Bauhinia vahlii Wright & Arn is a huge climber native mainly to India and has been cultivated as an ornamental plant in different regions including Eygpt. It belongs family Fabaceae (Caesalpinaceae), which grows Sub-Himalayan region at altitude of 3000m above sea level Assam, Central India, Eastern Western Ghats. The herb extensively utilised numerous traditional medical practises, Ayurveda, Un...

Thrombosis is one of the leading cause of thromboembolic disorders affecting million persons worldwide. Several plants used for the treatment of thromboembolic diseases in different systems of traditional medicine have shown anticoagulant/antithrombotic activity and such plants claimed in the traditional system still remain to be scientifically investigated. The review explored various herbal d...

Antibiotic resistance results in higher medical costs, prolonged hospital stays and increased mortality and is rising to dangerously high levels in all parts of the world. Therefore, this study aims to search for new antimicrobial agents through bioprospecting of extracts of endophytic fungi from Bauhinia guianensis, a typical Amazonian plant used in combating infections. Seventeen (17) fungi w...

This study investigated the effects of some plant extracts on the bacterial communication system, expressed as quorum sensing (QS) activity. Quorum sensing has a directly proportional effect on the amount of certain compounds, such as pigments, produced by the bacteria. Alcohol extracts of 23 ornamental and medicinal plants were tested for anti-QS activity by the Chromobacterium violaceum assay...

Endophytic fungi are fungi that colonize internal tissues of plants; several biologically active compounds have been isolated from these fungi. There are few studies of compounds isolated from endophytic fungi of Amazon plants. Thus, this study aimed the isolation and structural identification of ergosterol (1), ergosterol peroxide (2), mevalonolactone (3), cytochalasin B (4) and cytochalasin H...

(Ultrastructural analysis of in vitro direct and indirect organogenesis). This is a comparative study of the ultrastructural characteristics of the cells involved in the organogenesis in vitro of Bauhinia forficata Link (indirect system) and Glycine max (L.) Merrill (direct system). B. forficata calli after 30 days culture and G. max meristemoids after 10 days culture were prepared for ultrastr...