The demand of medicinal plants for consumption is greatly increasing worldwide. conventional breeding programs are generally dependent on the environment prone to biotic and abiotic stresses. These added low content secondary metabolites at harvest, bring need artificial development polyploid individuals as an alternative increase productivity. Consequently, present study evaluated effect diffe...

(2947) Bryophyllum triangulare Blanco, Fl. Filip., ed. 2: 221. 1845 [Angiosp.: Crassul.], nom. utique rej. prop. Typus: non designatus. In 1869, John Gilbert Baker (1834–1920) was appointed as the first assistant in Herbarium of RBG Kew and this capacity he provided with large volumes often undescribed plant material that collected various parts world, including Madagascar. Kalanchoe tomentosa ...

Ninety-five wild forage plants (belonging to 22 species of 18 families) and their corresponding rhizosphere soil samples were collected from wastelands a large-scale abandoned Hg mining region for total (THg) methylmercury (MeHg) analysis. The plant communities on the dominated by Asteraceae, Crassulaceae, Polygonaceae families. THg MeHg concentrations in varied widely range 0.10 13 mg/kg 0.19 ...

Rhodiola rosea L. (Crassulaceae) is a plant that lives at high altitude in Europe and Asia, widely used for its high capacity to increase the organism resistance to different stress conditions. Although a few international literature supports these effects, today R. rosea has become a common component of many dietary supplements also in the Western world. The aim of the present study was to inv...