We announce here the draft genome sequence of Methylobacterium radiotolerans strain MAMP 4754, isolated from the roots of the medicinal plant Combretum erythrophyllumM. radiotolerans has a genome size of 7,389,282 bp with 7,166 genes and a G+C content of 70.5%.

Scarlet (Solanum aethiopicum) and gboma (S. macrocarpon) eggplants are important vegetables in Sub-Saharan Africa. Few studies have been made on these crops regarding the diversity of phenolic content and their biological activity. We have studied the reducing activity, the chlorogenic acid and other phenolic acid contents in a collection of 56 accessions of scarlet eggplant, including the four...

BACKGROUND Combretum vendae A.E. van Wyk (Combretaceae) is used for the treatment of bacterial related infections and oxidative related diseases by indigenous people of South Africa. Dried leaves extracts of C. vendae were investigated for bioactivity against a variety of bacterial strains and their antioxidant potential evaluated. MATERIALS AND METHODS Constituents of leaf material were seri...

Six new triterpene glucosides, quadranosides VI-XI (1-6), belonging to three different [ursane- (1-4), oleanane- (5) and lupane-type (6)] triterpene classes, have been isolated from a MeOH extract of the seeds of Combretum quadrangulare KURZ (Combretaceae), together with nine known compounds, rosamutin (7), 28-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-6beta,23-dihydroxytormentic acid (8), arjunetin (9), arjunglu...

Combetrum petrophilum Retief, which occurs as a small tree in isolated areas of Gauteng Province, is one of approximately 99 species of trees and climbers that comprise the subgenus Combretum in Africa (Stace, 1969, Botanical J. Linnean Soc. 62, 131, Carr, 1988). Fresh leaves were collected from the vicinity of the Strydom tunnel in the summer of 1998 and representative voucher specimens (Nos P...

Natural habitat fragmentation and reducing habitat quality have resulted in an increased appearance of Japanese macaques, Macaca fuscata (Gray, 1870), in suburban areas in Japan. To investigate the risk of zoonotic infections, a coprological survey of helminth eggs passed by wild Japanese macaques was carried out in 2009 and 2010 in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Microscopic examination found helmint...

Au Mali, très peu d’études écophysiologiques ont été menées sur les espèces ligneuses notamment à leur stade juvénile. L’objectif de cette étude était d’évaluer le comportement biophysique et écophysiologique cinq en plantation. Pour ce faire, plants trois autochtones (Combretum micranthum, Combretum glutinosum Piliostigma reticulatum) deux exotiques (Acacia auriculiformis Cassia siamea) produi...