Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Health Benefits of Brassica Species
(Tzi Bun Ng, Charlene Cheuk Wing Ng and Jack Ho Wong, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China)
Chapter 2. Benefits of Brassica Nutracentical Compounds on Human Health
Elsa M. Gonçalves, Carla Alegria and Marta Abreu, Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agraria e Veterinária (INIAV), Portugal)
Chapter 3. New Broccoli Varieties with Improved Health Benefits and Suitability for the Fresh–Cut and Fifth Range Industries: An Opportunity to Increase its Consumption
(Ginés Benito Martínez–Hernández, Perla A. Gómez, Francisco Artés and Francisco Artés–Hernández, Postharvest and Refrigeration Group. Department of Food Engineering and Institute of Plant Biotechnology, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Murcia, Spain)
Chapter 4. Degradation of Chlorophyll during Postharvest Senescence of Broccoli
(Gustavo A. Martínez, Pedro M. Civello and María E. Gómez-Lobato, Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas – Instituto Tecnológico de Chascomús (IIB-INTECH) UNSAM-CONICET, Buenas Aires, Argentina and others)
Chapter 5. Mini-Review of the Molecular Properties and Physiological Functions of Non-Photoconvertible Water-Soluble Chlorophyll-Binding Proteins (WSCPS) in Brassicaceae Plants
(Shigekazu Takahashi and Hiroyuki Satoh, Department of Biomolecular Science, Toho University, Chiba, Japan)
Chapter 6. The Physiology, Functional Genomics, and Applied Ecology of Heavy Metal-Tolerant Brassicaceae
(Jillian E. Gall and Nishanta Rajakaruna, College of The Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME, USA)
Chapter 7. Three-Dimensional Molecular Structure Prediction of Selenocysteine Methyltransferase (BoSMT) from Brassica oleracea
(Raman Chandrasekar, P.G. Brintha, Minglin Lang, M. Chandrasekaran and K. Murugan, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics,
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA, and others)
Index