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Litchi

 
 
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Disease relevance of Litchi

 

High impact information on Litchi

  • Our goals were to determine crossreactivity between antibodies against lychee fruit and other plants and to characterize the allergen [1].
  • Effects of photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) on leaf gas exchange of lychee (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) were studied in field-grown "Kwai May Pink" and "Salathiel" orchard trees and young potted "Kwai May Pink" plants during summer in subtropical Queensland (27 degrees S) [2].
  • Furthermore, different polysaccharide fractions extracted and purified from litchi fruit pericarp tissues exhibited strong antioxidant activities [3].
  • Cross-reactivity of lychee to latex was shown by inhibition experiments using the UniCAP 100-system [4].
  • In the absence of LPS, the WEs from the 'heating foods', litchi, longan, or dried longan had a dose-dependent enhancing effect on PGE(2) production, with respective EC(50)s of 8.4, 16, and 11 mg/ml [5].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Litchi

 

Associations of Litchi with chemical compounds

  • When headspace SPME was used as a rapid analytical tool to detect the levels of selected aroma compounds deemed important to lychee aroma in Gewürztraminer-type wines, cis-rose oxide, linalool, and geraniol were found to be at relatively higher levels in Gewürztraminers [6].
  • Foods traditionally regarded as 'heating' (litchi, longan, and dried longan) or 'cooling' (chrysanthemum flower, bitter gourd, and lotus seed plumule) were extracted sequentially with water and ethyl acetate [5].
  • However, on the basis of calculated odor activity values (OAVs), cis-rose oxide, beta-damascenone, linalool, furaneol, ethyl isobutyrate, (E)-2-nonenal, ethyl isohexanoate, geraniol, and delta-decalactone were determined to be the main contributors of canned lychee aroma [6].
 

Gene context of Litchi

  • CONCLUSION: Lychee fruit contains a significant amount of profilin [1].
  • We determined whether immersion in 49 degrees C water for 20 min, a quarantine treatment developed for disinfestation of fruit flies in lychee, Litchi chinensis Sonn., and longan, Dimocarpus longan (Lourd.) Steud., exported from Hawaii, would also disinfest fruit of two species of Cryptophlebia [7].

References

  1. Anaphylactic reaction to lychee fruit: evidence for sensitization to profilin. Fäh, J., Wüthrich, B., Vieths, S. Clin. Exp. Allergy (1995) [Pubmed]
  2. Effects of light availability on leaf gas exchange and expansion in lychee (Litchi chinensis). Hieke, S., Menzel, C.M., Lüdders, P. Tree Physiol. (2002) [Pubmed]
  3. Identification of polysaccharides from pericarp tissues of litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) fruit in relation to their antioxidant activities. Yang, B., Wang, J., Zhao, M., Liu, Y., Wang, W., Jiang, Y. Carbohydr. Res. (2006) [Pubmed]
  4. Anaphylactic reaction to lychee in a 12-year-old girl: cross-reactivity to latex? Niggemann, B., Reibel, S., Hipler, C., Wahn, U. Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. (2002) [Pubmed]
  5. Differential effects of foods traditionally regarded as 'heating' and 'cooling' on prostaglandin E(2) production by a macrophage cell line. Huang, C.J., Wu, M.C. J. Biomed. Sci. (2002) [Pubmed]
  6. Similarities in the aroma chemistry of Gewürztraminer variety wines and lychee (Litchi chinesis sonn.) fruit. Ong, P.K., Acree, T.E. J. Agric. Food Chem. (1999) [Pubmed]
  7. Hot water immersion to ensure quarantine security for Cryptophlebia spp. (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in lychee and longan exported from Hawaii. Follett, P.A., Sanxter, S.S. J. Econ. Entomol. (2001) [Pubmed]
 
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