ISHS Acta Horticultutae 650

Conveners / Editors : J. A. Fernandez, F. Abdullaev

Publication date : 31 May 2004

ISBN : 9066056770

ISSN : 0567-7572

Number of articles : 60

Place : Albacete, Spain 

BIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION DU SAFRAN

FORMATION DE LA FLEUR RÔLE DE LA TEMPÉRATURE

DÉVELOPPEMENT ET CONTRACTION DES RACINES CONTRACTILES

ALLONGEMENT DE LA DURÉE DE LA RÉCOLTE

DOCUMENTS ORIGINAUX EN ANGLAIS

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS :

FOREWORD AND PREFACE (J.-A. Fernández, F. Abdullaev, ISHS Board or Directors)

1. SAFFRON REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY (M. Grilli Caiola)

2. FLOWER FORMATION IN THE SAFFRON CROCUS (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) THE ROLE OF TEMPERATURE (R.V. Molina, A. García-Luis, V. Coll, C. Ferrer, M. Valero, Y. Navarro, J.L. Guardiola)

3. THE MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY OF AMYLOPLAST DISTRIBUTION IN CROCUS SATIVUS L. FIBROUS ROOTS (B. Behboodi, L. Samadi)

4. DEVELOPMENT AND CONTRACTION OF CONTRACTILE ROOTS IN CROCUS SATIVUS (M. Khalesi, B. Behboodi, Ebrahimzadeh)

5. COMPARATIVE MORPHOANATOMICAL STUDY OF THREE SPECIES PERTAINING TO THE CROCUS GENUS: C. NEVADENSIS, C. NUDIFLORUS AND C. SATIVUS DIFFERENTIATING CHARACTERISTICS (L. Pulido, S. Gattuso, M. Gattuso)

6. CROCUS CARTWRIGHTIANUS ON THE ATTICA PENINSULA (N. Jacobsen, M. Ørgaard)

7. BIOLOGY OF CROCUS OLIVIERI SUBSP. OLIVIERI (H. Vurdu, K. Güney, F.F. Çiçek)

8. MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL APPROACH OF THE SYSTEMATICS OF CROCUS SATIVUS L. AND ITS ALLIES (A.A. Zubor, G. Surányi, Z. Győri, G. Borbély, J. Prokisch)

9. DEVELOPMENT OF MOLECULAR MARKERS FOR ORIGIN DETERMINATION IN SAFFRON (J. Pardo, J.-A. Fernández, L.G. Gómez)

10. BIOSYNTHESIS OF CAROTENOIDS IN SAFFRON (A. Rubio, J.-A. Fernández, L.G. Gómez)

11. EXPRESSION OF L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE ISOENZYMES DURING ROOT DEVELOPMENT IN CROCUS SATIVUS L. CORM (J. Keyhani, E. Keyhani, N. Sattarahmady)

12. THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF ASCORBATE PEROXIDASE IN DORMANT CROCUS SATIVUS L. CORM (L. Ghamsari, E. Keyhani)

13. DETECTION AND KINETIC PROPERTIES OF ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE IN DORMANT CORM OF CROCUS SATIVUS L. (M. Hadizadeh, E. Keyhani)

14. DEVELOPMENT AND GENE EXPRESSION IN SAFFRON CORMS (M. Álvarez-Ortí, L.G. Gómez, A. Rubio, J. Escribano, J. Pardo, F. Jiménez, J.-A. Fernández)

15. STUDIES ON EXPRESSION OF GENES INVOLVED IN SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS AND STORAGE PROTEIN ACCUMULATION IN SAFFRON CROCUS (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) (M. Álvarez-Ortí, T. Schwarzacher, A. Rubio, S. Blázquez, A. Piqueras, J.-A. Fernández, P. Harrison)

16. CHARACTERIZATION OF A CLASS I CHITINASE FROM SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) (R. Castillo, L.G. Gómez, J.-A. Fernández)

17. INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE IN AGRICULTURE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO SAFFRON PRODUCTION IN IRAN (A.A. Koocheki)

18. PRODUCTIVITY, GROWTH AND QUALITY ATTRIBUTES OF 10 IRANIAN SAFFRON ACCESSIONS UNDER CLIMATIC CONDITIONS OF CHAHAR-MAHAL BAKHTIARI, CENTRAL IRAN (P. Ehsanzadeh, A.A. Yadollahi, A.M.M. Maibodi)

19. MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GREEK SAFFRON STIGMAS FROM KOZANI REGION (T. Mitsopoulou, M.Z. Tsimidou)

20. EXPERIMENTAL FINDINGS OF PRODUCTION AND ECHO PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) (A. Mollafilabi)

21. THE EFFECT OF NITROGEN FERTILIZERS (UREA, SULFUR COATED UREA) WITH MANURE ON THE SAFFRON YIELD (S. Rezaian, M. Forouhar)

22. INFLUENCE OF FOLIAR FERTILIZATION ON YIELD OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) (M. Hosseini, B. Sadeghiand, S.A. Aghamiri)

23. EVALUATION OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) YIELD COMPONENTS (A. Mollafilabi)

24. MODELING SAFFRON FLOWERING TIME ACROSS A TEMPERATURE GRADIENT (M.A. Behdani, M. Nassiri, A.A. Koocheki)

25. EXTENDING THE HARVEST PERIOD OF SAFFRON (R.V. Molina, A. García-Luis, M. Valero, Y. Navarro, J.L. Guardiola)

26. CULTIVATION TECHNIQUES, MORPHOLOGY AND ENZYMATIC PROPERTIES OF CROCUS SATIVUS L. (E. Keyhani, J. Keyhani, M. Hadizadeh, L. Ghamsari, F. Attar)

27. MODALITY OF THE CONTRACTILE ROOT FORMATION IN CULTIVATED SAFFRON, IN FIELD CONDITION AND IN TISSUE CULTURE (M. Khalesi, B. Behboodi, H. Ebrahimzadeh)

28. PLANTLET REGENERATION VIA SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS IN FOUR SPECIES OF CROCUS (R. Karamian)

29. SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS IN SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.): MORPHOLOGICAL DIFFERENTIATION AND THE ROLE OF THE ANTIOXIDANT ENZYMATIC SYSTEM (S. Blázquez, E. Olmos, J.A. Hernández, E. Hellín, J.-A. Fernández, A. Piqueras)

30. SOMATIC EMBRYOGENESIS IN SAFFRON: OPTIMISATION THROUGH TEMPORARY IMMERSION AND POLYAMINE METABOLISM (S. Blázquez, A. Piqueras, M.D. Serna, J.L. Casas, J.-A. Fernández)

31. COLCHICINE INDUCED VARIABILITY IN SAFFRON (G. Zaffar, S.A. Wani, T. Anjum, N.A. Zeerak)

32. INDUCED MUTAGENIC VARIABILITY IN SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) (I.A. Khan)

33. ROOM TABLE: AGRONOMICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPROACHES FOR SAFFRON IMPROVEMENT (H. Vurdu)

34. SAFFRON: ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF COLORANTS TO ITS COMMERCIAL QUALITY (M.Z. Tsimidou)

35. A RAPID PROCEDURE FOR THE EVALUATION OF SAFFRON COLOURING STRENGTH USING TRISTIMULUS COLORIMETRY (L. Cuko, T. Mitsopoulou, M.Z. Tsimidou)

36. COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT EXTRACTION PROCEDURES AND HPLC METHODS TO DETECT CROCINS IN SAFFRON (M. Carmona, A. Zalacaín, M.I. Rodríguez, M.R. Salinas, G.L. Alonso)

37. IMPROVED CONDITIONS TO EXTRACT EXOGENOUS YELLOW WATER-SOLUBLE COLORANTS ADDED TO SAFFRON AVOIDING CROCETIN ESTERS INTERFERENCES (A. Zalacaín, I. Blázquez, E.M. Díaz-Plaza, M. Carmona, G.L. Alonso)

38. KINETIC STUDY OF THE PHOTODECOLORATION OF THE SAFFRON (M. del Rosario Haro, D. Escolar, C. Bueno, J. Ayuso)

39. CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) FROM FOUR COUNTRIES (H. Caballero-Ortega, R. Pereda-Miranda, L. Riverón-Negrete, J.M. Hernández, M. Medécigo-Ríos, A. Castillo-Villanueva, F.I. Abdullaev)

40. FT-NIR SPECTROMETRY APPROACH FOR DETERMINING SAFFRON ORIGIN (A. Zalacaín, E.M. Díaz-Plaza, I. Blázquez, M. Carmona, G.L. Alonso)

41. DETECTION OF ARTIFICIAL RED COLORANTS IN SAFFRON USING UV-VIS SPECTROMETRY AND TRISTIMULUS COLORIMETRY (S.A. Ordoudi, M.Z. Tsimidou)

42. DECONTAMINATION OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.) BY ELECTRON BEAM IRRADIATION (H.B. Ghoddusi, B. Glatz)

43. EVALUATION OF QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS AND MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION OF SAFFRON SAMPLES DRIED BY MICROWAVE (M.H. Nejad)

44. SAFFRON BY-PRODUCTS INTEGRATED VALORISATION USING AGRORESOURCE REFINING CONCEPT (ARC) (M. Bergoin, C. Raynaud, G. Vilarem, J.-M. Bessière, T. Talou)

45. EXTRACTION AND EVALUATION OF SAFFRON OLEORESIN (Q. Rajabzadeh, R. Malekzadeh, A. Sharif)

46. THE APPLICATION OF CROCIN AND SAFFRON ETHANOL-EXTRACTABLE COMPONENTS IN FORMULATION OF HEALTH CARE AND BEAUTY CARE PRODUCTS (H. Fekrat)

47. NEW SAFFRON PRODUCTS AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY (A. Shariati-Moghaddam)

48. A NEW LOOK AT SAFFRON: MISTAKEN BELIEFS (M. Carmona, G.L. Alonso)

49. HOW CAN ANTHROPOLOGY CONTRIBUTE TO THE EXPANSION OF SAFFRON PRODUCTION? (S. Helfer)

50. SAFFRON NEEDS MARKETING (J. Rohmeder)

51. ROOM TABLE: INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVES FOR SAFFRON (J.-M. Thiercelin)

52. THE THERAPEUTIC AND PROPHYLACTIC EFFECTS OF CROCUS SATIVUS L. (SAFFRON) IN SENILE DEMENTIA (H. Saito)

53. PREVENTION OF PC-12 CELL DEATH BY CROCIN VIA SPHINGOMYELINASE-CERAMIDE SIGNALING BY INCREASE OF GLUTATHIONE BIOSYNTHESIS (T. Ochiai, S. Soeda, S. Ohno, H. Shimeno, H. Tanaka, Y. Shoyama, J. Molnar, L. Berek, T. Bartok)

54. ANTIDEPRESSANT EFFECT OF CROCUS SATIVUS L. STIGMA EXTRACTS AND THEIR CONSTITUENTS, CROCIN AND SAFRANAL, IN MICE (H. Hosseinzadeh, G. Karimi, M. Niapoor)

55. CHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND ANTITUMOR ACTIVITY OF NATURAL AND SEMI-NATURAL CAROTENOIDS OF SAFFRON (P.A. Tarantilis, M.G. Polissiou)

56. EFFECT OF SAFFRON ON THE VIABILITY OF NORMAL AND MALIGNANT HUMAN CELLS IN VITRO (F. Trujillo-Jiménez, P. García-López, A. Garcí-Carrancá, F.I. Abdullaev)

57. EVALUATION OF THE MUTAGENIC AND ANTIMUTAGENIC ACTIVITIES OF SAFFRON (J.M. Hernández, F.I. Abdullaev, H. Caballero-Ortega, L. Riverón-Negrete, I. Pérez-López, M. Medécigo-Ríos)

58. ADDITIVE INHIBITORY EFFECT OF SAFFRON IN COMBINATION WITH SODIUM SELENITE ON TUMOR CELLS (L. Riverón-Negrete, R. Camacho-Carranza, H. Caballero-Ortega, J.M. Hernández, M. Medécigo-Ríos, A. Castillo-Villanueva, I. Pérez-López, J.J. Espinosa-Aguirre, F. Abdullaev)

59. PRESENCE OF BIOACTIVE GLYCOCONJUGATES ON DIFFERENT STAGES OF SAFFRON CORM (A. Rubio, P. Fernández-Nohales, G. Gerwig, J. Escribano, J.P. Kamerling, J.-A. Fernández)

60. ANTITUMOR EFFECT OF SAFFRON (CROCUS SATIVUS L.): OVERVIEW AND PERSPECTIVES (F.I. Abdullaev)