Zebrafish have recently emerged as an attractive model for the in vivo bioassay-guided isolation and characterization of pharmacologically active small molecules of natural origin. We carried out a zebrafish-based phenotypic screen of over 3000 plant-derived secondary metabolite extracts with the goal of identifying novel small-molecule modulators of the BMP and Wnt signaling pathways. One of t...

Crosses among single-, double- and multi-petal jasmine cultivars (Jasminum sambac Aiton) are unable to easily generate hybrids. To identify the reproductive barriers restricting hybrid set, dynamic changes in jasmine pollen viability and pistil receptivity were compared at different flowering stages. Pollen-pistil interactions in six reciprocal crosses were also investigated to characterize pol...

during the years 2007 and 2008, samples of winter jasmine (jasminum nudiflorum) with symptoms of galls on shoots were collected from shiraz, fars province, iran. gram and oxidase negative, aerobic bacterium that produced fluorescent pigment on kingۥs b medium was isolated from galls of infected trees. all isolates produced a hypersensitive reaction in tobacco. they were negative in arginine dih...

In the Present study, aqueous and ethanol extracts of Jasminum sambac leaves were evaluated for its wound healing activity in the ointment dosage form in excision wound model using albino mice. The leaves of Jasminum sambac L. (Family Oleaceae) were subjected to continuous extraction with solvents; ethanol and water. The extracts were tested for various preliminary phytoconstituents and screene...

Based on the floristic study of rust fungus flora (Uredinales) ofGolestan National Park, located in the Northeast of Iran, 68 rust taxa were recognized. Of these, one subspecies and five species viz. Phragmidium sanguisorbae subsp. mediterraneum on Sanguiosorba minor, Puccinia difformis on Galium aparine, P. jasmini on Jasminum fruticans, P. rhylismoides on Thalictrum isopyroides, Uromyces mogi...