Stability-increasing effects of anthocyanin glycosyl acylation.

This review comprehensively summarizes the existing knowledge regarding the chemical implications of anthocyanin glycosyl acylation, the effects of acylation on the stability of acylated anthocyanins and the corresponding mechanisms. Anthocyanin glycosyl acylation commonly refers to the phenomenon in which the hydroxyl groups of anthocyanin glycosyls are esterified by aliphatic or aromatic acids, which is synthetically represented by the acylation sites as well as the types and numbers of acyl groups. Generally, glycosyl acylation increases the in vitro and in vivo chemical stability of acylated anthocyanins, and the mechanisms primarily involve physicochemical, stereochemical, photochemical, biochemical or environmental aspects under specific conditions.

Molecular structures of the stem tuber anthocyanins of colored potatoes and their coloring effects on the tubers.

This paper summarized the important achievements about the general characteristics of the molecular structures of the stem tuber anthocyanins of Colored potatoes and the basic coloring effects of the anthocyanins on the tubers. The various coloration patterns of the skins and/or flesh of Colored potato tubers result from the accumulation of the anthocyanins in the periderms, phelloderms and/or peripheral cortices of the tubers, and the tuber colors are fundamentally determined by the matching profiles of the six naturally occurring anthocyanidins, i.e.

[Construction and sequence analysis of a normalized full-length cDNA library of Dendrobium officinale].

Objective: In order to obtain functional genes, a normalized stems cDNA library was constructed from medicinal plant Dendrobium officinale.

Method: SMART (switching mechanism at 5' end of RNA transcript) cDNA synthesis combined with DSN (duplex-specific nuclease) normalization was applied to construct the normalized full-length cDNA library of D. officinale.

[RAPD analysis on genetic relationships of Erigeron breviscapus germplasm resources].

Objective: To investigate the genetic relationships of Erigeron breviscapus at the molecular biology level.

Method: Thirty seven germplasm resources of E. breviscapus which collected from Yunnan, Sichuang and Guizhou province in 2005 were analyzed by Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and cluster analysis based on NTSYS2.