Tamarix is one kind of shrub which is widespread species in sand and saline land in arid and semi-arid regions. Tamarix has been paid more attentions for its unique physiological and ecological features, and important socioeconomic effects. In order to study the biomass and growth status of Tamarix, we need to measure the morphological parameters (e.g. height, perimeter of canopy). However, the...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The extant species of the seed plant group Gnetales (Ephedra, Gnetum and Welwitschia) have been considered a remnant of a much greater, now extinct, diversity due to the pronounced differences in form and ecology among the genera. Until recently, this hypothesis has not been supported by evidence from the fossil record. This paper adds to the expanding information on Gnetale...

Crotolaria ramosissima is a weed plant belonging to the family Leguminoseae. It is a much branched sticky woody herb. The flowers are yellow tinged with purple. It is distributed in some places of Tamilnadu and coastal areas of Andrha Pradesh. The plant contains waxes, and, when flowering, a yellow exudate appears in the inflorescences. Recently, we published the corrected structure of crotaram...

We examined the impact climate change (CC) will have on the availability of climatically suitable habitat for three native and one exotic riparian species. Due to its increasing prevalence in arid regions throughout the western US, we predicted that an exotic species, Tamarix, would have the greatest increase in suitable habitat relative to native counterparts under CC. We used an ecological ni...

The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) has become one of the hotspots for phylogeographical studies due to its high species diversity. However, most previous studies have focused on the effects of the Quaternary glaciations on phylogeographical structures and the locations of glacial refugia, and little is known about the effects of the aridization of interior Asia on plant population structure and ...

used in Chinese and Japanese traditional (Kampo) medicines. Although about 35 species belonging to the genus Ephedra are distributed in Eurasia, North America, and South America, only a few species contain pharmacologically active ephedrine alkaloids and are used for medicinal purposes. The Japanese Pharmacopoeia defines Ephedra Herb as dried aerial parts of Ephedra sinica, E. intermedia and E....