High impact information on Iridaceae

• Mapping of floral traits shows that an Iris-type flower is ancestral in Moraea [1].
• Radiation in the Cape flora and the phylogeny of peacock irises Moraea (Iridaceae) based on four plastid DNA regions [1].
• Cloning and characterization of a monocot mannose-binding lectin from Crocus vernus (family Iridaceae) [2].
• As the cloning and characterization of the spring crocus lectin demonstrate that the monocot mannose-binding lectins occur also within the family Iridaceae a refined model of the molecular evolution of this lectin family is proposed [2].
• Chemical and pharmacological investigations of constituents of Eleutherine bulbosa (Miller) Urb. (Iridaceae) [3].

Associations of Iridaceae with chemical compounds

• The minimal effective dose of activated charcoal in the treatment of sheep poisoned with the cardiac glycoside containing plant Moraea polystachya (Thunb) KER-GAWL [4].
• Eleutherinone, a novel fungitoxic naphthoquinone from Eleutherine bulbosa (Iridaceae) [5].
• Six out of 6 steers survived a lethal dose of Moraea polystachya (blue tulp) when treated with activated charcoal alone and 3 out of 4 wethers survived when treated with activated charcoal plus potassium chloride [6].
• Belamcanda chinensis (BC) belongs to the family of iridaceae and the isoflavone tectorigenin has been isolated from the rhizome of this plant [7].
• Two anaesthetized sheep were intoxicated with epoxyscillirosidin, the main cardio-active bufadienolide, extracted from Homeria pallida (Natal yellow tulp) [8].

Gene context of Iridaceae

• (Iridaceae) was found to inhibit the oxidation of L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA) catalyzed by mushroom tyrosinase with an ID(50) of 67 microgram/mL (0.23 mM) [9].

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