Abstract Domestication of wild plant species interest coupled with introduction pilot cultivation practices and appropriate fertilization schemes could be an efficient alternative for addressing sustainable exploitation needs threatened and/or declining phytogenetic resources. In this field study focusing on four wild-growing plants ( Carlina diae , Origanum dictamnus microphyllum Sideritis syr...

The discovery that the monoclonal anti-tubulin antibody YOL 1/34 recognizes a microtubule organizing centre, the blepharoplast (which arises de novo during the latter stages of spermatogenesis in the fern, Platyzoma microphyllum), has enabled us to follow it and associated microtubules throughout most of its ontogeny. By correlating electron-microscopic and immunofluorescence observations, YOL ...

background: fasciolosis is an important health and veterinary problem in iran. the epidemiological pattern of disease has been changed markedly in recent years and there are regions that have potent capacity to be new focus of the disease.  one of these areas is yasuj district in southwest of iran where animal fasciolosis has been quite common. the current study was conducted to determine the s...

The study investigated the antibacterial activity of crude extracts of C. edwardsii, Combretum krausii, and Maytenus nemorosa as well as their interactions with selected antibiotics against drug resistant bacterial strains. Using the rapid p-iodonitrotetrazolium chloride colorimetric assay, minimum inhibitory concentration values of plant extracts and antibiotics were determined. The interactio...

We studied 15 riparian and upland Sonoran desert species to evaluate how the limitation of xylem pressure (Ψ(x)) by cavitation corresponded with plant distribution along a moisture gradient. Riparian species were obligate riparian trees (Fraxinus velutina, Populus fremontii, and Salix gooddingii), native shrubs (Baccharis spp.), and an exotic shrub (Tamarix ramosissima). Upland species were eve...