A commercially available microbial inoculant (Plant Growth Activator Plus) that contains 50 microorganisms, primarily bacteria, was evaluated in a soilless container substrate to determine its effects on root bacterial populations and growth response of container-grown plants at three fertilizer rates. The tropical ornamental plants included hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis ‘Double Red’), spath...

The effects of anthocyanin-free aqueous extract Hibiscus sabdariffa petal on body weight gain, organ/body ratio and selected toxicological indices in cadmium intoxicated male rats were examined. When compared to cadmium-free extract-free control ,cadmium caused significant (P < 0.05) decreases prostate/body testis/body ratios .Prostatic acid phosphatase activity (only prostate) catalase acti...

Abstract Two woody Hibiscus species co-occur in the Bonin Islands of the northwestern Pacific Ocean: Hibiscus glaber Matsum. is endemic to the islands, and its putative ancestral species, Hibiscus tiliaceus L., is widely distributed in coastal areas of the tropics and subtropics. To infer isolating mechanisms that led to speciation of H. glaber and the processes that resulted in co-occurrence o...

Nowadays beverages are consumed which has high bioactive compound. Both cocoa and Hibiscus-flower extract have antioxidant effect their combined increases the free radical scavenging potentials of beverages. Hibiscus Sabdariffa various such as Anti-hypertensive effect, Anti-oxidant Diuretic Anti-spasmodic etc. The dried flower is used to prepare Tea, Syrup, Jams-jellies phytochemicals studies f...

The present study was designed to investigate whether maternal consumption of aqueous extract of Hibiscus sabdariffa (HS) during lactation will affect the postnatal growth and onset of puberty in the female offspring. Eighteen in-bred virgin female Sprague-Dawley rats aged between 10-12 weeks and weighing 125 +/- 5.5g (mean +/- SEM) with two consecutive regular 4-day estrus cycles were randomly...

The effects of cadmium alone and that plus aqueous extract the calyx Hibiscus sabdariffa Linn on organ gravimetry lipid profile African catfish (Clarias gariepinus) have been examined. treatments did not alter brain-, gill- liver- body weight ratios when compared to extract- free group, control. Relative control brain gill homogenates‘ total- LDL-cholesterol concentrations were significantly (P...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the anticancer activity of 10 selected traditional Chinese medicinal plants on 4 cancer cell lines, namely MCF-7 (breast carcinoma), BALL-1 (acute lymphoblastic leukemia), Huh-7 (hepatocellular carcinoma), HeLa (cervical carcinoma) and their cytotoxicity on a normal cell line, namely MCF-10A (non-tumorigenic mammary epithelial line), about which...

This study was aimed at investigating the cardiovascular effects of an Olea europea L. leaf extract (OEE), of a Hibiscus sabdariffa L. flower extract (HSE), and of their 13 : 2 w/w mixture in order to assess their cardiac and vascular activity. Both extracts were fully characterized in their bioactive compounds by HPLC-MS/MS analysis. The study was performed using primary vascular endothelial c...