Indian medicinal plants traditionally used for the treatment of viral infections with high fever, arthritis, inflammation were investigated for their in vitro antiviral activity against the Asian and East Central South African lineage of Chikungunya virus. In vitro cytotoxic assay of aqueous, aqueous ethanolic and ethanolic extracts of Alpinia Galanga (L) Willd., Alpinia Officinarum Hance., And...

Three different injectors, each 25 mm in length and with diameters of 6, 4, and 3 mm, respectively, were tested with low-pressure injections of 250 ml of water into 23 different species of fruit-trees, woodland and ornamental trees at different times of year. The 6 and 4 mm injectors performed well, yielding uptake of 75±100% of water volume 1 or 48 h after injection, depending on the species; ...

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CARMEN EUGENIA STAVARACHE1*, JOHN MORRIS2, YASUAKI MAEDA3, IKUKO OYANE3, MIRCEA VINATORU1 1 ‘C. D. Nenitzescu’ Institute of Organic Chemistry, Spl. Independentzei, 202B, 060023 Bucharest, PO-Box 15-254, Romania 2 Syringa Bioscience (Pty) Ldt, Unit 8, Ferndale Industrial Park, 18 Lyn Road, Ferndale Ext. 4, Randburg, 2195, South Africa 3 College of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Gakuen...

The aim of this study was to carry out a survey of the flora with potential for beekeeping in the counties of Ubiratã and Nova Aurora-PR through the collection of plants and pollen analyses in honey samples collected monthly. 208 species of plants were recorded, distributed in 66 families. The families that showed the major richness of pollen types were: Asteraceae, Myrtaceae and Solanaceae. Ap...

Effect of aqueous leaf extracts of 8 allelopathic tree species viz., Accacia nilotica (L.) Willd ex Del., Alstonia scholaris (L.) R. Br., Azadirachta indica (L.) A. Juss., Eucalyptus citriodora Hook, Ficus bengalensis L., Mangifera indica L., Melia azedarach L. and Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels was studied on germination and seed-borne mycoflora of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Wheat seeds were s...