BACKGROUND New viruses pathogenic to plants continue to emerge due to mutation, recombination, or reassortment among genomic segments among individual viruses. Tospoviruses cause significant economic damage to a wide range of crops in many parts of the world. The genetic or molecular basis of the continued emergence of new tospoviruses and new hosts is not well understood though it is generally...

Background: Datura contains a mixture of anticholinergic agents (alkaloids such as atropine, scopolamine and hyoscyamine) that are responsible for its pharmacological actions. The objective was to evaluate the effect stramonium in testes wistar rats. Methods: Twenty (20) adult male rats weight ranging from 106g-180g were distributed into five groups (A-E) four (4) animals each. Animals administ...

background: the use of natural products as anticancer and antioxidant agents has a long history. several drugs currently used in chemotherapy were isolated from plant species. objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate cytotoxicity and antioxidant activity as well as phenol and flavonoid contents of five plant species of solanaceae family. methods: five plant species of solanaceae family ...

Datura Stramonium (DS) is a in our country; it grows wild rural areas without the need for agriculture. DS can also be used as herbal medicine respiratory system diseases such asthma and bronchitis, hemorrhoids dermatological eczema. It may lead to anticholinergic symptoms mydriasis, tachycardia, dry skin, flushing urinary retention humans due its atropine content, when affects central nervous ...

We posed the question of whether steady-state levels of the higher polyamines spermidine and spermine in plants can be influenced by overexpression of a heterologous cDNA involved in the later steps of the pathway, in the absence of any further manipulation of the two synthases that are also involved in their biosynthesis. Transgenic rice (Oryza sativa) plants engineered with the heterologous D...

About this time a police constable brought to the dispensary a woman named Peary, aged about 30 years, and she gave the following account of their case:?She said " Bahadoor Aly wont to my house at about 5J p.m. in the evening. I gave him some milk and sweetmeats, which had been given to me by a sepoy to take. Ho (Bahadoor Aly) took all the milk, and nearly four-fifths of the sweetmeats. The rem...

The use of stramonium m post-encepnaimc conditions, especially for Parkinsonian rigidity and mental apathy, has not received the attention it deserves from the medical profession. With a daily dose of stramonium the patient's life may be rendered comparatively happy. With it, he may be enabled to accomplish the fundamental necessities of life, to walk, dress and feed himself, to write and even ...