The proximate composition of seeds and main physicochemical properties and thermal stability of oil extracted from Lannea microcarpa seeds were evaluated. The percentage composition of the seeds was: ash (3.11%), crude oil (64.90%), protein (21.14%), total carbohydrate (10.85%) and moisture (3.24%). Physicochemical properties of the oil were: refractive index, 1.473; melting point, 22.60°C; sap...

A homology-based cloning strategy yielded two cDNA clones designated Am-cam-1 and Am-cam-2, presumably encoding calmodulin protein from a callus culture derived from the leaf tissues of Aquilaria microcarpa. An appreciable increase in the transcriptional activity of Am-cam-1 was reproducibly observed by exposure of the cell culture to methyl jasmonate, as analyzed by a reverse-transcription pol...

Many plant species combine sexual and clonal reproduction. Clonal propagation has ecological costs mainly related to inbreeding depression and pollen discounting; at the same time, species able to reproduce clonally have ecological and evolutionary advantages being able to persist when conditions are not favorable for sexual reproduction. The presence of clonality has profound consequences on t...

Plants used in traditional medicine in Bukoba Rural district in Tanzania were evaluated for their in vitro antimicrobial activities. Plant materials from eight plant species (Harungana madagascariensis (Lam) Poir., Jatropha curcas L., Lantana trifolia L., Plectranthus barbatus Andr., Pseudospondias microcarpa Engl., Psorospermum febrifugum Spach, Teclea nobilis Del. and Vernonia adoensis [Warp....

This study was conducted in the laboratories and greenhouses of Eastern Mediterranean Transitional Zone Agricultural Research Institute between 2018 2020 to identify botanical characteristic PCPM (Prunus cerasifera X Prunus microcarpa), which is natural hybrid (PC) microcarpa (PM), investigate slip production opportunities it at different IBA 1000 mg L-1, 2000 3000 4000 L-1. noticed its environ...

BACKGROUND Limited data is available in Pakistan regarding prevalence of obesity in school going children. The objective of this study was to find out obesity prevalence in school going children in Hazara division. METHODS It was descriptive study. Data of 3200 students was collected over six month period, from Hazara Division. Four schools were selected in each district two for boys and two ...

Industrial pollutants induce the production of toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as O2.-, H2O2, and ·OH in plants, but they have not been well quantified or localized in tissues and cells. This study evaluated the pollutant- (HSO3-, NH4NO3, Al3+, Zn2+, and Fe2+) induced toxic effects of ROS on the aerial roots of Chinese banyan (Ficus microcarpa). Root cell viability was greatly reduced ...

The antiplasmodial, anti-trypanosomal and anti-leishmanial activity of 25 plant extracts obtained from seven Tanzanian medicinal plants: Annickia (Enantia) kummeriae (Annonaceae), Artemisia annua (Asteraceae), Pseudospondias microcarpa (Anacardiaceae), Drypetes natalensis (Euphorbiaceae), Acridocarpus chloropterus (Malpighiaceae), Maytenus senegalensis (Celastraceae) and Neurautanenia mitis (Pa...

We have investigated human male demographic history using 590 males from 51 populations in the Human Genome Diversity Project - Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain worldwide panel, typed with 37 Y-chromosomal Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and 65 Y-chromosomal Short Tandem Repeats and analyzed with the program Bayesian Analysis of Trees With Internal Node Generation. The general patterns we...