Glycyrrhiza glabra L. (Fabaceae), commonly known as 'liquorice', is a well-known medicinal plant. Roots of this plant have long been used as a sweetening and flavouring agent in food and pharmaceutical products, and also as a traditional remedy for cough, upper and lower respiratory ailments, kidney stones, hepatitis C, skin disorder, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, gastrointestinal ulcers a...

Meloidogyne incognita and M. arenaria reproduction and host plant tolerance were assessed in field and greenhouse experiments on seven holly cultivars including Ilex glabra 'Shamrock', I. vomitoria 'Schelling's Dwarf', I. cornuta 'Carissa', red holly hybrid (Ilex Little Red), and I. crenata 'Compacta', 'Green Luster', and 'Helleri' as well as Japanese boxwood (Buxus microphylla) and two lantana...

Floral scent is a key component of floral display, and probably one of the first floral attractants linking insect pollinators to the radiation of Angiosperms. In this article, we investigate floral scent in two extra-tropical genera of Annonaceae. We discuss floral scent in the context of differing pollination strategies in these genera, and compare their scent to that of a close tropical rela...

Sarcandra glabra (Thunb.) Nakai, colloquially known as Caoshanhu, is a Chinese medicinal herb with reported anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, anti-viral and non-specific immunoenhancing properties. Although the plant has been clinically used for treating a variety of diseases, its bioactive ingredients are largely unknown and its mode of action has never been investigated. In this study, the anti-...

Objective: A review article on Glycyrrhiza glabra, A plant which have lots of medicinal properties. So it may be known as plant for the future. The present article is an effort to highlight the role of a few major constituents of this plant, which have multifaceted pharmacological actions and could be used as a template for designing new herbal medicines. Plants have been one of the important s...

گونه‌های Charipinae جمع آوری شده از هند، بازنگری و تغییراتی در تاکسونومی برخی گونه‌هایی که اخیراً این کشور توصیف شده‌اند پیشنهاد شد. تعداد معتبر آرایه هفت عدد است عبارتند Alloxysta brevis (Thomson, 1862)، A. consobrina (Zetterstedt, 1838)، nottoni Ferrer-Suay & Pujade-Villar, 2015، pleuralis (Cameron, 1879)، Phaenoglyphis indica 2013، P. longicornis (Hartig, 1840) villosa 1841). ochracea Bijoy R...

Three novel furoquinoline alkaloid oxogeranyl ethers (1-3) and one known furoquinoline alkaloid (4) were isolated from the leaves of Boninia glabra, an endemic plant of the Bonin Islands. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic analysis.

background peganum harmala, glycyrrhiza glabra, mentha spicata and rosmarinus officinalis are often used in traditional medicine. objectives the current study aimed to screen the antifungal activity of ethanolic extracts of p. harmala, g. glabra, m. spicata and r. officinalis leaves collected from sistan region, iran against fusarium oxysporum. methods minimal inhibitory concentration (mic) and...

A review of the publications in traditional medicine indicates that the root of Glycyrrhiza glabra L., Fabaceae, is recommended for treatment of epilepsy. As a renewable source, the leaves of G. glabra var. glandulifera growing in Iran were examined for possible anticonvulsant activity. The anticonvulsant activity of the leaves' ethanol extract and dichloromethane, f1, n-Hexane, f1A, and methan...