Abstract Fruit and vegetable post‐harvest infections are mainly caused by mycotoxin producing fungi. Post‐harvest diseases causing food losses that lead to global economical problems. In this study, fresh samples of fruits vegetables were collected from the local market for shelf‐life evaluation identification spoiling fungal types. Extracts three locally available Prosopis species leaves evalu...

Background: Teucrium Polium and Prosopis Farcta have been traditionally employed in cancer treatment. In this study we evaluated the effects of methanolic extracts of these two plants in HT-29 cells. Methods: IC50s of extracts were obtained via MTT assay and the levels of ROS production, cell death, collapse of mitochondrial membrane potential and Sirt3 enzyme activity were determined. Results:...

Arasbaran is one of the most important protected regions in Iran located in NW of the country and east of E Azarbaijan Province. Several reports have been published on the mycobiota of this region however there is only few records about rust fungi of Arasbaran. Our research on rust fungi of Arasbaran region get started since 2006. During this study, several rust taxa collected and identified fr...

Due to drought, low soil fertility, little rain fall, elevated levels of evapotranspiration, salinization the and a lack ground water, problem desertion agricultural areas has developed in KSA recent years (e.g. Tabuk region). In Saudi Arabia, land abandonment’s negative impact on composition perennial vegetation, quality, structure population was investigated. several abandoned fields research...