| Family |
Brassicaceae |
| Scientific name |
Lunaria annua L. |
| Synonyms |
Lunaria biennis Moench; Lunaria biennis Moench var. albiflora de Candolle;
Lunaria inodora Lamarck; Lunaria ovalis Stokes |
| Common name |
(Japanese common name) gouda-sou (ゴウダソウ, 合田草 [meaning: Professor Gouda's
weed]), ooban-sou (オオバンソウ, 大判草 [meaning: large golden coin weed]), ginka-sou
(ギンカソウ, 銀貨草 [meaning: silver coin weed]), ginsen-sou (ギンセンソウ, 銀扇草 [meaning:
silver wind-fan weed]) |
| (English common name) common moonwort, honesty, moneyplant |
| Distribution |
(Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu |
| (Other nations) [native] Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Greece, Italy |
| Chromosomal number |
2n=30 |
| Description |
Plants electing 30-100cm tall. Leaves ca. 6cm long. Flowers purple (or
merely white) ca. 2-3cm across, flowering in April to May. Fruits ca. 3cm
across. Winter annual plants. |
| Reference |
Lunaria annua L. |
| Lunaria annua Linn. |
| Use of nervonic acid and long chain fatty acids for the treatment of demyelinating disorders (US Patent 5194448/1993) |
| Plant viral vectors having heterologous subgenomic promoters for systemic expression of foreign genes (US Patent 5316931/1994) |
| Composition for treatment of plant material (US Patent 5817600/1998) |
| FAE1 genes and their uses (US Patent 6124524/2000) |
| Nucleic acid sequences encoding a plant cytoplasmic protein involved in fatty acyl-CoA metabolism (US Patent 6828475/2004) |
| Transgenic plants and plant cells comprising a reduced expression of invertase inhibitors (US Patent 6784339/2004) |
| Regulation of embryonic transcription in plants (US Patent 6784342/2004) |
| Trace element phytoremediation (US Patent 6974896/2005) |
| Heavy metal phytoremediation (US Patent 7034202/2006) |
| Recombinant viral nucleic acids (US Patent 7192740/2007) |
| Lunaria annua, Cardamine graeca and Teesdalia nudicalius FAE genes and their use in producing nervonic and eicosenoic acids in seed oils (WIPO Patent WO/2008/061334) |
| Acyl-coa-dependent diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 (DGAT1) gene from Tropaeolum majus, protein encoded thereby and uses thereof (WIPO Patent WO/2008/006207) |
| Nervonic acid compositions (European Patent EP0769917/2001) |
| Note |
Naturalized plants (introduced by Professor Gouda) |
