Ancient Plants

Plants in Ancient Greece

Traditional Medicinal Plants: Ancient and Modern Approach

History of medicine and plants dates back to remote past when herbal treatment was the only answer to all kind of ailments. Nowadays, greater emphasis is again being laid to phytotherapy all over the world. Besides, cultivation-cum-setting up herbal gardens are also mooted on hills and plain areas as management of all kinds of diseases is possible through plant drugs sans toxicity.

Ancient-modern concordance in Ayurvedic plants: some examples.

Ayurveda is the ancient (before 2500 b.c.) Indian system of health care and longevity. It involves a holistic view of man, his health, and illness. Ayurvedic treatment of a disease consists of salubrious use of drugs, diets, and certain practices. Medicinal preparations are invariably complex mixtures, based mostly on plant products. Around 1,250 plants are currently used in various Ayurvedic p...

Ancient Ways Innate Immunity in Plants, Flies, and People

The efficacy of RNAi in mammalian cells has naturally animals and is in competition with the fifth and thirteenth led to the successful demonstration that the specificity chapters on the biochemistry and enzymology of RNAi of RNAi can be exploited to inhibit dominant oncogenes as the most informative and enjoyable chapter. There while the potency of RNAi can inhibit virus replication are also w...

An ancient tripartite symbiosis of plants, ants and scale insects.

In the Asian tropics, a conspicuous radiation of Macaranga plants is inhabited by obligately associated Crematogaster ants tending Coccus (Coccidae) scale insects, forming a tripartite symbiosis. Recent phylogenetic studies have shown that the plants and the ants have been codiversifying over the past 16-20 million years (Myr). The prevalence of coccoids in ant-plant mutualisms suggest that the...