)

  
  Brassicaceae (Cruciferae)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Even the name "Cruciferae" indicates its importance, for the International Code of Plant Nomenclature makes a rare exception in permitting the continued use of the well-known name for the family.
Brassicaceae is the name that fully complies with the Code.
The family members' flowers are in the form of a cross, with four petals, usually white, yellow, or lavender, and an equal number of sepals.
www.pmf.ukim.edu.mk /bbogdanov/glucosinolates/webB1.htm   (329 words)

  
  BRASSICACEAE
For accurate identification of members of the Brassicaceae, it is almost essential to have mature fruit.
These fruits are distinctive because the outer walls of the ovary usually fall off at maturity, leaving behind the internal wall, known as the replum.
Long after the Brassicaceae had been recognized as a distinct group, it was discovered that nearly all its members produce an unusual group of compounds, isothiocyanates.
herbarium.usu.edu /taxa/brassicaceae.htm   (511 words)

  
 Fuentes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The mustard family (Brassicaceae sensu stricto or Cruciferae) includes about 340 genera and ca 3,350 species of worldwide distribution.
Nevertheless, the intra-family classification has been a continued source of controversy, on of the most important reason of this disagreement is that such classifications were based on one or few morphological characters.
Indeed, molecular studies reveal that Brassicaceae is fraught with taxonomic problems related to an under-developed understanding of character evolution and generic delimitations.
www.umsl.edu /services/kellogg/people/fuentes.html   (288 words)

  
 BRASSICACEAE
For accurate identification of members of the Brassicaceae, it is almost essential to have mature fruit.
These fruits are distinctive because the outer walls of the ovary usually fall off at maturity, leaving behind the internal wall, known as the replum.
Long after the Brassicaceae had been recognized as a distinct group, it was discovered that nearly all its members produce an unusual group of compounds, isothiocyanates.
www.herbarium.usu.edu /taxa/brassicaceae.htm   (511 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Brassicaceae   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Family Brassicaceae (or Cruciferae), composed of 350 genera of mostly herbaceous plants with peppery-flavored leaves.
Floral Development in the Capparales: Lepidium virginicum L. (Brassicaceae) and Tropaeolum majus L. (Tropaeloaceae).
Influences on size at maturity on Draba verna L. (brassicaceae), in Granville, OH.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Brassicaceae   (637 words)

  
 Brooklyn Botantic Garden: Plant Records
Franzek, A. Molecular systematics of Cardamine and allied genera (Brassicaceae): ITS and non-coding chloroplast DNA Folia Geobot.
Molecular systematics, evolution, and population biology in the mustard family (Brassicaceae) Ann.
Meekins, J. F.; McCarthy, B. Effect of population density on the demography of an invasive plant ({Alliaria petiolata, Brassicaceae) population in a southeastern Ohio forest Amer.
www.bbg.org /cgi/biblio/refquery.cgi?Brassicaceae   (1671 words)

  
 Brassicaceae Information
Agricultural plants in the mustard family are also known as cole crops; cole comes from the Latin word caulis (stem), as does the German Kohl.
Other well known members of the Brassicaceae include rapeseed (canola and others), mustard, horseradish, wasabi and watercress.
The family was formerly named Cruciferae ("cross-bearing"), because the four petals of their flowers are reminiscent of crosses.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Brassicaceae   (372 words)

  
 Amazon.com: brassicaceae   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Responses of native and invasive Brassicaceae species to slug herbivory by H. Buschmann, P.J. Edwards, and H. Dietz
Mustard family (Brassicaceae): An entry from Thomson Gale's Gale Encyclopedia of Science, 3rd ed.
The effects of cryptogamic soil crust on the population dynamics of Arabis fecunda (Brassicaceae) by Peter Lesica (Unknown Binding - 1991)
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=brassicaceae&tag=lexico&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1   (380 words)

  
 Search Results for "Brassicaceae"
...A large family of herbs, the Cruciferae (Brassicaceae), characterized by pungent juice and four-petaled flowers arranged in a cross and including important vegetables...
Botany Any of various plants in the mustard family (Cruciferae or Brassicaceae), which includes the alyssum, candytuft, cabbage, radish,...
...is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Capparales, family Brassicaceae (Cruciferae)....
www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Brassicaceae   (124 words)

  
 Evolution of the trnF(GAA) Gene in Arabidopsis Relatives and the Brassicaceae Family: Monophyletic Origin and ...
Evolution of the trnF(GAA) Gene in Arabidopsis Relatives and the Brassicaceae Family: Monophyletic Origin and Subsequent Diversification of a Plastidic Pseudogene -- Koch et al.
Molecular systematics, phylobiogeography and evolution of the genus Cardaminopsis Hayek (Brassicaceae), the closest relatives of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.
Chloroplast DNA phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Lepidium (Brassicaceae).
mbe.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/22/4/1032   (5213 words)

  
 A REVISION OF THE GENUS LIGNARIELLA (BRASSICACEAE)
Although the fruiting pedicels in L. serpens and L. hobsonii are sometimes strongly recurved, it is the combination of long pedicels and gynophores that help in planting the one-seeded fruits at some distance from the mother plant.
We are grateful to the directors and curators of A, B, BM, E, HNWP, K, KATH, KUN, MO, PE, TI, and UPS for the loan of specimens and/or providing access to the collections in their institutions.
NAQSHI, A. On the Himalayan genus Lignariella (Brassicaceae).
flora.huh.harvard.edu /china/Harvard_Papers/ia_hp5-113-2000.htm   (4022 words)

  
 Vegetable Photos #1
In Japan, daikons are cooked in soups, grated and eaten with sashimi (raw fish), and pickled.
The green paste which is the essential condiment for sashimi comes from the fleshy rhizome of wasabi (Eutrema wasabi), another member of the mustard family (Brassicaceae).
Right: Peppergrass (Lepidium nitidum), a common annual of the mustard family (Brassicaceae) native to grasslands and dry brushy slopes throughout California.
waynesword.palomar.edu /ecoph11.htm   (1298 words)

  
 Russian WildNature. Cruciferae - Brassicaceae   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Besides, Cruciferae`s flower is not typical: the five-part structure of a flower is characteristic for the majority of plants, but Cruciferae have four petals crosswise.
Family Brassicaceae or Cruciferae includes about 400 genera (in Russia about 100) and more than 3000 species (in Russia about 350) of grassy plants from the temperate zone of the Old World, mainly.
Distinctive feature of this family is extremely uniform and (as is told above) not typical for other plants four-part structure of a flower.
rwn.by.ru /plants/Brassicaceae_e.html   (366 words)

  
 brassicaceae   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Flowers of the Brassicaceae are usually easy to recognize: 4 sepals and 4 petals (which form a cross, giving the family its alternative name, Cruciferae), usually 6 stamens (of which the outer 2 are shorter than the inner 4), and 2 fused carpels.
Leaf shape varies, but are often lyrate (pinnately lobed with the distal lobes the largest).
The Brassicaceae of western Washington are mostly cool season bloomers with many species behaving as winter or blooming very early in the spring.
www.ups.edu /faculty/kirkpatrick/fieldbotany/family_pages/Brassicaceae/brassicaceae.htm   (193 words)

  
 Evolution of Genome Size in Brassicaceae -- JOHNSTON et al. 95 (1): 229 -- Annals of Botany
Phylogenetic analysis of the evolution of genome size in representative members of Brassicaceae based on a single most-parsimonious ITS tree.
Thickness of the lines shown in the tree is used to illustrate hypothetical changes in genome size in the Brassicaceae family.
Inaba R, Nishio T. Phylogenetic analysis of Brassicaceae based on the nucleotide sequences of the S-locus related gene, SLR1.
aob.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/95/1/229   (3479 words)

  
 Brassicaceae Family - Photo Gallery
The Brassicaceae Family includes food staples such as mustard and cabbage along with a variety of native plants.
Wallflower (05/19/2006) (Brassicaceae Erysimum spp.) Wall Flowers near the Terraces in Mill Creek Canyon.
Draba cappadocica (03/20/2007) Draba cappadocica is one of the first flowers to bloom in the rock garden.
protophoto.com /subject.html?subject_id=511   (212 words)

  
 Botany 307F - Families of Vascular Plants - Brassicaceae
Syncarpous ovary with 2 locules separated by a thin replum connecting 2 parietal placentas, each with (1-) many ovules, developing into a dry-dehiscent fruit (siliqua if elongate, silicula if short), the valves falling to reveal the replum and attached seeds:
Ontario native genera of Brassicaceae (Morton and Venn 1990): Arabis, Armoracia, Braya, Cakile, Cardamine, Cochlearia, Descurainia, Draba, Erysimum, Lepidium, Rorippa, Subularia; cf.
Recent cladistic analyses of morphological and molecular data from temperate/tropical family pairs suggest that a monophyletic Brassicaceae should be circumscribed so as to include the predominantly woody Capparaceae (Judd, Sanders and Donoghue 1994) to which Cleome belongs.
www.botany.utoronto.ca /courses/BOT307/D_Families/307DBrassic.html   (207 words)

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