supported by the Basic Research Joint Special General Project of Yunnan Provincial Local Universities(part)(No:202301BA070001-029,202301BA070001-044);Yunnan Province High-level Scientific and Technological Talents and Innovation Team Selection Special Young and Middle-aged Academic and Technical Leaders Reserve Talent Project(No:202405AC350067).
Objective:To investigate the protective effects of Lepidium draba L.(L.draba)on cyclophosphamide(CP)-induced hepatotoxicity and nephrotoxicity in rats.Methods:A total of 36 rats were divided into six groups as follows...
the Department of Science and Technology for providing fellowships (IF120278)
Objective: Garden cress(Lepidium sativum L.) is an important herb in traditional medicine used to improve production of breast milk in women and semen in men. In the present research the authors evaluated its ability ...
Lepidium subcordatum Botsch. et Vved. (Brassicaceae) is a rare endemic species of relict mountains of the Kyzylkum desert. The plant is listed in the “Red Data Book of Uzbekistan”. It grows on stony and rocky slopes...
Objective: To test the effects of dietary supplementation of Lepidium sativum (LS) seed powder on growth performance and gonadotropins secretion in ovariectomized, estradiol-implanted rabbits. Methods: Ovariectomized,...
Objective: In order to establish a method for qualitative identification and semi-quantitative comparison of sucrose in Macas by infrared spectral analysis. Methods: Six Maca samples with three color types and from tw...
We thank Professors Dunyan Tan, Hongzhi Kong, Guangyuan Rao, and Ji Yang for their help in plant sample collection and species identification, and Yi Hu for RNA extraction of some taxa. We are also grateful to Ning Zhang, Liping Zeng, and Qi Li for their help in computational analysis. In addition, assistance from Yue Jin, Engao Zhu, Chenjiang You, and Bailong Zhang in laboratory work was of great importance and we wish to express our gratitude. This work was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 91531301) to H.M.
Angiosperm phylogeny has been investigated extensively using organellar sequences; recent efforts using nuclear genes have also been successful in reconstructing angiosperm phylogenies at family or deeper levels. Howe...
Maca (Lepidium meyenii Walp, 2n = 8x = 64), belonging to the Brassicaceae family, is an economic plant cultivated in the central Andes sierra in Peru (4000-4500 m). Considering that the rapid uplift of the central...