The Use of Brassicaceae by the Ancient Romans

Toscano, Stefania; Scuderi, Dario; Tribulato, A.; Romano, D.

doi:10.17660/actahortic.2013.1005.21

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“…Three of the crops identified from the sites discussed here were not yet known from the archaeobotanical record of the Iberian Peninsula, and they allow us to establish that turnip, spinach, and medlar were present in medieval times. Although plants of the Brassicaceae family are frequently mentioned in the texts of Roman authors [45,46] and also in medieval times, large assemblages tend to be exceptional in archaeobotanical samples [47], even though some varieties of Brassicaceae have been used for oil production since ancient times. This lack of large assemblages is perhaps due to the small number of seeds needed for reproduction.…”

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The Town as Agrarian Dissipative Structure: Cash Crops in the Medieval Kingdom of Galicia

Teira-Brión¹,

Doce²,

Lorenzo³

et al. 2022

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Towns emerged as dynamic economic and political centers during the Middle Ages, giving rise to the emergence of new social classes. As a result of these functions, a new relationship began to be forged with the rural world, which supplied towns with foodstuffs that satisfied new social demands. Archaeobotanical analysis (carpology) allows us to understand the flow of cash crops by tracing seeds and fruits produced in the countryside that were consumed in and redistributed from the towns. The study of waterlogged contexts from medieval archaeological sites in the Kingdom of Galicia (Santiago de Compostela, Padrón, and Pontevedra) has provided a set of species that played a crucial role in the economy of the urban dwellers and that possibly were related to differential access or food preferences. Evidence for fruits (grapes, chestnuts, figs, apples, and cherries, among others), garden crops (melon), and cereals (foxtail millet, rye, naked wheat, and oat) has been documented. Broomcorn millet is particularly abundant, demonstrating that it was important for subsistence. Some of the species found (medlar, turnip/grelo, and spinach) are novel in the archaeobotanical literature of the medieval period in the Iberian Peninsula.

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The Town as Agrarian Dissipative Structure: Cash Crops in the Medieval Kingdom of Galicia

Teira-Brión¹,

Doce²,

Lorenzo³

et al. 2022

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“…Three of the crops identified from the sites discussed here were not yet known from the archaeobotanical record of the Iberian Peninsula, and they allow us to establish that turnip and medlar were present in medieval times. Although plants of the Brassicaceae family are frequently mentioned in the texts of Roman authors [45,46] and also in medieval times, large assemblages tend to be exceptional in archaeobotanical samples [47], even though some varieties of Brassicaceae have been used for oil production since ancient times. This lack of large assemblages is perhaps due to the small number of seeds needed for reproduction.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Town as Agrarian Dissipative Structure: Cash Crops in the Medieval Kingdom of Galicia

Teira-Brión¹,

Doce²,

Lorenzo³

et al. 2022

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Towns emerged as dynamic economic and political centers during the Middle Ages, giving rise to the emergence of new social classes. As a result of these functions, a new relationship began to be forged with the rural world, which supplied towns with foodstuffs that satisfied new social demands. Archaeobotanical analysis (carpology) allows us to understand the flow of cash crops by tracing seeds and fruits produced in the countryside that were consumed in and redistributed from the towns. The study of waterlogged contexts from medieval archaeological sites in the Kingdom of Galicia (Santiago de Compostela, Padrón, and Pontevedra) has provided a set of species that played a crucial role in the economy of the urban dwellers and that possibly were related to differential access or food preferences. Evidence for fruits (grapes, chestnuts, figs, apples, and cherries, among others), garden crops (melon), and cereals (foxtail millet, rye, naked wheat, and oat) has been documented. Broomcorn millet is particularly abundant, demonstrating that it was important for subsistence. Some of the species found (medlar and turnip/grelo) are novel in the archaeobotanical literature of the medieval period in the Iberian Peninsula.

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“…[4][5][6] The Brassicaceae family includes a large number of species with great economic and nutritional relevance around the world; many of these species are native to the Mediterranean basin. [7,8] For years, several species belonging to this family have been an attractive research topic, due to their chemical composition characterized by many valuable metabolites, which are directly linked to different recognized biological activities. [9,10] For some years now, several species included in the Brassicaceae family belonging to the spontaneous flora of Sicily (Italy) have been investigated by our research team to discover novel sources of health-promoting compounds through the chemical and biological characterization of the active secondary metabolites.…”

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“…The Brassicaceae family includes a large number of species with great economic and nutritional relevance around the world; many of these species are native to the Mediterranean basin [7,8] . For years, several species belonging to this family have been an attractive research topic, due to their chemical composition characterized by many valuable metabolites, which are directly linked to different recognized biological activities [9,10] .…”

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Contribution of Phenolic Compounds to the Antioxidant Activity of Leaf and Flower Extracts of Sinapis pubescens L. subsp. pubescens (Brassicaceae)

Taviano,

Arena,

Davì

et al. 2024

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Within a study focused on Sinapis pubescens subsp. pubescens wild from Sicily (Italy), an edible species still unexplored, our earlier published work has demonstrated good in vitro antioxidant properties for the flower and leaf hydroalcoholic extracts, exhibiting quite different qualitative‐quantitative phenolic profiles. Herein, further research was designed to elucidate the role played by phenolic compounds in the different antioxidant mechanisms highlighted for the extracts. To achieve this goal, the crude extracts were subjected to liquid‐liquid partitioning with solvents of increasing polarity; then, the fractions were investigated for their antioxidant properties using different in vitro assays. For both flowers and leaves, the ethyl acetate fractions exhibited the best activity in DPPH and reducing power assays, followed by n‐butanol. The total phenolic content determination indicated these fractions as the phenolic‐rich ones, which were characterized by HPLC‐PDA/ESI‐MS analysis. Conversely, the phenolic‐rich fractions did not show any chelating activity, which was highlighted for the more hydrophobic ones.

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The Use of Brassicaceae by the Ancient Romans

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The Town as Agrarian Dissipative Structure: Cash Crops in the Medieval Kingdom of Galicia

The Town as Agrarian Dissipative Structure: Cash Crops in the Medieval Kingdom of Galicia

The Town as Agrarian Dissipative Structure: Cash Crops in the Medieval Kingdom of Galicia

Contribution of Phenolic Compounds to the Antioxidant Activity of Leaf and Flower Extracts of Sinapis pubescens L. subsp. pubescens (Brassicaceae)

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