used as an anti-inflammatory herbal medicine in China. We found that L. japonica produced in Henan and Shandong Provinces has the most potent anti-inflammatory effect. The herbs grown in these two provinces are recognized as geo-authentic and possess a higher content of therapeutically effective components in the flowers. The ecological factors for the cultivation of geo-authentic L. japonica h...

in order to study the effect of water deficit stress and different nitrogen levels on flower yield, yield components and water use efficiency of calendula officinalis l., an experiment was conducted as split plot based on randomized complete block design with three replications, at research field of islamic azad university, birjand branch in 2009. in this experiment, irrigation treatments (irri...

In order to evaluate the effect of medium and spraying calcium nano-fertilizer on quality of cut gerbera flowers, an experiment was conducted as factorial in completely randomized design with 7 media and 3 calcium nano-fertilizer concentrations with 3 replications. The media included cocopeat + perlite (1:1), peat moss + perlite (1:1), mushroom compost + perlite (1:1), peat moss + cocopeat + pe...

BACKGROUND Magnolia grandiflora L. flower is wildly used in Asian as a traditional herbal medication. The purpose of the study was to investigate the antimelanogenic and antioxidant properties of Magnolia grandiflora L. flower extract. In the study, the inhibitory effects of M. grandiflora L. flower extract on mushroom tyrosinase, B16F10 intracellular tyrosinase activity and melanin content wer...

Flower classification is a useful way for grouping a flower in certain class using specific features. This research propose a new method of flower classification system using combination of color and texture features. The first phase is getting the crown of the flower, which is localized from a flower image by using pillbox filtering and OTSU’s thresholding. In the next phase, color and texture...

In order to elucidate the correlation of temperature and the effect of gibberellin spray on the development of flower-buds in Cryptomeria japonica cultivar Kumotooshi, experiments were done in controlled environmental condition during 1970-1971. The following points were observed: 1. The male flower-buds were formed maximum in the temperature range of 25°C-30°C and their formation decreased wit...

in order to investigate the effects of high corm planting density and applying manure on flower and corm yields of saffron (crocus sativus l.), a field experiment was conducted at research station, faculty of agriculture, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran, during growing season of 2010-2011. a completely randomized block design with three replications and 20 treatments was used. the experime...

Rafflesia is a biologically enigmatic species that is very rare in occurrence and possesses an extraordinary morphology. This parasitic plant produces a gigantic flower up to one metre in diameter with no leaves, stem or roots. However, little is known about the floral biology of this species especially at the molecular level. In an effort to address this issue, we have generated and characteri...