Total DNA was extracted from 41 species (20 genera) of the subfamily Nepetoideae (family Labiatae). Using rbcL-specific primers, the rbcL gene wsa amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequenced directly. RbcL sequences were evaluated with character state (maximum parsimony; PAUP) and distance methods (neighbour-joining; MEGA). In agreement with classical systematics all taxa studied...

Doxorubicin (DOX) is one of the most effective chemotherapeutic agents, but cardiotoxicity limits its clinical use. Although the mechanisms are not entirely understood, reactive oxygen species (ROS) and cardiomyocyte apoptosis appear to be involved in DOX cardiotoxicity. Protection or alleviation of DOX cardiotoxicity can be achieved by administration of natural phenolic compounds via activatin...

The south of the Non-Chernozem Region is north-ern boundary sugar beet production in Russian Fed-eration. An important factor restraining growth crop productivity high weed infestation crops. To devel-op an effective system protection against weeds, it necessary to study their species composition order determine most occurring and noxious species. available data geobotanical surveys since 1930s...

Abstract The environmental benefits of agroforestry systems are well known. However, current knowledge potential allelopathic interactions is inadequate. decrease in soil fertility, the increasingly rhapsodic distribution precipitation, and special metabolism cultivation medicinal aromatic plants all harbingers medicinal-agroforestry systems. authors aimed to discover effects Juglans regia L. P...

15 new native and alien species of vascular plants are reported for the Irkutsk Region, Republic Buryatia, Trans-Baikal Territory: Agropyron michnoi Roshev., Arctopoa schischkinii (Tzvelev) Prob., Arnica intermedia Turcz., Atocion armeria (L.) Fourr., Cynodon dactylon Pers., Dracocephalum argunense Fisch. ex Link, Eragrostis minorHost, Festuca richardsonii Hook., Lespedeza davurica (Laxm.) Schi...