BACKGROUND The plant genus Fallopia is well-known in Chinese traditional medicine and includes many species that contain bioactive compounds, namely phytoestrogens. Consumption of phytoestrogens may be linked to decreased incidence of breast and prostate cancers therefore discovery of novel phytoestrogens and novel sources of phytoestrogens is of interest. Although phytoestrogen content has bee...

Convolvulus arvensis L. Scop. (field bindweed) is a difficult weed to manage in organic cropping systems. suppression often requires intensive tillage and cultivation practices that have negative impacts on soil quality. To improve C. management organic, small grain systems, we compared ten system treatments field trial from the autumn of 2017 until harvest 2020 Corvallis, MT, USA. Cropping var...

on Materia Medica was compiled by Mir Muhammad Hussain, a native of Khorasan and pupil of Mir Muhammad Ali-el-Husaini. He resided first in Khorasan, then in Shiraz, and afterwards in India, principally at Murshidabad, in Bengal. He tells us in his preface that, in A. H. 1185 (A. D. 1771), lie was persuaded to undertake the compilation of a Persian Pharmacopoeia, and that when this was completed...