Pteridium aquilinum

Common Names: bracken, bracken fern, brackenfern, northern bracken fern, western brackenfern

Ethnobotanical Studies

Studies

Ethnobotany around the Virovitica Area in NW Slavonia (Continental Croatia)-Record of Rare Edible Use of Fungus Sarccoscypha coccinea.

Ethnobotany
Vitasović-Kosić I et al (2024).
Plants (Basel).
DOI:
10.3390/plants13152153
PubMed:
39124271

Striking genetic homogeneity in the widespread South American bracken.

Yañez A et al (2024).
Am J Bot.
DOI:
10.1002/ajb2.16374
PubMed:
39001581

Modeling the environmental fate of bracken toxin ptaquiloside: Production, release and transport in the rhizosphere.

García-Jorgensen DB et al (2024).
Sci Total Environ.
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170658
PubMed:
38340825

Network pharmacology analysis of the renal protective effects of the bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) using experimental data obtained in an avian (quail) hyperuricemia model.

Li S et al (2024).
Int J Clin Pharmacol Ther.
DOI:
10.5414/CP204515
PubMed:
38294244

Health and Environmental Hazards of the Toxic Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn (Bracken Fern).

Review
Malík M et al (2023).
Plants (Basel).
DOI:
10.3390/plants13010018
PubMed:
38202326

Three new flavonoid glycosides isolated from Pteridium aquilinum.

Summary

Three new flavonoid glycosides were isolated from the aerial of a plant. They may serve as chemotaxonomic markers for the species. These compounds also showed potential anti-inflammatory activity, inhibiting NF-κB induction by 46.3%, 59.6%, and 29.2%.

Phytochemistry
Lu W et al (2024).
Nat Prod Res.
DOI:
10.1080/14786419.2023.2300403
PubMed:
38179650

Distribution and migration of uranium, chromium, and accompanying metal(loid)s in soil-plants system around a uranium hydrometallurgical area.

Wan Y et al (2023).
Environ Pollut.
DOI:
10.1016/j.envpol.2023.123235
PubMed:
38159635

Exogenous preculture with sucrose and abscisic acid improves post-cryopreservation survival of eastern bracken fern gametophytes.

Jang BK et al (2023).
Sci Rep.
DOI:
10.1038/s41598-023-45941-3
PubMed:
37898728

Cross-species oncogenomics offers insight into human muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Summary

Scientists studied urothelial carcinoma (UC) in dogs, cats, and cattle exposed to a carcinogen. UC in these animals share similarities with aggressive bladder cancer in humans. Understanding these models can help develop strategies to identify key factors driving the disease in humans.

Cancer
Wong K et al (2023).
Genome Biol.
DOI:
10.1186/s13059-023-03026-4
PubMed:
37635261

Early life conditions influence fledging success and subsequent local recruitment rates in a declining migratory songbird, the Whinchat Saxicola rubetra.

Halliwell C et al (2023).
Ecol Evol.
DOI:
10.1002/ece3.10346
PubMed:
37484934

Recovery of upland acid grasslands after successful Pteridium aquilinum control: Long-term effectiveness of cutting, repeated herbicide treatment and bruising.

Alday JG et al (2023).
J Environ Manage.
DOI:
10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118273
PubMed:
37269728

Botanical inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 viral entry: a phylogenetic perspective.

Summary

Researchers tested a collection of natural product extracts from popular botanical dietary supplements for their efficacy against SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. Out of 1867 extracts and 18 compounds, 310 extracts from 188 species were identified as having ≥ 50% viral entry inhibition activity at 20 µg/mL, with three extracts showing potent antiviral activity against both pseudotyped variants and infectious SARS-CoV-2. Two of these extracts were from Solidago altissima L. (Asteraceae) flowers and Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn (Dennstaedtiaceae) rhizomes. These findings could have important implications for the development of treatments for COVID-19 using botanical dietary supplements.

COVID-19
Risener CJ et al (2023).
Sci Rep.
DOI:
10.1038/s41598-023-28303-x
PubMed:
36690683

Case Report of Puffinosis in a Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) Suggesting Environmental Aetiology.

Esmonde NPG et al (2022).
Animals (Basel).
DOI:
10.3390/ani12243457
PubMed:
36552377

The oral bioaccessibility and gingival cytotoxicity of metal(loid)s in wild vegetables from mining areas: Implication for human oral health.

Tian W et al (2022).
Front Nutr.
DOI:
10.3389/fnut.2022.1042300
PubMed:
36407553

Anaemia in Ruminants Caused by Plant Consumption.

Review
Ruiz H et al (2022).
Animals (Basel).
DOI:
10.3390/ani12182373
PubMed:
36139233

Structure Characterization, Antioxidant and Immunomodulatory Activities of Polysaccharide from Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn.

Immunology
Zhao ZH et al (2022).
Foods.
DOI:
10.3390/foods11131834
PubMed:
35804650

New Insights on Structures Forming the Lignin-Like Fractions of Ancestral Plants.

Rencoret J et al (2021).
Front Plant Sci.
DOI:
10.3389/fpls.2021.740923
PubMed:
34691117

Does invasion by Pteridium aquilinum (Dennstaedtiaceae) affect the ecological succession in Atlantic Forest areas after a fire?

Carvalho TF et al (2022).
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int.
DOI:
10.1007/s11356-021-16761-7
PubMed:
34601685

1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) retards the senescence of Pteridium aquilinum var. latiusculum by regulating the cellular energy status and membrane lipid metabolism.

Zhang W et al (2021).
Food Sci Nutr.
DOI:
10.1002/fsn3.2406
PubMed:
34401084

Ptaquiloside in Pteridium aquilinum subsp. aquilinum and corresponding soils from the South of Italy: influence of physical and chemical features of soils on its occurrence.

Zaccone C et al (2014).
Sci Total Environ.
DOI:
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.07.046
PubMed:
25089695

Immunosuppressive effects of Pteridium aquilinum enhance susceptibility to urethane-induced lung carcinogenesis.

Genetics
Caniceiro BD et al (2015).
J Immunotoxicol.
DOI:
10.3109/1547691X.2014.885619
PubMed:
24552549

Control of Pteridium aquilinum: meta-analysis of a multi-site study in the UK.

Stewart G et al (2008).
Ann Bot.
DOI:
10.1093/aob/mcn020
PubMed:
18337356

Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn.

KENTEN RH et al (1957).
Biochem J.
PubMed:
13471505