TL;DR: Overexpression of longan AP1 genes in transgenic arabidopsis results in a range of flowering time phenotypes also including early and late flowering individuals, suggesting functions in the longan flowering pathway.
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper, 2013CB733505; National Natural Science Foundation of China [51378444]; programe for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-13-0501]
TL;DR: The HPLC analysis showed that the major phenolic compounds are gallic acid, corilagin, ethyl gallate and ellagic acid, which showed the strongest activity against Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. a Aureus at MIC 64 μg/mL.
Abstract: The antimicrobial activities of longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour. Fen ke) seed extracts were investigated using a disc diffusion method and also determining the minimal inhibitory concentration. The DL-P01-SI01 fraction showed that the strongest activity against Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus at MIC 64 μg/mL, which was found to be due to the phenolic compounds. The HPLC analysis showed that the major phenolic compounds are gallic acid, corilagin, ethyl gallate and ellagic acid.
TL;DR: Longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.) belongs to Sapindaceae family, and is one of the important tropical/subtropical woody fruit trees.
Abstract: Longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.) belongs to Sapindaceae family, and is one of the important tropical/subtropical woody fruit trees. The number of chromosomes is 2n=2x=30. Longan trees are usually 6–10 meters tall, however, many grow in wilderness up to 40 meters with a trunk diameter of up to one meter. Sometimes trees are with buttresses, branches terete occasionally with warty lenticles, densely tomentose; and leaves are normally glabrous, sometimes hairy. Fruit are drupaceous, 1–3 cm in diameter, ellipsoid to globular, smooth to warty, sometimes granular, yellow-brown. Seeds are globular, with shining black or brown testa, and the seed are enveloped by a fleshy white arilloid (Tindall 1995, quoting from Verheij & Cornel 1991).
TL;DR: Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and partial rbcL gene sequencing were used to investigate genetic diversity among various longan accessions as well as a presumed closely related species Dimocarpus confinis How et Ho and litchi, indicating that D. confinis should be excluded from the longan genus.