Background and Purpose: Despite the availability of various treatments for fungal diseases, there are some limitations in the management of these conditions due to multiple treatment-related side-effects. The present study was designed to investigate the antifungal properties of different extracts from Pistacia atlantica Desf. Materials and Methods: Different parts of P. atlantica (i.e., dried ...

Ecophysiological characteristics of "Ahmadaghaii" "Ohadi" "Kallehghuchi" cultivars (as scions) on four pistachio rootstocks (Pistacia vera Cv. Badami riz, P. vera Cv. Sarakhs, P. atlantica sub sp. Mutica, P. atlantica sub sp. Atlantica) were evaluated during the spring and summer seasons of 2005 in the Iran's Pistachio Research Institute (IPRI). Ecophysiological characteristics such as photosyn...

Scutellaria is widely used in traditional medicine as a medical plant, in Asian countries, especially in China. It has been applied in treatment because of its sedative, antithrombotic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antiviral effects. Scutellaria condensata Rech. f. subsp. pycnotricha (Rech. f.) Rech. f. is a wild perennial plant which  grows in Iran. In this study, GC-FID and GC-MS were ...

morphological and morphometric characters of two species of superfamily sphaerularioidea, recovered in southwestern iran namely deladenus durus and prothallonema obtusum are given. the recovered specimens of d. durus are characterized by having a valvular chamber in metacorpus and excretory pore posterior to the hemizonid.the iranian population of p. obtusum is characterized by having four line...

The paper presents descriptions of three new botanical varieties the type subspecies durum wheat ( Triticum Desf. subsp. ), namely convar. subconvar. muticum (Orlov) Dorof. et Filat. var. muticomelanopus Lyapun.; T. caucasicum (Dorof.) cauafricanum and muticocauafricanum Lyapun.). Also, forms are described: duru m durocompactum Flaksb. rubrinigrum (Stol.) f. tristerubrinigrum falcatum (Jakubz.)...

A field survey was carried out to record plant species climbed by Ephedra alte in certain parts of Jordan during 2008-2010. Forty species of shrubs, ornamental, fruit, and forest trees belonging to 24 plant families suffered from the climbing habit of E. alte. Growth of host plants was adversely affected by E. alte growth that extended over their vegetation. In addition to its possible competit...