The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of plant essential oils (EOs) in combination and to investigate the effect of food ingredients on their efficacy. The EOs assessed in combination included basil, lemon balm, marjoram, oregano, rosemary, sage and thyme. Combinations of EOs were initially screened against Bacillus cereus, Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes and Pseudom...

oil on 15 clinical strains of Candida spp., isolated from humans and dogs and to determine if there is a difference in susceptibility between human and dog isolates. Sampling in patients with stomatitis was done by swabbing the denture or oral mucosa swab while sampling in dogs was done by swabbing the oral cavity mucosa after stomatitis has been diagnosed. In order to investigate the antifunga...

Talazadeh F and Mayahi M Journal of Herbmed Pharmacology, Volume 6, Number 1, January 2017 http://www.herbmedpharmacol.com 34 (14). This phytosterol complex targets the TH1 and TH2 cells, resulting in improved T-lymphocyte and natural killer cell activities (15). Chinese herbs can also help to develop immune organs, such as the spleen and thymus (16) as well as increase in antibody production. ...

the iranian thymus daenensis subsp. daenensis is rich in monoterpene phenols (especially thymol and carvacrol). this research was conducted to isolate and characterize the plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (pgprs) from rhizosphere of t. daenensis. pgprs were screened based on some physiological traits including iaa production, phosphate solubilization, and siderophore compounds production ab...

Medicinal plants have a long tradition of use in folk and conventional medicine. In recent years numerous studies confirm various bioactivities of natural products, among them antibacterial activity. Natural antibacterial agents such are essential oils and isolated compounds now represent a notable source for pharmaceutical and food industry and are widely used in cosmetology. They meet standar...

In the Mediterranean zone semi-natural vegetation and diverse mountain-cropping systems have been converted into monocultures with low tree densities, leaving the soil unprotected. Soil loss and runoff over a three-year period were monitored in hillside erosion plots (35% slope and 144 m 2 in area) with almond (Prunus amygdalus) trees under three soil-management systems: no-tillage with sage (S...

I am most honoured by your invitation to speak at this meeting of the Shanghai Institute of Bio-historiography. As many of you know, I work at the University of San Francisco de Crico, in that remote Pacific province of the Spanish Empire, Hispano-America, and I am interested mainly in the early history of plant genetic engineering, that obscure period covering the end of the 20th century (old ...