This study aimed to determine the effects of plant species on biological parameters Tetranychus urticae Koch and time mite infestation physiology in Ocimum basilicum L., Melissa officinalis L. Salvia Mite induced various levels oxidative stress depending duration infestation. Host plants affected T. life table parameters. The low level susceptibility was characteristic S. officinalis, which app...

Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) is a powerful technique that can be used for global analysis of gene expression. Its chief advantage over other methods is that SAGE does not require prior knowledge of the genes of interest and provides quantitative and qualitative data of potentially every transcribed sequence in a particular tissue or cell type. Furthermore, SAGE can quantify low-abu...

The therapeutic benefits of medicinal plants are well known. Nevertheless, essential oils have been the main focus of antioxidant and antimicrobial studies, remaining scarce the reports with hydrophilic extracts. Thus, the antioxidant and antifungal activities of aqueous (prepared by infusion and decoction) and methanol/water (80:20, v/v) extracts of sage (Salvia officinalis L.) were evaluated ...

Samples of sage leaves, Salvia triloba (Labiatae), growing ~ ~ i l d in different regions of Greece ere analjzed to determine the essential oil content and the physicochemical consram of the oil. The qualitari~le and quantitati~~e ana/ysis by gas-liquid-chron~atograp h ~ . s h o ~ ~ s variations in the qualitjb of the oils and in the amounts of their components. In all samples the basic compone...

Hyperlipidemia is a common metabolic disorder contributing to morbidities and mortalities due to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Conventional antihyperlipidemic drugs have limited efficacies and important side effects, so that alternative lipid lowering agents are needed. Salvia officinalis L. (sage) leaves have PPAR γ agonistic, pancreatic lipase and lipid absorption inhibitory, a...

This study was carried out to evaluate the effects of phenological and diurnal variation on volatile oil content quality Salvia officinalis L. (Lamiaceae) cultivated in Afyonkarahisar/Turkey. The harvesting times based ontogeny were pre-flowering, flowering post-flowering stages. took place three a day, at 6:00 a.m., 2:00 8:00 p.m. results showed that highest obtained stage (2.05%). In general,...

We discuss the problem of information gathering which is that of integrating mul tiple heterogeneous information sources so they appear as a single information source that a user can pose queries on We characterize information gathering as being made up of two subproblems query planning and plan execution Query planning is the process of searching through the space of rewrites of the original q...

To assess antioxidative protection by carnosic acid (CA) in combination with that of other low-molecular weight (M(r)) antioxidants (alpha-tocopherol [alpha-T] and ascorbate [Asc]) in chloroplasts, we measured endogenous concentrations of these antioxidants, their redox states, and other indicators of oxidative stress in chloroplasts of three Labiatae species, differing in their CA contents, ex...