History, Phylogeny, Biodiversity, and New Computer-Based Tools for Efficient Micropropagation and Conservation of Pistachio (Pistacia spp.) Germplasm

E Nezami, PP Gallego - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
The word “pstk”[pistag], used in the ancient Persian language, is the linguistic root from
which the current name “pistachio”, used worldwide, derives. The word pistachio is generally …

Pistacia genus as a potential source of neuroprotective natural products

R Moeini, Z Memariani, F Asadi, M Bozorgi… - Planta …, 2019 - thieme-connect.com
Neuroprotective agents are able to defend the central nervous system against acute or
chronic neuronal injuries. Even with the progress made over the last decades, most of the …

Taxonomic revision of the genus Pistacia L.(Anacardiaceae)

MG AL-Saghir, DM Porter - American Journal of plant sciences, 2011 - scirp.org
Pistacia is an economically important genus because it contains the pistachio crop, P. vera,
which has edible seeds of considerable commercial importance whose value has increased …

Evolutionary loss and replacement of Buchnera, the obligate endosymbiont of aphids

RA Chong, NA Moran - The ISME journal, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Symbiotic interactions between organisms create new ecological niches. For example, many
insects survive on plant-sap with the aid of maternally transmitted bacterial symbionts that …

Biogeographic history of Pistacia (Anacardiaceae), emphasizing the evolution of the Madrean-Tethyan and the eastern Asian-Tethyan disjunctions

L Xie, ZY Yang, J Wen, DZ Li, TS Yi - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2014 - Elsevier
Pistacia L. exhibits a disjunct distribution in Mediterranean Eurasia and adjacent North
Africa, eastern Asia, and North to Central America. The spatio-temporal diversification …

[PDF][PDF] Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Pistacia L.(Anacardiaceae) based on morphological data

MG AL-Saghir - Asian Journal of Plant Sciences, 2010 - researchgate.net
Pistacia is an economically important genus because it contains the pistachio crop Pistica
vera L. which has edible seeds of considerable commercial importance. The phylogenetic …

Geographic distribution and migration pathways of Pistacia – present, past and future

G Kozhoridze, N Orlovsky, L Orlovsky… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The global distribution of Pistacia is correlated to its adaptability to environmental conditions
and mechanisms that had driven the genus to the current unique narrow latitudinal belt in …

Range of correlations in the size distributions of plant proteins

MMF de Lima, GHS Nunes, UL Fulco… - … Physical Journal Plus, 2023 - epjplus.epj.org
We report a comparative analysis of protein length distributions for 23 plant species. The
protein lengths are measured in number of amino acids (aa). Data were extracted from the …

Plant-based snacking: Research and practical applications of pistachios for health benefits

J Higgs, K Styles, A Carughi, MA Roussell… - Journal of nutritional …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Pistachio nuts are a nutrient-dense source of good quality plant protein, commonly
consumed as a minimally processed snack food or ingredient. The present paper is based …

Profiling of regioisomeric triacylglycerols in pistachio nuts by high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

F Sabzi, D Sirbu, N Kuhnert - Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
In this contribution, a non-aqueous reversed-phase liquid chromatographic method coupled
to electrospray ionization (ESI) tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS) is used for the …