Armoracia

Armoracia is a genus of flowering plants of the family Brassicaceae, native to the Palaearctic. Its best known member is horseradish, Armoracia rusticana, which is the type species.

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Armoracia is a genus within the plant family Brassicaceae. It belongs to the order Brassicales and the class Magnoliopsida, placing it within the phylum Tracheophyta and kingdom Plantae. The genus is part of the tribe Cardamineae and produces fruit of the silique type. Common names for the genus include armoracia, 辣根属, 马萝卜属, and křen.

Records of Armoracia have been documented in the United States, Brasil, and Denmark. Specimens are held by institutions including USF, SMM, BDI, DOV, and MO. The genus has 117,670 recorded occurrences and is associated with 428 PubMed entries.

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Species

GENUS

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderBrassicales
FamilyBrassicaceae

Native toAltay, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Chita, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Hungary, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania

Observations recorded117,670

Armoracia est un genre de plantes herbacées de la famille des Brassicaceae. Liste des espèces Armoracia rusticana G.Gaertn., B.Mey. et Scherb. - Raifort

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 68
With media: 70
Family: Brassicaceae
Collections: USF, SMM, BDI, DOV, MO, UAM
Recorded in: United States, Brasil, Denmark

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Research

428 papers

Phytochemical and functional analysis of horseradish (Armoracia rusticana) fermented and non-fermented root extracts.Fitoterapia · 2022
Phytochemical Analysis and Antidiabetic Potential of Armoracia Rusticana: Pharmacological and Computational Approach.Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening · 2021
Neurotrophic phenolic glycosides from the roots of Armoracia rusticana.Phytochemistry · 2023
Romanian Wild-Growing Armoracia rusticana L.-Untargeted Low-Molecular Metabolomic Approach to a Potential Antitumoral Phyto-Carrier System Based on Kaolinite.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
Microencapsulation of Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana L.) Juice Using Spray-Drying.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020

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Armoracia is a genus of flowering plants of the family Brassicaceae, native to the Palaearctic. Its best known member is horseradish, Armoracia rusticana, which is the type species.

==Species== Many species have been described, but most have ended up synonymized. Plants of the World Online accepts three species. Armoracia macrocarpa (Waldst. & Kit.) Kit. ex Baumg. Armoracia rusticana P.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb. Armoracia sisymbrioides (DC.) N.Busch ex Ganesh

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