{"id":1821,"date":"2019-02-05T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/youngken-garden\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2019-02-05T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:48:15","slug":"horseradish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/youngken-garden\/horseradish\/","title":{"rendered":"Horseradish"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Scientific Name:&nbsp;<em>Amoracia rusticana<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>The&nbsp;enzyme&nbsp;horseradish peroxidase&nbsp;(HRP), found in the plant, is used extensively in molecular biology and biochemistry primarily for its ability to amplify a weak signal and increase detectability of a target molecule. Leaf and root were used extensively for medicine in the middle ages, and continue to be employed in folk medicine. When cut or grated enzymes from the now-broken plant cells break down sinigrin (a glucosinolate) to produce allyl isothiocyanate (mustard oil), which irritates the mucous membranes of the sinuses and eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific Name:&nbsp;Amoracia rusticana The&nbsp;enzyme&nbsp;horseradish peroxidase&nbsp;(HRP), found in the plant, is used extensively in molecular biology and biochemistry primarily for its ability to amplify a weak signal and increase detectability of a target molecule. Leaf and root were used extensively for medicine in the middle ages, and continue to be employed in folk medicine. When cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[256,112,58],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plants","tag-plant-family-brassicaceae","tag-summer-location-bed-12","tag-type-perrenial"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/youngken-garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/youngken-garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/youngken-garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/youngken-garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/youngken-garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/youngken-garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/youngken-garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/youngken-garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/youngken-garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/youngken-garden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}