Sophora comprises 45-50 species of worldwide distribution, but no general proposal as to the evolution of this group has been put forth. We used cladistic relationships of the quinolizidine alkaloids (matrine, sparteine, methylcytisine, anagyrine, and sophoranol) with morphological and palynological characters to suggest a hypothesis of evolutionary and biogeographic relationships. The mainland...

Some species of Vicia genus (Papilionaceae) are used in traditional medicine. In the present study, free radical scavenging and antioxidant activity of aerial parts of V. sojakii were investigated in six different models. IC50 for DPPH radical-scavenging activity was 440.4 ± 13.2 mg mL -1. It showed good nitric oxidescavenging activity between 0.2 and 1.6 mg ml-1. Extract showed very potent Fe2...

Groundnut or peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is one of the important economic oilseed crops of the world. The cultivated groundnut belongs to family Fabaceae, subfamily Papilionaceae. Groundnut is grown in nearly 100 countries. It occupies 21.7 million ha worldwide with a total production of 38.6 million tonnes during 2011 (FAOSTAT, 2011). Among the soil-borne fungal diseases of groundnut, stem ro...