High-latitude plants are often more palatable to herbivores than low-latitude conspecifics. Does increased plant palatability lead to better herbivore performance? Our field and laboratory work investigated (A) whether high-latitude plants have traits indicating that they should be higher-quality foods for herbivores; (B) whether geographic differences in plant quality are more important than l...

yarrow (achillea spp.) belonging to the family of asteraceae with useful properties, such as anti-diaphoretic, anti-hemorrhagic, anti-inflammation, anti-biotic, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, carminative and anti-oxidant effects. the present investigation assessed the morphological diversity of achillea aucheri, which is indigenous plant from damavand mountain of iran. the samples were collected ...

Considering the global tendency towards using valuable secondary metabolites of plant origin, there is a need to optimize cultivation herbal plants, e.g., meadow arnica (A. chamissonis Less.). The inflorescences this species (Arnicae anthodium) have similar chemical composition and pharmacological activity that in mountain (Arnica montana L.), can be cultivated more easily than arnica. Therefor...

We would like to report a case of unilateral oleothorax, which generated great diagnostic difficulties and was initially interpreted as a lung mass, probably of neoplastic origin. An 84-year-old woman presented with a dry cough that had persisted for four months. A chest X-ray showed a mass in the right hemithorax (Figure 1A). Due to the suspicion of lung cancer, the patient underwent CT, and t...

Watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (thumb.) Matsum and Nakai] cv. Charleston gray was grafted onto three rootstocks: Cucurbita pepo, Lagenaria siceraria and (Cucurbita maxima x C. moshata). The non grafted watermelon plant was used as control. In this experiment efficiency of two kinds of grafting methods: Tube grafting and Hole insertion grafting and it was found that, Hole insertion grafting gave ...

Testing of candidates as clones would greatly benefit breeding of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), but has not been applied because of vegetative propgation of the species is difficult. With a common interest in Scots pine breeding, forest research institutions from Sweden, Finland, and Latvia (Skogforsk, Metla, and Silava, respectively) joined in a collaborative project to develop pine cuttin...

petroleum contamination of soil is a serious problem throughout the oil producer countries. vegetation may play an important role in the biodegradation of toxic organic chemicals in soil. for petroleum compounds, the presence of rhizosphere micro flora may accelerate biodegradation of the contaminants. in a greenhouse study, petroleum contaminated soil were treated using phytoremediation . the ...

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of 4 herbal products on growth performance of broiler chickens. A total of 150 d – old female broilers (Arbor Acres) were randomly divided into 5 treatments, 3 replicates with 10 birds in each. Treatments included: control (basal diet without feed additives), Digestarom (commercial product of herbal plants), Bioherbal (garlic essence, garden thym...