I reconstructed a phylogeny of 66 species and varieties of Bursera and 9 outgroup species using sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS), the 5S non-transcribed region (5S-NTS), and the external transcribed region (ETS) of nuclear ribosomal DNA. This study extends a previously proposed parsimony-based phylogenetic study that used the ITS sequences of 57 Bursera species and five...

Myrrh and opopanax has been used throughout history in incense and as a perfume. Since Bible times it has been used for the treatment of wounds. The first attempts to identify content compounds were almost 100 years ago. In this review we discuss the present state of knowledge in the chemistry of substances of Commiphora spp.

Introduction: Stem bark of Lannea kerstingii is used in Togo for its anti-anemic effect. The aim this study was to verify the efficacy extracts L. kerstingii’s treatment anemia and explore mechanism action. Materials Method: stem collected city Kpalimé, located at 120 km northwest Lomé. Hydromethanolic extract obtained by evaporation. Two protocols were carried out 20 twelve-week-old rats that ...

The genus Bursera (Burseraceae) is one of the most diversified and abundant groups of plants of the tropical dry forests of Mexico. In order to provide a basis for better understanding of its evolutionary biology, we reconstructed a phylogeny of 57 species and varieties using the nucleotide sequences of the internal transcribed spacer regions (ITS1 and ITS2) of 18S-26S and the 5.8S coding regio...

Commiphora wightii (Arnott.) Bhandari is an endangered, slow growing medicinal tree. The present investigations are being carried out to evaluate the antifungal medicinal properties of Carica papaya. The effects of different concentrations of alcoholic extract of Commiphora wightii (root, shoot and seed) on the radial growth of plant against the pathogenic fungi viz. Aspergillus niger, Aspergil...

This communication deals with the detailed pharmacognostical aspects of commiphora mukul leaves which include morphological and anatomical characters and preliminary phytochemical analysis of the leaves. The microscopical characters of leaf powder are also reported with its salient features. The fluorescent behaviour of powdered drugs with some chemical reagents is also examined.

An undescribed phyllocoumarin-3-O-α-L-rhamnopyranoside 8 together with catechin 1, catechin-3-O-α-L-rhamnopyranoside 2, catechin-[7,8-bc]-4β-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-dihydro-2(3H)-pyranon 3, 5-O-trans-p-coumaroylquinic acid 4, trans-p-coumaric 5, catechin-[5,6-e]-4β-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-dihydro-2(3H)-pyranon 6, catechin-[5,6-e]-4α-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-dihydro-2(3H)- pyranon 7, phyllocoumarin 9 a...