Broomrapes (Orobanche and Phelipanche species) are holoparasitic weeds that infect roots of crop hosts from Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Apiaceae, Fabaceae, Solanaceae. The parasitic difficult to control selectively without damage once attached their roots. Identification natural compounds with herbicidal activity against pre-attached broomrape stages can provide alternatives. With the aim identif...

Aim The Sino-Japanese Floristic Region has extremely high species diversity with respect to temperate plants; however, the reasons for this are poorly understood because most studies have only considered geographic isolation caused by climatic oscillations. In some plant groups, floral trait and uneven between insular systems continental area suggest other factors may important roles too. prima...

A rapid, sensitive and selective liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry was developed to determine two epimeric furofuran lignans (sesamin and asarinin) simultaneously from Asarum heterotropoides extract in rat plasma. Simple protein precipitation with acetonitrile was performed to extract analytes by using alantolactone as an internal standard. Chromatographic separation was achieved u...

Most Aristolochiaceae plants are prohibited due to aristolochic acid nephropathy (AAN), except Xixin (Asarum spp.). contains trace amounts of (AA) and is widely used in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Methylglyoxal d-lactate regarded as biomarkers for nephrotoxicity. The use spp.) essential controversial. This study aimed evaluate tubulointerstitial injury interstitial renal fibrosis by determini...