Globally, grassland soils, if managed properly, are important for the sake of carbon sequestration. The quality and quantity of soil organic carbon is probably influenced by vegetation traits such as composition and plant species. We determined the influence of vegetation composition and co-dominant species on soil organic carbon in two Prangus uloptera stands. The stands situated at close prox...

medicinal plant species constitute a considerable part of the flora in iran and play a major role in the composition of plant communities. therefore, it is necessary to recognize the factors leading to the establishment and distribution of vegetation. for data sampling (2012), land units were specified. the plot size was determined using minimal area method and number of plots was determined by...

diabetes mellitus is one of the most common diseases affecting the endocrine system. the prevalence of diabetes mellitus will be increasing in the human population. it is a metabolic disease characterized by chronic escalation of blood glucose and disrupted metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and proteins. this was an experimental study conducted on 40 male wistar rats. this study was carried out...

the essential oil of prangos ferulacea (apiaceae) fruits was obtained by hydrodistillation and analyzed by gas chromatography (gc) and gc-mass spectrometery (ms). among the 39 identified constituents accounting for 99.99% of the total oil, the major components were chrysanthenyl acetate (26.53%), limonene (19.59%), alpha pinene (19.50%), delta-3-carene (6.56%), mesitaldehyde (6.09), and germacr...

objective(s) as an important class of natural products, coumarins exhibit many biological activities and the diversity of their bioactivity is so huge that the pharmacological promiscuity has been applied on their case. oxypeucedanine also named as prangolarin is a linear furanocoumarin with an oxygenated prenylated substitution at c-5 of the nucleus. to our knowledge, there are few reports on ...

Prangos ferulacea (L). Lindl. Erzurum ili ve çevrelerinde halk arasında tıbbi gıda amaçlı olarak kullanılan bir bitkidir. Özellikle şehrin kuzey taraflarında her yılın Mayıs ayında toplanan P. (Yöresel adı Çaşır, Çakşır) yaprakları salamura yapılarak tüm yıl boyunca tüketilmektedir. Bu çalışmada araziden bitkinin kurutulup 6 farklı çözücü ile (su, metanol, %70 meoh, hekzan, kloroform, aseton) e...