Most flowers display distinct colour patterns comprising two different areas. The peripheral large-area component of floral colour patterns attracts flower visitors from some distance and the central small-area component guides flower visitors towards landing sites. Whereas the peripheral colour is largely variable among species, the central colour, produced mostly by anthers and pollen or poll...

The popularity of edible flowers is increasing day by and new solutions are sought due to their short shelf life. For this purpose, in study, four different colors Viola × wittrockiana Gams.; white (Fino Clear White), orange (Delta Pure Orange), bordeaux/mauve rose (Mammoth Rocky Rose), yellow Premium Lemon) were dried at drying air temperature 60, 70, 80 °C with a convective hot dryer. Color (...

based on the valuable antioxidant activity of citrus fruits, in present study the effect of ‎rootstock and the type of tissue on some fruit quality parameters including phenol, ‎flavonoid, antioxidant and the content of hesperidin and naringin of orange and mandarin ‎was studied. the experiment was conducted as a factorial design based on complete ‎randomized blocks with four replications. resu...

Primula veris L. is an important medicinal plant with documented use for the treatment of gout, headache and migraine reaching back to the Middle Ages. Triterpenoid saponins from roots and flowers are used in up-to-date phytotherapeutic treatment of bronchitis and colds due to their expectorant and secretolytic effects. In addition to the wild type plants with yellow petals, a red variant and a...

Rosella flowers are able to provide a moisturizing and smoothing effect because they contain many substances that useful for the skin, rosella also synonymous with sour taste so it gives fresh sensation. In this study, ethanolic extract of used was at concentration 2%, 2.5%, 3%, 5%. This type research is experimental using pre-test post-test control group design. The sample flower lotion (Hibis...

The levels of abscisic acid (ABA) and alkaline-hydrolyzable ABAconjugate (putatively identified as the glucosyl ester, abscisyl-,8-D-glucopyranoside) were determined by enzyme immunoassay in the organs of developing navel orange (Citrus sinensis [L.] Osbeck cv Washington) flowers. Although both compounds were detected in every tissue, developmentally related differences between organs in the to...