The resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum (Hochst) is able to survive almost complete tissue dehydration when water is withheld from it, and then can rehydrate rapidly on rewatering. This ability is believed to be the result of the accumulation of sucrose in aerial tissues as a result of metabolism of 2-octulose. In this work the metabolic activity of well-watered Craterostigma plantagi...

The subtribe Eleusininae Dumort. (Poaceae: Chlorid­ oideae: Cynodonteae) is a morphologically diverse group, characterized by having racemose inflorescences (with a few exceptions) and contains about 212 species in 31 genera found primarily in low latitudes in Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. Ten of the genera are currently monotypic (Apochiton C.E.Hubb., Austrochloris Lazarides, Dakn...

To help in the clarification of the taxonomic status of Elymus L. and related genera Agropyron Gaertn., Leymus Hochst., Hordelymus (Jess.) Harz, and Brachypodium P.Beauv., the sequence diversity in the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of nuclear ribosomal DNA was studied. ITS data of 64 Triticeae accessions including 40 Elymus, 12 Agropyron, 7 Leymus, and 4 Hordelymus, and 1 Brachypodiu...

Our study was designed to evaluate antibacterial activities of ethanol extracts from Croton macrostachyus and Justicia schimperiana bark leaf against certain bacterial pathogens such as E. coli O157 H:7 ATCC 25922, Salmonella Typhi 13311, Staphylococcus aureus 25923 Streptococcus pyogenes 196151. Qualitative quantitative methods were followed screen the phytochemicals in plants estimate total p...

grasses are natural homogenous group of plants and belong to the gramineae family (poaceae). the value of grasses to mankind has been recognized since the dawn of human civilization and culture of cereal grasses. in the present study, leptochloa uniflora hochst (poaceae) was subjected to antioxidant and phytochemical profiles using uv-vis, ftir and hptlc. antioxidant assays were studied using d...