the use of resistant plant cultivars and parasitoids could be an effective strategy in ipm of liriomyza sativa blanchard. cucumber is a preferable host for this insect. in this research, antixenosis resistance of 17 cultivars of cucumber was evaluated to l. sativae under greenhouse condition. results indicated that there were significant differences between cultivars with regard to the number o...

Glandular trichomes are specialized hairs found on the surface of about 30% of all vascular plants and are responsible for a significant portion of a plant's secondary chemistry. Glandular trichomes are an important source of essential oils, i.e., natural fragrances or products that can be used by the pharmaceutical industry, although many of these substances have evolved to provide the plant w...

Nepeta cataria Linn (Family Labiatae), commonly known as catnip, is a herbaceous plant and is a native of southeast Europe, Orient, Southwest Asia and Western temperate Himalayas. Leaves and flowering tops, which contain tannin and volatile oil are aromatic, carminative, tonic, diaphoretic, refrigerant, emmenagogue, antiseptic, stimulant and useful in infantile colic and hysteria. Leaves are de...

The sesquiterpene contents in leaves of wild Rosa rugosa and of sixty-one hybrid rugosas were quantitatively measured by a GC analysis. In this group of samples, the greater the number of glandular trichomes the hybrid rugosas possessed on their leaves, the larger the amount of sesquiterpenes they accumulated. In contrast, those having no leaf glandular hairs contained only a trace amount of se...

In this study, the micromorphology of vegetative and reproductive structures endemic Centaurea glaberrima Tausch subsp. divergens (Vis.) Hayek (Asteraceae), using scanning electron microscope (SEM), is presented for first time. Uniseriate whip-like non-glandular biseriate glandular trichomes are found on surface all aboveground parts (stem, leaves, peduncles, involucral bract). On adaxial leaf ...