BACKGROUND Medicinal plants are possible sources for future novel antioxidant compounds in food and pharmaceutical formulations. Recent attention on medicinal plants emanates from their long historical utilisation in folk medicine as well as their prophylactic properties. However, there is a dearth of scientific data on the efficacy and stability of the bioactive chemical constituents in medici...

Abstract This study emphasized on the identification and detection secondary metabolism compounds different of volatile oils by Gas Chromatography Technique Ocimum basilicum L. Mentha spicata L plant from Labiate (Lamiaceae) family cultivated in Iraq suxhlet apparatus. medicinal importment acquired this to know active compound oil was identified extract aerial parts Mass, The result showed that...

Plants release volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that have many eco-physiological functions. Induction of plant VOCs is known to occur upon herbivory. Herbivore-induced VOCs are involved in the attraction of predators and parasitoids, a phenomenon known as an indirect defense of plants. We measured the VOC profiles of the wild species Veronica spicata with and without larval feeding and oviposi...

Green silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and crude ethanolic, methanolic, aqueous, acetonic extracts from leaves of Agave americana, Mentha spicata, Mangifera indica were scrutinized for possible antineoplastic cytotoxic efficacy. In this study, all the synthesized AgNPs characterized using UV-Vis spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, SEM (scanning electron microscopy), TEM (transmission EDX-spectroscopy,...

The vine mealybug, Planococcus ficus (Signoret) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae), is a pest in grape vine growing areas worldwide. The essential oils from the following aromatic plants were tested for their insecticidal activity against P. ficus: peppermint, Mentha piperita L. (Lamiales: Lamiaceae), thyme-leaved savory, Satureja thymbra L., lavender, Lavandula angustifolia Mill, and basil, Ocimum ba...