Plant-pollinator systems may be considered as biological markets in which pollinators choose between different flowers that advertise their nectar/pollen rewards. Although expected to play a major role in structuring plant-pollinator interactions, community-wide patterns of flower scent signals remain largely unexplored. Here we show for the first time that scent advertisement is higher in plan...

Chemical fungicides are an important component in disease management for most crops. As part of a program to discover natural product-based fungicides, several sensitive assay systems have been developed for the evaluation of naturally occurring antifungal agents. In this study, we focused on the discovery and evaluation of new natural product-based fungicides from Angelica sinensis (Dong Quai)...

The chemical composition, and antimicrobial and anti-wood-decay fungal activities of the essential oils isolated from the leaves and twigs of Litsea acutivena of Taiwan were investigated. The essential oils from the fresh leaves and twigs were isolated using hydrodistillation in a Clevenger-type apparatus, and characterized by GC-FID and GC-MS. Ninety-five and fifty-two compounds were identifie...

The chemical compositions were determined by the leaf essential oils of 2 Vietnamese plants, Piper betle f. densum and Disepalum plagioneurum. main classes in P oil sesquiterpene hydrocarbons (30.1%) oxygenated sesquiterpenes (60.1%), with γ-elemene (12.7%), valeranone (9.3%), ishwarone (6.0%) being principal compounds. plagioneurum was dominated monoterpene (23.9%) (59.8%). Bicyclogermacrene (...

The reproductive organs of some plants self-heat, release scent, and attract pollinators. The relations among these processes are not well understood, especially in the more ancient, nonflowering gymnosperm lineages. We describe the influence of plant volatiles in an obligate pollination mutualism between an Australian Macrozamia cycad (a gymnosperm with male and female individuals) and its spe...

objective: this study is designed to extract and examine chemical composition, antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of the hydro-distillated essential oil of murraya koenigii leaves from the south region of tamilnadu, india. matherials and methods: gas chromatography (gc) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (gc-ms) analysis of the essential oil result was indicates the 33 different compo...