The study aimed at identifying the plants of Bousaada district M'sila province, South East Algeria, used by local people as traditional medicines and analyzing their use value. ethnomedicinal information was collected interviewing informants using structured questionnaires through regular field surveys. A total 193 species belonging to 69 families identified. Lamiaceae Asteraceae were most comm...

the distribution of phytophthora parsiana a high-temperature tolerant newly described species was studied in southern iran and examined its host range in woody perennial plant species in greenhouse condition under high inoculum potential. among different plant species examined, almonds were highly susceptible by different isolates. from 24 woody plants inoculated, the disease severity in descen...

It has been reported that latex and extracts of different species of Ficus are cytotoxic to some human cancerous cell lines. In this study, cytotoxicity of fruit and leaf extracts as well as the latex of Ficuscarica L. on HeLa cell line were evaluated. ethanolic extracts of leaves and fruits were prepared through percolation and ethyl acetate and dichloromethane extracts were prepared by reflux...

Anatolia is of great importance in terms researching plants used as traditional folk medicine, Turkey has a rich flora biological diversity and hosted many ancient civilizations. This study, it aimed to scientifically determine the by people treatment for women's diseases health compile local information about them. Within scope this literatures were reviewed. In general studies, been seen that...

Fig fruit has been a typical component in the health-promoting Mediterranean diet for millennia. To study the potential health-promoting constituents of fig fruits, six commercial fig varieties differing in color (black, red, yellow, and green) were analyzed for total polyphenols, total flavonoids, antioxidant capacity, and amount and profile of anthocyanins. Using reversed-phase liquid chromat...

Increasing international trade and tourism have led to an increase in the introduction of exotic pests that pose a considerable economic threat to the agro-ecosystems of importing countries. Scale insects (Sternorryncha: Coccoidea) may be contaminants of export consignments from the South African deciduous fruit industry to the European Union, Israel, United Kingdom and the United States, for e...