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Advances in Mechanism Research on Polygonatum in Prevention and Treatment of Diabetes

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Diabetes mellitus is a fast-growing disease with a major influence on people’s quality of life. Oral hypoglycemic drugs and insulin are currently the main effective drugs in the treatment of diabetes, but chronic consumption of these drugs has certain ...
Shuang Liu, Qiao-Jun Jia, Yi-Qing Peng, Ting-Hui Feng, Shu-Ting Hu, Juan-e Dong, Zong-Suo Liang, Zong-Suo Liang   +7 more
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Complete plastome sequence of Dracaena cambodiana (Asparagaceae): a species considered “Vulnerable” in Southeast Asia

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2018
Dracaena cambodiana (Asparagaceae) is a treelike plant ranging from 3 to 10 m tall. It grows in low-elevation forests (0–300 m) having dry and sandy soils.
Zhi-Xin Zhu, Wei-Xue Mu, Jian-Hua Wang, Jin-Ran Zhang, Kun-Kun Zhao, Cynthia Ross Friedman, Hua-Feng Wang   +6 more
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Yuccalechins A–C from the Yucca schidigera Roezl ex Ortgies Bark: Elucidation of the Relative and Absolute Configurations of Three New Spirobiflavonoids and Their Cholinesterase Inhibitory Activities

Molecules, 2019
The ethyl acetate fraction of the methanolic extract of Yucca schidigera Roezl ex Ortgies bark exhibited moderate acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) inhibitory activity (IC50 47.44 and 47.40 µg mL−1, respectively ...
Łukasz Pecio, Mostafa Alilou, Solomiia Kozachok, Ilkay Erdogan Orhan, Gokcen Eren, Fatma Sezer Senol Deniz, Hermann Stuppner, Wiesław Oleszek   +7 more
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Complete plastid and 45S rDNA sequences allow authentication of Liriope platyphylla and Ophiopogon japonicus

Current Plant Biology, 2022
Liriope platyphylla F.T. Wang & Tang and Ophiopogon japonicus (Thunb.) Ker Gawl are morphologically similar perennial herbaceous plants belonging to the Asparagaceae family used as evergreen ornamental plants as well as for medicinal purposes ...
Yeonjeong Lee, Hyun-Seung Park, Jae-Hyeon Jeon, Jee Young Park, Seung Hyun Kim, Jungmoo Huh, Sunmin Woo, Do-Won Jeong, Tae-Jin Yang   +8 more
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An F-Actin Mega-Cable Is Associated With the Migration of the Sperm Nucleus During the Fertilization of the Polarity-Inverted Central Cell of Agave inaequidens

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Asparagaceae’s large embryo sacs display a central cell nucleus polarized toward the chalaza, which means the sperm nucleus that fuses with it during double fertilization migrates an atypical long distance before karyogamy.
Alejandra G. González-Gutiérrez, Antonia Gutiérrez-Mora, Jorge Verdín, Benjamín Rodríguez-Garay   +3 more
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Developmental Morphology and Anatomy Shed Light on Both Parallel and Convergent Evolution of the Umbellate Inflorescence in Monocots, Underlain by a New Variant of Metatopy

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Inflorescence structure is very diverse and homoplasious, yet the developmental basis of their homoplasy is poorly understood. To gain an understanding of the degree of homology that these diverse structures share, we characterize the developmental ...
Jesús Martínez-Gómez, Tara A. M. Atluri, Irving Jason Rose, Aaliyah J. Holliday, Christopher F. Strock, Jonathan P. Lynch, William B. Miller, Dennis Wm. Stevenson, Chelsea D. Specht   +8 more
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The complete chloroplast genome of Hosta plantaginea (Lam.) Aschers

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020
Hosta plantaginea is an important ornamental and horticultural plant endemic to China. In this study, we generated complete chloroplast genome of H. plantaginea using high-throughput sequencing. The complete chloroplast sequence is a circular molecule of
Jian Dou, Hongjiang Wang, Mimi Li, Shengnan Huang, Haiying Tong   +4 more
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Cytotoxic and Apoptosis-Inducing Activity of Plants from the Family Asparagaceae in Relation to Human Alveolar Adenocarcinoma Cells [PDF]

Учёные записки Казанского университета: Серия Естественные науки, 2016
Cancer is known as the second major mortality cause. The number of new cases is increasing every year. Thus, it is urgent for scientists to search for alternative drugs with selective antitumor action and minimal side effects. It is known that some plant
Y.N. Kamalova, V.V. Shtyreva, Essam Abdul-Hafeez, Omer H.M. Ibrahim, P.V. Zelenikhin, N.S. Karamova, O.N. Ilinskaya   +6 more
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The complete chloroplast genome of a Korean endemic ornamental plant Hosta yingeri S. B. Jones (Asparagaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2017
Hosta yingeri is a perennial herbal ornamental plant belonging to the Asparagaceae family and an endemic species distributed in islands of Korea. In this study, complete chloroplast genome sequence of H. yingeri was characterized through de novo assembly
Chae Eun Lim, Soonok Kim, Hyun Oh Lee, Se-A Ryu, Byoung-Yoon Lee   +4 more
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Chromosome numbers for the Italian flora: 3 [PDF]

Italian Botanist, 2017
In this contribution new chromosome data obtained from material collected in Italy are presented. It includes four chromosome counts for the following genera: Bellevalia (Asparagaceae), Genista (Fabaceae), Linaria (Plantaginaceae), and Teucrium ...
Lorenzo Peruzzi, Giovanni Astuti, Liliana Bernardo, Angelino Carta, Marco D'Antraccoli, Francesco Roma-Marzio, Monica Ruffini Castiglione   +6 more
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