Plant mitochondrial (mt) genomes possess several complex features, including a variable size, a dynamic genome structure, and complicated patterns of gene loss and gain throughout evolutionary history. Studies of plant mt genomes can, therefore, provide unique insights into organelle evolution. We assembled the complete Salix purpurea L. mt genome by screening genomic sequence reads generated b...

in ecology and evolution. In: Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, ecology, and evolution. Edited by Aaron M. Ellison and Lubomír Adamec: Oxford University Press (2018). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198779841.003.0024 et al. (1989) describes many of these species and their associations with S. purpurea; since 1989, over 200 papers have been published on S. purpurea or its inhabita...

Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench, a member of the Asteraceae family, is a plant rich in flavonoids, essential oils, phenolic compounds, saponins, polysaccharides and glycoproteins. The aim of the study was to evaluate the protein content in dried roots of Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench after homogenization of roots with liquid nitrogen, extraction in 0.01 mol L-1 phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) a...

Echinacea purpurea is a flower that rich in its main antioxidant content comes from flavonoids, phenols, and cystic acids can be utilized as an immunomodulator during the Covid-19 pandemic. Ekinase flowers are processed into new innovations nutraceutical products with Ekino Ice product label. Goal to innovate made dry immunomodulators era of This research uses laboratory experimental methods qu...

The investigation of ultradiluted (homeopathic) drugs is extremely interesting and challenging, and from that point of view this study shows novelty. A study of in vivo changes in heart rate of the Indian Bufo melanostictus caused by commercially available serially ultra-diluted and agitated extract of Digitalis purpurea has been tried in order to understand their pharmacological role. RR inter...

Background Echinacea purpurea, a purple coneflower plant of the compositae family (Asteraceae), is native to North America and commonly used as an herbal supplement to enhance immune function. Echinacea purpurea has been shown to stimulate macrophage activity which is a known stimulator of nitric oxide (NO) production. Echinacea purpurea supplementation (8,000 mg·d) in untrained (42.5 ± 1.6 mL·...

objectives: ticks are vectors of several diseases, of which many are zoonosis transmissible to humans. the use of tephrosia leafs’ extract as a low cost acaricide is spreading among farmers in central kenya. materials and methods: the present study’s aim is to inventory endogenous control methods against dogs’ ticks among which rhipicephalus sanguineus, in the municipality of abomey-calavi. fro...

On the basis of its close phylogenetic relationship to Lamprocystis roseopersicina, the phototrophic purple sulfur bacterium originally described as Amoebobacter purpureus and recently transferred to Pfennigia purpurea is reclassified as Lamprocystis purpurea comb. nov. In addition, an emended description of the genus Lamprocystis is given.

Evidence supports the theory that bacterial communities colonizing Echinacea purpurea contribute to the innate immune enhancing activity of this botanical. Previously, we reported that only about half of the variation in in vitro monocyte stimulating activity exhibited by E. purpurea extracts could be accounted for by total bacterial load within the plant material. In the current study, we test...