What's the difference between nightshade and solanum?
Nightshade
Definition:
(n.) A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Further evidence showing that the fruit of the black nightshade contains acetylcholine was obtained by chromatographic separation of the aqueous extract.
(2) (black nightshade) has been established based upon the following pharmacological tests: a) isotonic contraction of the isolated toad rectus abdominis; b) negative chronotropic and inotropic action on the isolated toad heart; c) isotonic contraction of the isolated guinea pig's ileum; d) isotonic contraction of the rat's isolated jejunum; 3) decrease on the cat's arterial blood pressure; f) secretory effects on the rat's submaxillary gland.
(3) Winter stem fluid from the bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara L., also showed the recrystallization inhibition activity characteristic of the animal thermal hysteresis proteins (THPs), suggesting a possible function for the THPs in this freeze tolerant species.
(4) A case of serious atropine poisoning caused by consumption of the fruits of deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) which commenced with psychosis in a boy of nine years is described.
(5) The open reading frame and terminator region of a wound-inducible tomato Inhibitor I gene, regulated by the CaMV 35S promoter, was stably integrated into the genomes of nightshade (Solanum nigrum), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), and alfalfa (Medicago sativa), using an Agrobacterium-mediated transformation system.
(6) Inhibitor I was extracted from leaves of wounded transformed nightshade plants and was partially purified by affinity chromatography on a chymotrypsin-Sepharose column.
(7) Nutritionally complete diets containing sicklepod or black nightshade seed at 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32% were fed to groups of three to five male Sprague-Dawley rats in a series of short-term (8-9 days) toxicity studies.
(8) Transgenic nightshade plants were selected that expressed the tomato Inhibitor I protein in leaf tissue.
(9) Ripened nightshade berries (Solanum dulcamara) are among the most commonly reported plant ingestions in Minnesota.
(10) Black nightshade seed was relatively non-toxic compared with the sicklepod.
(11) Exposure to gerberas, freesias, chrysanthemums and to genera of the nightshade family (Solanaceae) such as paprikas, tomatoes, egg plants and potatoes may lead to allergy with raised IgE levels.
(12) The protein exhibited the same Mr of 8 kDa as the native tomato Inhibitor I and its N-terminal amino acid sequence was identical to that of the native tomato inhibitor I, indicating that the protein was properly processed in nightshade plants.
(13) Using electron microscopy techniques, the newly synthesized pre-pro-Inhibitor I protein was shown to be correctly processed and stored as a mature Inhibitor I protein within the central vacuoles of leaves of transgenic nightshade and alfalfa.
(14) A wound-inducible proteinase Inhibitor I gene from tomato containing 725 bp of the 5' region and 2.5 kbp of the 3' region was stably incorporated into the genome of black nightshade plants (Solanum nigrum) using an Agrobacterium Ti plasmid-derived vector.
(15) Among the naturally growing flowers in Germany, deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), jimson weed (thornapple, Datura stramonium) and black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) contain enough alkaloids to cause mydriasis by direct contact.
(16) (silverleaf nightshade), Solanum sarrachoides (S. villosum Lam.--hairy nightshade), Solanum dulcamara L. (European bittersweet nightshade) or Solanum melongena L. (eggplant).
(17) Pilocarpine pupil testing led to the correct diagnosis of pharmacologic pupillary dilation from an unexpected and unusual source of plant poisoning, Solanum dulcamara (blue nightshade).
(18) The principal adverse effects of black nightshade were decreased body-weight gain and feed consumption, which occurred during the first 3 days of the study in animals fed 32% seed.
(19) The results demonstrate that the gene contains elements that can be regulated in a wound-inducible, tissue-specific manner in nightshade plants.
Solanum
Definition:
(n.) A genus of plants comprehending the potato (S. tuberosum), the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade.
Example Sentences:
(1) A self-compatible (SC) mutation, identified in dihaploid lines of Solanum tuberosum, was investigated.
(2) Morphometric evaluation of undecalcified sections of caudal vertebrae revealed an increased amount of trabecular bone in both Solanum treated groups with no difference due to dose level.
(3) The structure of potato (Solanum tuberosum) lectin, which is a hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein, has been investigated by circular dichroism.
(4) mRNAs corresponding to the two potato cDNA clones also accumulate in Solanum chacoense and in tomato following elicitor treatment.
(5) Solanum tuberosum (Batatis) was the richest in riboflavin (0.3 mg%) and Pisum sativum (Busselah) in niacin (1.8 mg%).
(6) The profile of primary dioxygenation products of arachidonic acid catalyzed by lipoxygenase isolated from hairy root cultures of Solanum tuberosum treated with a fungal elicitor was compared to that obtained for the enzyme from potato tubers.
(7) Particular emphasis is placed on the mechanism of cold-induced sweetening in tubers of potato (Solanum tuberosum).
(8) We isolated eight avirulent mutants after screening 6,000 kanamycin-resistant transconjugants by inoculating eggplant (Solanum melongena L. cv.
(9) We have isolated and sequenced cDNAs for S2- and S3-alleles of the self-incompatibility locus (S-locus) in Solanum chacoense Bitt., a wild potato species displaying gametophytic self-incompatibility.
(10) The induction of congenital craniofacial malformations in hamsters by high oral doses of the four Solanum species that contained mainly solasodine glycosides--S. elaeagnifolium, S. dulcamara, S. sarrachoides and S. melongena was compared to inductions of malformations by Solanum tuberosum, that contained mainly solanidane glycosides.
(11) Overtly invasive follicular carcinoma showed focal reactivity with some lectins that were nonreactive with normal follicular thyroid cells (Solanum tuberosum and soybean in three of three cases; Ulex europaeus in two of three cases; and Dolichos biflorus, Laburnum alpinum, and peanut in one of three cases).
(12) Besides, to evaluate a different type of surface process, three vegetables were valued: Ipomaea batatus, Solanum tuberosum and Daucus carota, with an without glucose supplement.
(13) Specific reactions with the biotinylated lectins concanavalin agglutinin (Con A), Solanum tuberosum agglutinin (STA) and Limulus polyphemus agglutinin (LPA) indicate that the carbohydrate moieties contain N-acetylneuraminic acid, N-acetylglucosamine and mannosyl- or glucosyl-residues.
(14) A neurological disease of cattle (maldronksiekte), occurring in a localized area of the Northern Transvaal, was experimentally reproduced by feeding Solanum kwebense plants to cattle.
(15) An alternative purification of prosomes with Solanum tuberosum agglutinin bound to divinyl sulphone-activated agarose is discussed.
(16) Addition of a desalted aqueous extract made from dried leaves of Solanum glaucophyllum produced a marked stimulation of bone resorption in a culture system in vitro.
(17) The present study involves the measurement of potato (solanum) steroidal alkaloid concentrations in serum by radioimmunoassay.
(18) activity increased rapidly after a 3-hr lag period in potato tuber (Solanum tuberosum L. cv.
(19) A cream formulation containing glycoalkaloids purified from the plant species Solanum sodomaeum L. is effective in the treatment of the malignant human skin tumours; basal cell carcinomas (BCCs), squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) and the benign tumours; keratoses and keratoacanthomas.
(20) The significant risk factors found were use of Solanum nigrum as a food (relative risk, 3.6), smoking (relative risk, 2.6), and use of traditional medicines (relative risk, 2.1).