High impact information on Plant Components

• To identify novel plant components operating in pathogen-induced signaling cascades, we initiated a large-scale screen using Arabidopsis thaliana plants carrying the beta-glucuronidase reporter gene under control of the H(2)O(2)-responsive Ep5C promoter [1].
• However, the presence of a capsule of extracellular polysaccharide apparently prevented interactions between rhizobial cells and these plant components [2].
• Absorption enhancing factors are ascorbic acid and meat, fish and poultry; inhibiting factors are plant components in vegetables, tea and coffee (e.g., polyphenols, phytates), and calcium [3].
• Other aspects of diet are not emphasized at present, despite growing evidence that a number of plant components decrease serum cholesterol [4].
• Although these antioxidant micronutrients may be the primary protective components of vegetable-rich 'preventive' diets, the potentials of other plant components await exploration, eg carotenoids other than beta-carotene, bioflavonoids and oxygen-sensitive B-vitamins [5].

Associations of Plant Components with chemical compounds

• Interactions of naturally occurring food plant components with insecticides and pentobarbital in rats and mice [6].
• The data demonstrate the potential of green plant components to modify the genotoxic activity of HgCl2 when administered orally [7].
• Epidemics of neurotoxic disease in developing regions of the world are often associated with dietary dependence on plant components with inherent toxic potential or which have spoiled and become contaminated with mycotoxins [8].
• Concentrations of all metals studied were higher in underground plant structures than aerial, except cadmium whose levels were not significantly different [9].
• The use of ethylenediamine in softening hard plant structures for paraffin sectioning [10].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Plant Components

• A method was developed to prepare plant structures for confocal laser scanning microscopy by combining Feulgen staining with pararosaniline and embedding in LR White(TM) [11].

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