We aimed to investigate the inhibitory potential of three medicinal plants (Hedysarum varium, Onobrychis hypargyrea, and Vicia truncatula) from Turkey against key enzymes involved in human pathologies, namely, diabetes (α-amylase and α-glucosidase), neurodegenerative disorders (tyrosinase, acetylcholinesterase, and butyrylcholinesterase), and hyperpigmentation (tyrosinase). The antioxidant pote...

In this study, serum FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) concentrations of prepubertal 48 female Norduz lambs born in Sheep Farm of Agricultural Faculty of Yüzüncü Yıl University were determined. Lambs were born in February, and within a month. After the parturition, live weights of ewes and lambs were recorded. The lambs were kept with their dams for three months. The lambs were fed adlibitum b...

Herein we describe the nests (including construction, closure, orientation, and depth of cells) of the bee Osmia (Ozbekosmia) avosetta Warncke found nesting near Antalya, Turkey, and Sepidan, Iran. Cells are unusual in that they are lined by two layers of colorful flower petals that sandwich a thin middle layer of mud. Analyses of pollen taken from scopal hairs of specimens from the Turkish sit...

According to the research and observations, pest damage of peanut varieties planted in experimental field institute was different. Peanut oil is used all areas national economy for preparation food, canning, varnish, soap, linoleum, perfumery, printing ink, medicine, vegetable or animal fat. Oilseeds are not limited obtaining oil, their pulp a nutritious feed livestock raw material processing i...

The species composition and abundance of the zooplankton community of seven reservoirs of the Paranapanema River, located between 22 degrees 37'-23 degrees 11'S and 48 degrees 55'-50 degrees 32'W, were analysed over four periods, in the year of 1979. The zooplankton community was composed of 76 species of Rotifera, 26 species of Cladocera and 7 species of Copepoda. For a large part of the perio...

The purpose of this research is to capitalise on the potential non-traditional plant species in Republic Moldova from families Asteraceae (cup Silphium perfoliatum; cardoon Cynara cardunculus), Fabaceae (fodder galega Galega orientalis, sand sainfoin Onobrychis arenaria), Hydrophylaceae (phacelia Phacelia tanacetifolia), Malvaceae (curly mallow Malva crispa; Virginia Sida hermaphrodita) and Poa...

The aim of the research is to determine macro (Ca, Mg, P and K), micro (Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn Be) element heavy metal (Al, Cr, Ni, Se Cd) contents some Astragalus taxa collected from nature. Nine (Astragalus gummifer, A. compactus, lineatus var. longidens, aureus, onobrychis, declinatus, lineatus, oocephalus subsp. stachyophorus, inereus) natural areas Bingöl province were used as plant material resea...