Seedling growth rates can have important long-term effects on forest dynamics. Environmental variables such as light availability and edaphic factors can exert a strong influence on seedling growth. In the wild, seedlings of Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis) grow on very acid soils (pH ∼4.3) in deeply shaded sites (∼3 % full sunlight). To examine the relative influences of these two factors on th...

The chemical variations of the essential oil from the aerial parts of Laurus nobilis L. (Lauraceae) have been studied. Plant material has been harvested at each phenological status (vegetative, before anthesis, full flowering and seed-bearing). The oils were obtained by hydrodistillation of the air-dried samples. Analysis by GC and GC-MS of the essential oils has allowed to identify 39 compound...

AIM/BACKGROUND The development of resistance to synthetic drugs by target organisms is a major challenge facing medicine, yet locked within plants are phytochemicals used in herbal medicine (especially in the Arabian Peninsula) that may find application in this regard. In pursuit of unlocking these "hidden treasures," the methanol extracts of leaves, aerial parts, fruits, and resins of 17 plant...

Laurus nobilis, commonly known as bay, is used in folk medicine a remedy for many ailments. The present study investigates the protective effect of L. nobilis leaves extract against high fat diet-induced type 2 diabetes rats. Animals were divided into group 1 (control), groups 2, 3, and 4 (bay aqueous (AQ) extracts; 50, 100, 250 mg/kg body weight, respectively), 5, 6, 7 methanol/acetone (MeAc) ...

Croatian records of the critically endangered Anthemis tomentosa are very scarce. One population was known, from southernmost Istria, within Significant Landscape Lower Kamenjak and Medulin Archipelago. First 19th century were regarded as dubious, but species finally confirmed on Rt Franina (surroundings Premantura) in end 90’ties. During our visits to southern we found four new localities this...