BACKGROUND Mindium laevigatum (Vent.) Rech. F. plant grows in central part of Iran. And used by local people as medical plant. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the in vitro antibacterial, antifungal and antioxidant activities of the methanolic extracts of aerial and flower parts of plant. MATERIALS AND METHODS The leaves and stem and flower of bark from M. laevigatum ...

Calli cultures derived from Ruscus aculeatus rhizomes were investigated for their potential to biosynthesize saponins. The capacity of undifferentiated tissues to form steroidal saponins is very limited, but when the calli developed organogenesis, mainly aerial shoots and roots, the saponin production increased significantly. Plantlets regenerated from aerial shoots of Ruscus calli showed a sap...

Zhumeria majdae is a rare an endemic medicinal plantspecies grown wild in Iran. The hydro distilled essential aerial part oil of Z. majdae analysed by GC–MS. Thirty-one compounds representing 95.36% of the aerial part oil, respectively, were identified, of which linalool (48.14%), camphor (20.71%), limonene (4.83%), trans-linalool oxide (2.69%), 3-Octanone (2.34%), terpinene-4...

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843 (J.A., D.S., T.A.D., T.P.D.); Department of Biology, Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610 (S.C., C.S.-S.); Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California 94305 (S.X.); Department of Plant Pathology an...

Yarrow (Achillea spp.) belonging to the family of Asteraceae with useful properties, such as anti-diaphoretic, anti-hemorrhagic, anti-inflammation, anti-biotic, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, Carminative and anti-oxidant effects. The present investigation assessed the morphological diversity of Achillea aucheri, which is indigenous plant from Damavand mountain of Iran. The samples were collected ...

Yarrow (Achillea spp.) belonging to the family of Asteraceae with useful properties, such as anti-diaphoretic, anti-hemorrhagic, anti-inflammation, anti-biotic, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, Carminative and anti-oxidant effects. The present investigation assessed the morphological diversity of Achillea aucheri, which is indigenous plant from Damavand mountain of Iran. The samples were collected ...

Plant Physiology (P.A.W.K., K.P., H.E.N.) and General Zoology/Cellular Neurobiology (J.D.), University of Kaiserslautern, D–67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany; Institut National de la Research Agronomic, UMR1318, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Saclay Plant Sciences, F–78000 Versailles, France (L.S., R.L.H., C.B., M.B., F.C., A.K.); and Umeå Plant Science Center, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå U...