Parthenium weed (Parthenium hysterophorus L.) is an internationally important invasive native to the tropical and sub-tropical Americas, in more than 30 countries. This has serious adverse influences on rangeland agricultural crop production, human animal health, biodiversity of natural communities. leaf litter can reduce seedling emergence affect early growth a wide range pasture species. Soil...

In the present investigation five pathogenic fungal isolates such as Alternaria alternata, Alternaria macrospora MKP2, Alternaria macrospora MKP4 Alternaria sp. PMK1 and Alternaria sp. PMK2, were isolated from diseased leaves of parthenium plant and found to be pathogenic to this weed. Isolated pathogens were screened qualitatively and quantitatively for lignocellulolytic activities. All the fu...

Background: Giardiasis is a one of the most prevalent intestinal parasitic diseases in human, treatment of this disease through medicinal plants is very important since parasite resistance to chemical drugs exists. Thus, in this study, the in vitro anti-giardial activity of chloroformic extract of Tanacetum parthenium and Artemisia annua on cyst and trophozoite of Giardia lamblia were separatel...

This paper presents the results of an ethnobotanical study centred in veterinarian uses in two Catalan Pyrenean regions (Alt Empordà -AE- and High River Ter Valley -AT-, Iberian peninsula) and two Balearic Islands areas (Formentera -FO- and northeastern Mallorca -MA-). In the areas studied, 97 plant species have been claimed to be useful for veterinary purposes. A total of 306 veterinary use re...

Using online narratives to explore participant experiences in a residential environmental education program Nicole M. Ardoin, Maria DiGiano, Kathleen O'Connor & Nicole Holthuis a Graduate School of Education and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA b Earth Innovation Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA c Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Sta...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Principal plants that have contributed to the development of modern analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs 2.1. Papaver somniferum 2.2. Salix species 2.3. Cannabis sativa 2.4. Capsicum sp. 2.5. Panax ginseng 2.6. Tanacetum parthenium 2.7. Aconitum sp. 3. New plant-derived substances with potential antinociceptive or anti-inflammatory properties 3.1 Siphocampylus verti...

the roots and rhizomes of tanacetum parthenium (l.) schulz. bip. (asteraceae), have been used in iranian traditional medicine under the name of aqhovan, as digestive and stomachic tonic. composition of the essential oil, which was obtained from the root of t. parthenium collected from karaj, was determined by gas chromatography, combined gc/ms and gc/ir. in total, 20 components (92% of essentia...