| Family |
Asteraceae (alt. Compositae) |
| Scientific name |
Senecio vulgaris L. |
| Synonyms |
Senecio gaffatensis Vatke; Senecio semperflorens Stokes; Senecio teneriffae
Schultz Bipontinus ex Bolle; Senecio vulgaris L. subsp. denticulatus (O.
F. Müller) P.D. Sell; Senecio vulgaris L. var. dubius (Ledebour) Franchet;
Senecio vulgaris L. var. dubius Trautvetter; Senecio vulgaris L. var. hibernicus
Syme |
| Common name |
(Japanese common name) no-boro-giku [wild rag aster] |
| (English common name) common groundsel, groundsel, old man in the Spring, old man of spring |
| Distribution |
(Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Okinawa |
| (Other nations) Russia, Korea, China, Caucasus, Iran, Europa, Morocco,
Tunisia, Algeria, Libya |
| Chromosomal number |
2n=40 |
| Description |
Plants 20-40cm. Flowers yellow corollas, flowering in all seasons (mainly
in spring and late autumun). Winter annual plants. |
| Reference |
Senecio vulgaris L. |
| Senecio vulgaris L. |
| Senecio vulgaris Linnaeus |
| Senecio vulgaris L. |
| Selective herbicides (US Patent 4089674/1978) |
| Herbicidal methylphenyl carbamates (US Patent 4153447/1979) |
| Herbicidal 5-amino-4-cyano-1-phenyl-pyrazoles (US Patent 4505740/1985) |
| Cosmetic compositions for the treatment of the hair and skin contain in the form of a powder particles resulting from the pulverization of at least one plant substance and a cohesion agent (US Patent 4767618/1988) |
| Herbicidal combinations (US Patent 6090750/2000) |
| DNA encoding a plant deoxyhypusine synthase, a plant eukaryotic initiation factor 5A, transgenic plants and a method for controlling senescence programmed and cell death in plants (US Patent 6855529/2005) |
| Arabidopsis antisense deoxyhypusine synthase molecule and method of inhibiting deoxyhypusine synthase expression in plants (US Patent 6849782/2005) |
| Carnation antisense deoxyhypusine synthase molecule and method of inhibiting deoxyhypusine synthase expression in plants (US Patent 6897359/2005) |
| DNA encoding a plant deoxyhypusine synthase, a plant eukaryotic initiation factor 5A, transgenic plants and a method for controlling senescence programmed and cell death in plants (US Patent 7217866/2007) |
| Isolated nucleotides encoding arabidopsis senescence-induced elF-5A (US Patent 7226784/2007) |
| Polynucleotides encoding carnation senescence-induced DHS (US Patent 7265280/2007) |
| Note |
Naturalize plants (first recorded in 1887). |