Damage to apple (Malus domestica Borkhausen) by Campylomma verbasci (Meyer), has occurred even when effective insecticides are applied against nymphs present at the petal fall stage. However, insecticide application at pink bud prevents damage more effectively than when the same insecticides are applied at petal fall. We tested the hypothesis that most mullein bug damage occurs between bloom an...

We read with interest the recently published article in the esteemed Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal, by Moein et al., entitled “In vitro antioxidant properties evaluation of 10 Iranian medicinal plants by different methods”(1) in which antioxidant properties of ten Iranian medicinal plants were evaluated with two reliable models. The authors found very high levels of phenolic compounds an...

Bu çalışmada Yalova ve Bursa florasında bulunan endemik, nadir süs bitkisi potansiyeli olan, Verbascum bombyciferum türünün, kullanımı ile ilgili bitkisel özelliklerinin tohumla üretim yönteminin belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. 90.33 cm’lik çiçek ekseni üzerinde çiçeğin az olduğu haziran temmuz aylarında ortalama 59 adet sarı renkli açan, 55 gün çiçekli kalan bir türdür. Özellikle kurakçıl peyzaj, ...

The aim of the study was to determine chromosome number and nuclear DNA content an endemic plant, V. scamandri, using 14-week-old plants germinated from seed genetic stability based on flow cytometry analyses in callus tissue induced MS medium containing 1 mg/L Kin + 2,4-D 9-week-old propagated plants, developed 2 0.1 2,4-D. In mitotic counts showed scamandri had 2n = 16. Flow cytometric analys...

BACKGROUND Soft tissue injury imposes major public health burdens worldwide. The positive effect of China's Tibetan medicine and the Lamiophlomis rotata-based herbal Pain Relieving Plaster (PRP) on healing closed soft tissue injury (CSTI) has been reported. The herbs contained in Plaster are also referred as 'blood-activating and stasis-dispelling' in herbal medicine. The formula of the plaster...