The unripe fruits of certain species are red. Some of these species disperse their seeds by wind (Nerium oleander, Anabasis articulata), others by adhering to animals with their spines (Emex spinosa) or prickles (Hedysarum spinosissimum). Certainly neither type uses red coloration as advertisement to attract the seed dispersing agents. Fleshy-fruited species (Rhamnus alaternus, Rubus sanguineus...

Background. Outbreaks of the West Nile virus infection were reported in Morocco in 1996, 2003, and 2010. Culex pipiens was strongly suspected as the vector responsible for transmission. In the North center of Morocco, this species has developed resistance to synthetic insecticides. There is an urgent need to find alternatives to the insecticides as natural biocides. Objective. In this work, the...

Assessment of the flammability of ornamental vegetation (particularly hedges) planted around houses is necessary in light of the increasing urbanization of the wildland-urban interfaces (WUIs) and the high fire occurrence in such areas. The structure and flammability of seven of the species most frequently planted as hedges in Provence (southeastern France) were studied at particle level. Spati...

Background & Aim:  Investigation use of medical plants and industrial utilization of phytomedicines is necessary in veterinary medicine. Field investigation of use of medical plants in treatment of diseases of sheep and goat was the aim of present study. Martial & Methods: This study was done in southern area of Ilam province at 2008. At first, question sheet was designed for 36 diseases and c...

In this study, plant oils of Hypericum perforatum, Sesamum indicum, Nigella sative were investigated for their in vitro antibacterial activity against Vibrio anguillarum and Lactococcus garvieae. Antibacterial activity was found to show with oil of Nigella sative. It was determined formed on the diameter of inhibition (inhibition zone: 18 mm) of the oil against Vibrio anguillarum and Lactococcu...

Young children are strikingly good at learning the meanings of words, even under conditions of limited exposure. In Markson and Bloom (1997), we suggest that this `fast mapping' ability is not special to word learning. Children who heard a novel object described, in passing, as `a koba' remembered which object the word referred to when tested a month later. However, children who heard a novel o...

This article is about my memories from the discovery[1, 2, 3, 4] that the Veneziano model[5] described in fact interacting strings. I came to the understanding that the dual or Veneziano model is really a model of strings independently of Susskind[3] and Nambu[4]. A characteristic feature of my approach [1, 2] was that I used thinking of very high order “fishnet” or planar Feynman diagrams as t...

Oroxylum indicum (L.) Kurz a well know and pharmaceutically explored medicinal plant of the family Bignoniaceae but in context cytological work, meagre information is available on same plant. During present investigation six accessions O. were studied for understanding male meiosis related events using standard techniques. Although, meiotic course was found to be regular, anomalies such as chro...

An unstable anthraquinone was isolated from hairy root cultures of Sesamum indicum after preventing light throughout all experimental procedures. The structure of the (Z)-isomer of a previously isolated anthraquinone was determined to be 2-[(Z)-4-methylpenta-1,3-dien-1-yl]anthraquinone by spectroscopic methods. This compound was readily isomerized to the known (E)-isomer under light.