Over 80 taxa of mostly agriculturally important legumes were surveyed as sources of the metabolites, genistein and daidzein. Remarkably high concentrations (over 2 g.kg-1 dry weight) of the anticancer metabolite, genistein, were found in the leaves of Psoralea corylifolia (Indian bread root). All other legumes, with the exception of fermented soybean miso, had genistein levels < 400 mg.kg-1 dry...

Juniperus drupacea Labill. (Cupressaceae) is a species with ecological and medicinal value. In Europe, it native only in southern Greece, listed as endangered. Due to its uniqueness, this study attempted, for the first time, an vitro propagation effort of Syrian juniper. Explants lateral shoot tips were surface-sterilized cultured on Murashige Skoog (MS) medium. The cultures subcultured MS, woo...

Yongyong Cai,1 Matthias Rosenkranz,1,* Zhen Lei,2,3,4 and Weizhu Bao1,5,† 1Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, 119076, Singapore 2School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China 3Key Laboratory of Nonlinear Mathematical Models and Methods of Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China 4Shanghai Key Laboratory for Contemporar...

A simple, accurate ,precise, sensitive spectrofluorometric method was developed for estimation of psoralen in methanolic extract of Psoralea corylifolia seeds. It showed strong intense blue fluorescence having excitation and emission wavelength 290nm and 427.66 nm, respectively. Linear relationship for the fluorescence intensity was obtained in the range 50-100 μg /mL. Limit of detection and li...

The genus Psoralea, which belongs to the family Fabaceae, comprises ca. 130 species distributed all over the world, and some of the plants are used as folk medicine to treat various diseases. Psoralea corylifolia is a typical example, whose seeds have been widely used in many traditional Chinese medicine formulas for the treatment of various diseases such as leucoderma and other skin diseases, ...

Evaluation of effect of the aqueous, alcohol and chloroform extract of Psoralea corylifolia on sexual behaviour of male albino rats. Plant extracts (aqueous, alcohol and chloroform) at doses of 100, 200 and 400 mg/kg were administrated for 21 days. The female rats involved in mating were made receptive by hormonal treatment. The general mating behaviour, libido and potency along with orientatio...