High impact information on Sorbus

• The joint screening of 31 individuals of the related Sorbus aria and of 163 hybrid individuals shows that hybridization occurs predominantly in one direction and is rarely followed by cytoplasmic introgression [1].
• Hypopigmented skin spots, resembling the mountain ash leaf, may represent the earliest sign in tuberous sclerosis [2].
• The relationship between percentage loss in hydraulic conductivity (PLC) and water potential (hydraulic vulnerability curve) of the two species differed in shape: a flat curve with nearly total loss of conductivity at -6 MPa was found for SORBUS: Sambucus showed a steep vulnerability curve with 90% loss conductivity at -2.2 MPa [3].
• Natural sources of xylitol include plums, strawberries, raspberries and rowan berries [4].
• We analysed salicyl alcohol and salicylaldehyde in the bark extracts and found the 2 chemicals in equal amounts, about 0.9 microg/mg in aspen bark and in lower concentrations in rowan and the willows [5].

Associations of Sorbus with chemical compounds

• Leaf samples from three broad-leaved species (Betula pubescens Ehrh., Salix caprea L. and Sorbus aucuparia L.) were collected and leaf injury and the plants overall vitality were evaluated systematically in areas with different distance and direction from the emission sources [6].
• CONCLUSION: Previous studies have shown a good qualitative, quantitative association between fatigue failure in Rowan Ash accelerated fatigue testers, and clinical experience in glutaraldehyde-treated bovine pericardial valves [7].
• Vascular relaxation by the methanol extract of Sorbus cortex via NO-cGMP pathway [8].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Sorbus

• Anti-atherogenic effects of the methanol extract of Sorbus cortex in atherogenic-diet rats [9].

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