Medicinal herbs have a rich history of their utilization for variety ailments. India is categorized among those countries which produced vast medicinal plants. also called as “Botanical garden the world”. plants are source discovery new drugs across world. Most available today some herbal content in them. Rubia Cordifolia (Manjishtha) climber herb having small flowers greenish white colour grou...

It has been suggested that the rol genes of Agrobacterium rhizogenes could play an essential role in the activation of secondary metabolite production in plant transformed cultures. This study investigated whether the content of anthraquinone phytoalexins was changed in callus cultures of Rubia cordifolia transgenic for the 35S-rolB and 35S-rolC genes in comparison with a non-transformed callus...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii are common nosocomial pathogens, well recognized for their multidrug resistance. Acyl-homoserine lactone (Acyl-HSL) based Quorum sensing (QS) is known to regulate virulence and biofilm maturation in these organisms; hence, inhibition of QS will help to control their pathogenicity. In the study, 5 plants, Rubia cordifolia, Tinospora cordifolia, ...

Effect of alcoholic extract of roots of Rubia cordifolia was studied on elevated blood glucose level in alloxan treated animals. The extract reduced the blood sugar level raised by alloxan. Effect of alcoholic extract was also investigated on cold restraint induced stress and on scopolamine-induced memory impairment. Alcoholic extract enhanced brain gamma-amino-n-butyric acid (GABA) levels and ...

The present study was taken up as an exploratory study to test if some natural dyes have inherent antimicrobial activity with a view to develop protective clothing from these. Four natural dyes Acacia catechu, Kerria lacca, Quercus infectoria, Rubia cordifolia and Rumex maritimus were tested against common pathogens Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus vulgaris an...

In this study the effect of four levels of nitrogen fertilizer (0, 50, 100, 150) kg/ha and four levels of super phosphate triple (0, 50, 100, 150) kg/ha were investigated on Rubia Inctorum L. (madder) under salinity stress. A factorial experiment was carried out in a research farm in Roaddasht, Isfahan based on complete randomized blocks with three replications. The results of the variance anal...