Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center and Center for Genetic Medicine, 420 E. Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60611, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Cor...

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) pose threats to conservation and public health. Here, we apply the definition of EIDs used in the medical and veterinary fields to botany and highlight a series of emerging plant diseases. We include EIDs of cultivated and wild plants, some of which are of significant conservation concern. The underlying cause of most plant EIDs is the anthropogenic introduct...

Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a mass spectrometry based molecular ion imaging technique. It provides the means for ascertaining the spatial distribution of a large variety of analytes directly on tissue sample surfaces without any labeling or staining agents. These advantages make it an attractive molecular histology tool in medical, pharmaceutical, and biological research. Likewise, MSI h...

Plant Biology Laboratory (D.W., J.H.A., M.A.B., J.O.B., S.K.C., C.Fankhauser, I.K., E.J.M., M.M.N., J.T.N., Z.-Y.W., Y.X., C.J.L., J.C.) and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (J.C.), The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037; Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093–0116 (C.Ferrándiz, S.S., ...

Malva sylvestris (MS) is a kind of plant that grows naturally in fields, hedgerows, and fallow fields. The plant is commonly used in cooking in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. Despite its extensive usage, only one case of an adverse effect of MS has been reported in the English medical literature until today (1). Here, we present a new case with fulminant hepatic failure and renal failur...

Plant Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 975 North Warson Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63132 (E.M.H.); University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute, 1120 Marshall Street, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202 (R.M.H.); Pioneer Hi-Bred International, 7300 NW 62nd...

Azadirachta indica is a very useful traditional medicinal plant in the sub-continent and each part of the tree has some medicinal properties. The plant is native to Asia, but has now naturalized in West Africa and is widely cultivated in Nigeria as an ornamental as well as medicinal plant. Fresh leaves of the plant were collected, dried, homogenized and extracted using 95% Ethanol, Methanol and...

Accurate plant disease diagnoses and rapid detection and identification of plant pathogens are of utmost importance for controlling plant diseases and mitigating the economic losses they incur. Technological advances have increasingly simplified the tools available for the identification of pathogens to the extent that, in some cases, this can be done directly by growers and producers themselve...

Cannabis sativa L. (Cannabaceae) has a long history of utilization as a fiber and seed crop in China, and its achenes ("seeds") as well as other plant parts have been recorded in Chinese medical texts for nearly 2000 years. While the primary applications of cannabis in Chinese medicine center around the use of the achenes, ancient indications for the female inflorescence, and other plant parts ...

introduction: with increasing production of health information, information technologies have been used for better management and usage of such data. this enormous increase in gathering and storing of information and widespread accessibility also concerns individuals regarding privacy and security of information. this research is concerned with this issue due to decisions on establishing indivi...